Kybernetes: Volume 49 Issue 4

Guest editorial

Georgios Tsaples, Jason Papathanasiou, Stefano Armenia

Study on factors affecting preschool education service quality: An empirical analysis based on fuzzy cognitive map and evidential theory

Lan Xu, Yuting Zhang

This paper aims to explore the critical factors which affect the quality of preschool education service so that targeted and effective measures to improve service quality can be…

PROMETHEE-based ranking of project managers based on the five personality traits

Georgios N. Aretoulis, Jason Papathanasiou, Fani Antoniou

This paper aims to rank and identify the most efficient project managers (PMs) based on personality traits, using Preference Ranking Organization METHod for Enrichment Evaluations…

A fuzzy hybrid approach for ranking and allocation of flare gas recovery methods: A case study of refineries in Iran

Negar Shaaban, Majid Nojavan, Davood Mohammaditabar

The purpose of this paper is to investigate a fuzzy hybrid approach for ranking the flare gas recovery methods and allocating to refineries.

The impact of the Greek economic crisis on the sustainability of the Turkish economy: A GARCH-based decision-making methodology

Kyriaki Argyro Tsioptsia, Ioannis Mallidis, Thomas Siskou, Nikolaos Sariannidis

This paper aims to examine the impact of the Greek economic crisis on the sustainability of the Turkish economy.

Impact of carbon permit allocation rules on incentive contracts for carbon emission reduction

Qinqin Li, Yujie Xiao, Yuzhuo Qiu, Xiaoling Xu, Caichun Chai

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of carbon permit allocation rules (grandfathering mechanism and benchmarking mechanism) on incentive contracts provided by the…

Advertising cooperation of dual-channel low-carbon supply chain based on cost-sharing

Chao Yu, Chuanxu Wang, Suyong Zhang

This paper aims to analyze the impact of the cost coefficient of product emission reduction, coefficient of low-carbon product advertising effort cost, and sharing ratio of…

Information systems strategy in SMEs: critical factors of strategic planning in logistics

Fotis Kitsios, Maria Kamariotou, Michael A. Madas, Konstantinos Fouskas, Vicky Manthou

The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that managers have to take into consideration when they implement the strategic information systems planning (SISP) process to…

Modelling decision making in digital supply chains: insights from the petroleum industry

Florina Livia Covaci, Pascale Zaraté

This paper aims to overcome some of the limitations of previous works regarding automated supply chain formation (SCF). Hence, it proposes an algorithm for automated SCF using…

A risk-based integrated decision-making model for green supplier selection: A case study of a construction company in Spain

Morteza Yazdani, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Dragan Pamucar, Manuel Doval Abad

Supply chain (SC) environment is surrounded by risk variables. This issue is regarded as an emerging and strategic problem which must be resolved by SC executives. The ability to…

Exploiting higher-order dependencies for process analytics: The case for political events’ analysis

Pavlos Delias, Ioannis Kazanidis

The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology to reveal complex events structures in events’ occurrences by analyzing event databases, targeting to systematizing events’…

Dynamic vehicle routing problem considering simultaneous dual services in the last mile delivery

Yandong He, Xu Wang, Fuli Zhou, Yun Lin

This paper aims to study the vehicle routing problem with dynamic customers considering dual service (including home delivery [HD] and customer pickup [CP]) in the last mile…

Normalization techniques for collaborative networks

Nazanin Vafaei, Rita A. Ribeiro, Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Leonilde Rocha Valera

Normalization is a crucial step in all decision models, to produce comparable and dimensionless data from heterogeneous data. As such, various normalization techniques are…

Wiki support for automated definition of software test cases

Leandro Antonelli, Mariángeles Hozikian, Guy Camilleri, Alejandro Fernandez, Julian Grigera, Diego Torres, Pascale Zarate

The design of tests is a very important step in the software development process because it allows us to match the users’ expectations with the finished product. Considered as a…