Kybernetes: Volume 43 Issue 5

A GM(1,N)-based economic cybernetics model for the high-tech industries in China

Zheng-Xin Wang

The purpose of this paper is to propose an economic cybernetics model based on the grey differential equation GM(1,N) for China's high-tech industries and provide the necessary…

A new information security risk analysis method based on membership degree

Jiqiang Chen, Witold Pedrycz, Litao Ma, Chao Wang

In a risk analysis system, different underlying indices often play different roles in identifying the risk scale of the total target in a system, so a concept of discriminatory…

Family business succession as knowledge creation process

Mojca Duh

– The purpose of this paper is to broaden the understanding of family business succession as organizational knowledge creation process.

Dynamic hesitant fuzzy aggregation operators in multi-period decision making

Ding-Hong Peng, Hua Wang

The purpose of this paper is to present some dynamic hesitant fuzzy aggregation operators to tackle with the multi-period decision-making problems where all decision information…

Dimensionality and data reduction in telecom churn prediction

Wei-Chao Lin, Chih-Fong Tsai, Shih-Wen Ke

Churn prediction is a very important task for successful customer relationship management. In general, churn prediction can be achieved by many data mining techniques. However…

Cascade defense in urban road network by inserting modular topologies

Zhiyun Zou, Jinlong Wu, Jianzhi Gao, Xuecai Xu

By aiming at defending cascade failures effectively, the purpose of this paper is to present a strategy of inserting modular topologies into urban road network through reducing…

A service oriented manufacturing grid system with uncertain information

Yifei Tong, Zhaohui Tang, Kaijun Zhou, Ying dong

The increase in demand variability created by manufacturing enterprises presents new challenges for increasing resource usage and sharing flexibility. For this reason, it is of…

Contact positions estimation of sensing structure using adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system

Dalibor Petkovic, Mirna Issa, Nenad D. Pavlovic, Lena Zentner, Md Nor Ridzuan Daud, Shahaboddin Shamshirband

Tactile sensing is the process of determining physical properties and events through contact with objects in the world. The purpose of this paper is to establish a novel design of…

A fuzzy based self-check capable computerized MCDM aid tool

Birol Ulker, Bülent Sezen

The purpose of this paper is to determine as to develop a fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) algorithm with self-check capability that can solve any manufacturing…

A new method for Arabic/Farsi numeral data set size reduction via modified frequency diagram matching

Mohammad Amin Shayegan, Saeed Aghabozorgi

Pattern recognition systems often have to handle problem of large volume of training data sets including duplicate and similar training samples. This problem leads to large memory…

Retraction notice

Editorial

Magnus Ramage, David Chapman and Chris Bissell