Kybernetes: Volume 42 Issue 1

Living in a time of change

Magnus Ramage, Chris Bissell, David Chapman

The purpose of this paper is to present a vision for the future development of Kybernetes under a new editorship.

The systemic leaders: new leaders in the global economy

Jon‐Arild Johannessen, Hugo Skålsvik

One of the problems we face in the transition from an industrial society to a global knowledge economy is the need for a new breed of leaders and a new understanding of…

Statistical versus optimal partitioning for block entropies

Ioannis Mistakidis, Kostas Karamanos, Simeon Mistakidis

Given a time‐series, what is the best partitioning of the state space in order to obtain reasonable values for the block entropies? The purpose of this paper is to provide a…

A new method for mining area ecological environment assessment based on credibility measure

Jiqiang Chen, Litao Ma, Hong Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to present a more objective evaluation method for a mining area ecological environment. It proposes the weight of indices with respect to the total…

Multi‐criteria decision making in creative problem solving

Vesna Čančer, Matjaž Mulej

The purpose of this paper is to present the adapted model per phases of the creative problem solving (CPS) process, where multi‐criteria decision making (MCDM) methods are used in…

A two‐layer scheme for membership and classification querying

Heng Ma, Hung‐Yu Cheng

The purpose of this paper is to effectively deal with querying of classification with membership.

On visualizing the number comparison scheme in grey extent analysis

Ozan Çakır

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate an alternative number comparison process to the original procedure utilized under the grey extent analysis.

Degenerated simplex search method to optimize neural network error function

Shamsuddin Ahmed

The purpose of this paper is to present a degenerated simplex search method to optimize neural network error function. By repeatedly reflecting and expanding a simplex, the…

Introducing managers to the VSM using a personal VSM

David T. Robinson

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a short research study that introduced a group of busy managers, in an organisation in turmoil, to Stafford Beer's Viable…

Macroeconomics of privacy and security for identity management and surveillance

Vasilios Katos, Frank Stowell, Peter Bednar

The purpose of this paper is to develop an approach for investigating the impact of surveillance technologies used to facilitate security and its effect upon privacy.

Boosting: Foundations and Algorithms

Robert E. Schapire, Yoav Freund