Kybernetes: Volume 42 Issue 3

A comparative study of hybrid machine learning techniques for customer lifetime value prediction

Chih‐Fong Tsai, Ya‐Han Hu, Chia‐Sheng Hung, Yu‐Feng Hsu

Customer lifetime value (CLV) has received increasing attention in database marketing. Enterprises can retain valuable customers by the correct prediction of valuable customers…

Worst‐case regret algorithms for selected optimization problems with interval uncertainty

Jerzy Józefczyk, Marcin Siepak

The purpose of this paper is to consider selected optimization problems with parameter uncertainty. A case is studied when uncertain parameters in functions undergoing the…

Robustness analysis of urban transit network based on complex networks theory

Zhiyun Zou, Yao Xiao, Jianzhi Gao

The purpose of this paper is to attempt to realize the optimization of cascading failure process of urban transit network based on Load‐Capacity model, for better evaluating and…

Collocation method for Fredholm and Volterra integral equations

Jalil Rashidinia, Zahra Mahmoodi

The purpose of this paper is to develop a numerical method based on quintic B‐spline to solve the linear and nonlinear Fredholm and Volterra integral equations.

Application of grey linear control theory for price regulation in China's real estate market

Zheng‐Xin Wang

The purpose of this paper is to propose a grey linear control system for regulating the price of China's real estate and provide the necessary support to assist the relevant…

A control model of the software requirements process

Anthony S. White

Many project failures can be attributed to changes in requirements as the project progresses. The purpose of this paper is to review several system dynamics models of the…

Selection of RFID solution provider: A fuzzy multi‐criteria decision model with Monte Carlo simulation

Kazim Sari

The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive framework to help managers of a business enterprise effectively evaluate candidate RFID solution providers and then select…

Design and optimization of key control characteristics based on improved fruit fly optimization algorithm

Yanfeng Xing

The key control characteristics (KCCs) are very important to control dimensional quality of the final product. The purpose of this paper is to propose optimization algorithm and…

Multi‐objective linear programming with interval coefficients: A fuzzy set based approach

Seyed Hossein Razavi Hajiagha, Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji, Shide Sadat Hashemi

The purpose of this paper is to extend a methodology for solving multi‐objective linear programming (MOLP) problems, when the objective functions and constraints coefficients are…

Towards compatibility between artificial and psychometric personality models

Faisal L. Kadri

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the statistical link between an artificial personality model and the leading psychometric model.

Keypoint based automatic image orientation and skew investigation on tie points

Cihan Altuntas

The relative orientation (RO) is an important step on photogrammetric processes of stereoscopic images. The relationship between the stereoscopic images is constructed by tie…