Kybernetes: Volume 42 Issue 6

The project of “general systemology” instigated by Ludwig von Bertalanffy: Genealogy, genesis, reception and advancement

David Pouvreau

The paper aims to present the main perspectives and conclusions of a doctoral research in the history and philosophy of science conducted in France and Austria by the author on…

The adoption of tele-presence systems: Factors affecting intention to use tele-presence systems

Eunil Park

Due to rapid increases in theoretical progress, the paper investigated user perceptions toward tele-presence systems with possible and antecedent motivations that affect attitude…

Intention to use internet marketing: A comparative study between Malaysians and South Koreans

Khong Sin Tan, Siong-Choy Chong, Binshan Lin

This is a pilot study that aims to investigate the factors influencing the intention to use internet marketing among Malaysians and South Koreans, the two fast developing Asian…

The influence of personal and environmental factors on entrepreneurs' performance

Doris Omerzel Gomezelj, Irena Kušce

This paper aims to analyse the determinants of business start-ups and their impact on entrepreneurial performance. The theoretical part indicates that the importance of small- and…

Instruments and methods for the integration of company's strategic goals and key performance indicators

Aleksander Janeš, Armand Faganel

The purpose of this paper is to explore and clarify the cause and effect relations between key performance indicators (KPIs) which significantly contribute to the benefits of the…

Environmental efficiency, advances in environmental technology and total factor of environmental productivity of China

Ma-Lin Song, Youyi Guan, Feng Song

This paper aims to estimate the values of environmental efficiency of each province in China. Subsequently, it analyzes the changes of total factor productivity (TFP) before and…

Alliances in networks: insights from blockmodeling

Yan Cimon

Economic agents in systems (individuals, firms, government organizations, etc.) engage in a wide range of cooperative activities that may be mapped as networks. This paper aims at…

A chaotic particle-swarm krill herd algorithm for global numerical optimization

Gai-Ge Wang, Amir Hossein Gandomi, Amir Hossein Alavi

To improve the performance of the krill herd (KH) algorithm, in this paper, a series of chaotic particle-swarm krill herd (CPKH) algorithms are proposed for solving optimization…

Uncertainty measure for general relation-based rough fuzzy set

Sun Bingzhen, Ma Weimin

– The purpose of this paper is to present a measure method of the uncertainty for rough fuzzy set based on general binary relation.

Editorial

Magnus Ramage, Chris Bissell, David Chapman