Kybernetes: Volume 43 Issue 7

Product image allocation and inventory control of online stores

Yan-Kwang Chen, Fei-Rung Chiu, Yueh-Chuen Huang, Chien-Hua Yeh

This study assumes image size and location, product substitution, and product supply to be factors influencing the purchase decision. Under such assumption, shelf-space allocation…

The impact of social cues and effectiveness in check-in advertising

Chi-Lun Liu

Check-in based advertising is growing dramatically as the popularity of social media increases. The purpose of this paper is to explore which social cues are appropriate for…

An improved background subtraction method for HRI based on image parameters

Qiongxiong Ma, Tie Zhang

Background subtraction is a particularly popular foreground detection method, whose background model can be updated by using input images. However, foreground object cannot be…

Performance evaluation of a hybridized simulated annealing algorithm for flow shop scheduling under a dynamic environment

Robin Kumar Samuel, P. Venkumar

The purpose of this paper is to propose a hybrid-simulated annealing algorithm to address the lacunas in production logistics. The primary focus is laid on the basic understanding…

Conflict analysis model and application based on intuitionistic fuzzy number

Yong Liu, Yi Lin, Jian Liu

– The purpose of this paper is to establish a novel conflict analysis model so that it can well describe and deal with the real conflict problems.

Mixed modified fruit fly optimization algorithm with general regression neural network to build oil and gold prices forecasting model

Wen-Tsao Pan

When facing a clouded global economy, many countries would increase their gold reserves. On the other hand, oil supply and demand depends on the political and economic situations…

Interval grey numbers based multi-attribute decision making method for supplier selection

Naiming Xie, Jianghui Xin

The purpose of this paper is to study a novel grey possibility degree approach, which is combined with multi-attribute decision making (MADM) and applied MADM model for solving…

The allocation of sub-decision making units to parallel fuzzy network systems

A. Hadi-Vencheh, Zahra Ghelej Beigi, Kobra Gholami

The purpose of this paper is to consider the following problem; if the manager of the parallel network systems wants to add new sub-decision making units (sub-DMUs) to each…

Two-stage credit rating prediction using machine learning techniques

Hsu-Che Wu, Ya-Han Hu, Yen-Hao Huang

Credit ratings have become one of the primary references for financial institutions to assess credit risk. Conventional credit rating approaches mainly concentrated on two-class…

Modeling credit scoring using neural network ensembles

Chih-Fong Tsai, Chihli Hung

Credit scoring is important for financial institutions in order to accurately predict the likelihood of business failure. Related studies have shown that machine learning…

Editorial

Magnus Ramage, David Chapman and Chris Bissell