Kybernetes: Volume 43 Issue 8

HDR imaging for feature tracking in challenging visibility scenes

Lounis Chermak, Nabil Aouf, Mark Richardson

In visual-based applications, lighting conditions have a considerable impact on quality of the acquired images. Extremely low or high illuminated environments are a real issue for…

A new classification strategy for human activity recognition using cost sensitive support vector machines for imbalanced data

Bilal M’hamed Abidine, Belkacem Fergani, Mourad Oussalah, Lamya Fergani

The task of identifying activity classes from sensor information in smart home is very challenging because of the imbalanced nature of such data set where some activities occur…

Coarticulation and speech synchronization in MPEG-4 based facial animation

Ricardo Leandro Parreira Duarte, Abdennour El Rhalibi, Madjid Merabti

– The purpose of this paper is to present a novel coarticulation and speech synchronization framework compliant with MPEG-4 facial animation (FA).

Semantic Category theory and Semantic Intertwine: the anathema of mathematics

John St Quinton

The recent scientific observation that human information processing involves four independent data types, has pinpointed a source of fallacious arguments within many domains of…

Tracking progress of African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) using fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method

Anthony Afful-Dadzie, Eric Afful-Dadzie, Stephen Nabareseh, Zuzana Komínková Oplatková

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new assessment methodology for the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) using fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method (FCEM) and the Delphi…

Service branding: suggesting an interactive model of service brand development

Hugo Skaalsvik, Bjørn Olsen

– The purpose of this paper is to suggest an interactive model of service brand development.

Research on the relationship between air quality and economy development in major cities of China

Xin Ma, Rubing Ge, Li Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to build a support vector machine (SVM) model to evaluate the city air quality level, using the three main air pollutants selected as evaluation…

Enactive management: dancing with uncertainty and complexity

Osvaldo García de la Cerda, María Soledad Saavedra Ulloa

The purpose of this paper is to present and explain an enactive tool to be used by managers to move effectively in the context of high uncertainty and complexity that…

Containment control of second-order multi-agent systems with directed topology and time-delays

Bin Qi, Xuyang Lou, Baotong Cui

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the impacts of the communication time-delays to the distributed containment control of the second-order multi-agent systems with directed…

Job scheduling in the Expert Cloud based on genetic algorithms

Nima Jafari Navimipour, Amir Masoud Rahmani, Ahmad Habibizad Navin, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

Expert Cloud as a new class of Cloud computing systems enables its users to request the skill, knowledge and expertise of people by employing internet infrastructures and Cloud…

Editorial

Magnus Ramage, David Chapman and Chris Bissell

Cybernetic Intelligent Systems 2012

Dr Mourad Oussalah and Professor Ali Hessami