Kybernetes: Volume 45 Issue 5

What information to measure? How to measure it?

Paolo Rocchi

Thinkers are still debating about the concept of information while engineers prepare astonishing digital appliances. The purpose of this paper is to address the following…

Offering a hybrid approach of data mining to predict the customer churn based on bagging and boosting methods

Mohammad Fathian, Yaser Hoseinpoor, Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli

Churn management is a fundamental process in firms to keep their customers. Therefore, predicting the customer’s churn is essential to facilitate such processes. The literature…

Advance selling strategies for oligopolists by considering product diffusion effect

Xuemei Li, Xiaoyan Xu, Yanhong Sun

– The purpose of this paper is to study the advance selling strategies for oligopolists when considering the product diffusion effect.

Direct force control for human-machine system with friction compensation

Lie Yu, Jianbin Zheng, Yang Wang, Enqi Zhan, Qiuzhi Song

The purpose of this paper is to present a direct force control which uses two closed-loop controller for one-degree-of-freedom human-machine system to synchronize the human…

Study on pedestrian flow evacuation with individual-guidance mechanism

Can Zhong Yao, Xiao Feng Liu, Ji Nan Lin

– The purpose of this paper is to provide the possible and better selection for pedestrian flow evacuation.

Research on energy efficiency evaluation for overhead crane

Yifei Tong, Ruiwen Zhao, Wei Ye, Dongbo Li

Crane plays a very important role in national economy with greatly reduced labor intensity, improved production efficiency and promoted social development as an indispensable…

Ontology-based representation of meteorological disaster system and its application in emergency management: Illustration with a simulation case study of comprehensive risk assessment

Fushen Zhang, Shaobo Zhong, Simin Yao, Chaolin Wang, Quanyi Huang

The purpose of this paper is to make research on causing mechanism of meteorological disaster as well as the components of meteorological disaster system and their semantic…

RFM approach for telecom insolvency modeling

Tomasz S. Zabkowski

The purpose of this paper is to present application of recency, frequency and monetary value (RFM) approach to predict customer insolvency using telecommunication data…

Cooperative grey games and an application on economic order quantity model

Mehmet Onur Olgun, Sırma Zeynep Alparslan Gök, Gültekin Özdemir

– The purpose of this paper is to extend the results of Meca et al. (2004) depending on the grey information revealed by the individual firms.

Mannequin system for the self-training of nurses in the changing of clothes

Taiki Ogata, Ayanori Nagata, Zhifeng Huang, Takahiro Katayama, Masako Kanai-Pak, Jukai Maeda, Yasuko Kitajima, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Kyoko Aida, Noriaki Kuwahara, Jun Ota

For self-training of nursing students, this paper developed a mannequin to simulate and measure the movement of a patient’s arms while nurses changed the patient’s clothes on a…