Kybernetes: Volume 45 Issue 7

Limited public resources allocation model based on social fairness using an extended VIKOR method

Wenqi Jiang

Different from manufacturing resources allocation problems, the prices and amounts of limited public service resources could not be changed with the consumers’ requirements and…

The use of distinction in the process of communication: Aspects of a system-theory of communication

Daniel Joh. Adriaenssen, Dagny Johannessen, Jon-Arild Johannessen

The purpose of this paper is to improve the theoretical understanding of the communicative processes in social systems.

Using grey incidence to analyze the energy audit reports and rough set for rule extraction

Tooraj Karimi, Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the energy audit reports in order to define the most favorable factors affecting energy consumption of buildings. Since energy audit of…

Adaptive SLA mechanism for service sharing in virtual environments

Yong Yin, Jian Zhou, Chaoyong Zhang, Dejun Chen

The purpose of this paper is to discuss an adaptive SLA mechanism for service sharing in virtual environment, which can organize and govern QoS items in terms of service execution…

Developing an instrument for measuring the effects of heuristics on investment decisions

Kadir C. Yalcin, Ekrem Tatoglu, Selim Zaim

Based on a thorough review and synthesis of the literature in behavioral finance, the purpose of this paper is to develop three measures of heuristics that tend to influence…

Hybrid cloud entropy systems based on Wiener process

Rabha Waell Ibrahim, Abdullah Ghani

The paper outlines a self-contained scheme for multiple networking agents at a location. It proposes a mathematical model for intelligent cloud entropy management systems. The…

The competition between B2C platform and third-party seller considering sales effort

Kaiying Cao, Ping He

By studying the competition between a B2C platform and a third-party seller, the purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare their optimal decisions and profits between cases…

The dynamic behaviors of a supply chain with stock-dependent demand considering competition and deteriorating items

Qiuxiang Li

The purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamics and stability of switched supply system considering the influence of the retailer competition and deteriorating items.

Performance evaluation of different customer segmentation approaches based on RFM and demographics analysis

Peiman Alipour Sarvari, Alp Ustundag, Hidayet Takci

The purpose of this paper is to determine the best approach to customer segmentation and to extrapolate associated rules for this based on recency, frequency and monetary (RFM…

Complexity, network theory, and the epistemological issue

Fulvio Mazzocchi

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to refine the conceptual framework of complexity. For such a purpose, a number of epistemologically oriented remarks are provided…