Kybernetes: Volume 46 Issue 4

Causality in complex systems

Jose-Luis Usó-Domenech, Josué Antonio Nescolarde-Selva, Miguel Lloret-Climent

The purpose of this paper is the study of the causal relationship. The concept called “naive” causality can be stated more generally as the belief (or knowledge) that results…

Knowledge sharing barriers in software development teams: a multiple case study in Turkey

Ali E. Akgün, Halit Keskin, Hayat Ayar, Zeki Okunakol

Changing customer demands, needs and desires; emerging technologies; and increasing competition among firms force software development teams to develop and then implement new…

Ethical culture as a predictor of late payments

Tanja Salamon, Borut Milfelner, Jernej Belak

Poor payment discipline has been a constant problem faced by European companies and has only deteriorated with the current global economic crisis. Even though new legislation has…

A cybernetic theory for EEG biofeedback

Kip Errett Patterson

The purpose of this paper is to present a theory that applies Miller et al.’s (1960) Test-Operate-Test-Exit (TOTE) concept to the psychophysiology involved in…

Emergency materials transportation model in disasters based on dynamic programming and ant colony optimization

Jia Liu, Kefan Xie

While scheduling and transporting emergency materials in disasters, the emergency materials and delivery vehicles are arriving at the distributing center constantly. Meanwhile…

Measurement of knowledge diffusion efficiency for the weighted knowledge collaboration networks

Jiafu Su, Yu Yang, Na Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to propose a valid and quantitative measurement method of knowledge diffusion efficiency for the knowledge collaboration networks (KCNs).

Deep learning architecture using rough sets and rough neural networks

Yasser F. Hassan

This paper aims to utilize machine learning and soft computing to propose a new method of rough sets using deep learning architecture for many real-world applications.

Imprecise DEA framework for evaluating health-care performance of districts

E. Ertugrul Karsak, Melis Almula Karadayi

This paper aims to address performance measurement in the health-care sector, which gains increasing importance for most countries because growing health expenditures and…

A fuzzy superiority and inferiority ranking based approach for IT service management software selection

Saeed Rouhani

Information technology service management (ITSM) has become a major IT department management system in organizations. Successful implementation of ITSM depends on select adequate…