Kybernetes: Volume 47 Issue 3

Key success factors for logistics provider enterprises: an empirical investigation in Iran

Ensieh Ahmad Alinejad, Mir Saman Pishvaee, Ali Bonyadi Naeini

This study aims to determine the key success factors of logistics provider enterprises in Iran, a country which has a significant potential for logistics activities among the…

Knowledge acquisition of association rules from the customer-lifetime-value perspective

Cheng-Hsiung Weng, Tony Cheng-Kui Huang

Customer lifetime value (CLV) scoring is highly effective when applied to marketing databases. Some researchers have extended the traditional association rule problem by…

Voluntary disclosure of financial information on the internet by large companies in Slovenia

Tatjana Dolinšek, Andreja Lutar-Skerbinjek

The purpose of this research was to examine the impact of the determinants and characteristics of voluntary internet financial disclosures by large companies in Slovenia. With…

Take full advantage of unlabeled data for sentiment classification

Lei La, Shuyan Cao, Liangjuan Qin

As a foundational issue of social mining, sentiment classification suffered from a lack of unlabeled data. To enhance accuracy of classification with few labeled data, many…

Cluster approach integrating weighted geometric aggregation operator to appraise industrial robot: Knowledge based decision support system

Nitin Kumar Sahu, Atul Kumar Sahu, Anoop Kumar Sahu

Robot appraisement under various dimensions and directions is a crucial issue in real-time manufacturing scenario. Logistic robots are programable-independent movable devices…

Identifying high-value airlines customers for strategies of online marketing systems: An empirical case in Taiwan

Wen-Yu Chiang

The purpose of this study is to discover valuable customers for enterprises. The international market of Taiwan airlines can be enhanced; thus, this study aims at Taiwan’s airline…

The link between state-of-mind and individuals’ willingness to adopt and continue using smartphones

Po-Hong Shih, Keng-Chieh Yang, Chyan Yang

Although numerous studies have examined factors that influence smartphone acceptance and use, few have analyzed cognitive age. This study aims to use the unified theory of…

Measurement of shock effect following change of one-child policy based on grey forecasting approach

Naiming Xie, Ruizhi Wang, Nanlei Chen

This paper aims to analyze general development trend of China’s population and to forecast China’s total population under the change of China’s family planning policy so as to…

Recommender system based on social influence and the virtual house bandwagon effect in virtual worlds

Duen-Ren Liu, Yun-Cheng Chou, Chi-Ching Chung, Hsiu-Yu Liao

Due to the rapidly increasing volume of users and products in virtual worlds, recommender systems are an important feature in virtual worlds; they can help solve information…

An agent-based simulation model for IING’s adoption from a perspective of kinetic energy and potential energy

Li Wang, Qingpu Zhang

Internet-based intangible network good (IING) has revolutionized multiple industries in recent years. This paper aims to reveal the laws of consumer’s decision-making on IING from…