Kybernetes: Volume 42 Issue 4

The cybernetics of authenticity

Jan Bartscht

Research was conducted in order to identify behaviours that improve a system viability in a complex, chaotic and volatile world. The purpose of this paper is to explain why…

Complexity and intellectual capital in organisations

Mario Iván Tarride, Patricio Osorio‐Vega

This paper offers a framework based on the key principles of the complexity paradigm proposed by Edgar Morin to review what can be considered the dominant approach towards…

The impact of social media to value added in knowledge‐based industries

Vasja Roblek, Mirjana Pejić Bach, Maja Meško, Andrej Bertoncelj

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the significance of Web 2.0 and social media for organizational development and adaptation to an ever‐changing business environment and…

A framework to evaluate the complexity of home care services

Evren Sahin, Ludovic‐Alexandre Vidal, Emna Benzarti

The purpose of this paper is to assess the potential factors that may generate complexity in managing operations in home care (HC) organizations. Hence, a framework which might…

Cybernetic systems in defence management applications

Štefan Bojnec

The purpose of this paper is to introduce cybernetic systems in defence management applications, to meet new challenges of the information society and use of system modelling for…

Wavelet de‐noising techniques with power spectral density to vibration signal

Weizhen Chen, Bingwen Wang, Hao Zhan, Long Zhou

Denoising of the vibration signal is crucial to identify a structure's damage. Based on noise frequency character, the “real” vibration signal can be gotten. The purpose of this…

An investigation of K‐means clustering to high and multi‐dimensional biological data

Barileé B. Baridam, M. Montaz Ali

The K‐means clustering algorithm has been intensely researched owing to its simplicity of implementation and usefulness in the clustering task. However, there have also been…

Generalising the Kőnig‐Egerváry theorem

Alex Andrew

The purpose of this paper is to consider extension of the Kőnig‐Egerváry theorem to apply to matrices of dimensionality greater the two. It is shown that the theorem holds for…

Solving nonlocal boundary value problems for first‐ and second‐order differential equations by the Adomian decomposition method

Lazhar Bougoffa, Randolph C. Rach

The purpose of this paper is to present a new approach to solve nonlocal boundary value problems of linear and nonlinear first‐ and second‐order differential equations subject to…

Editorial

Magnus Ramage, David Chapman, Chris Bissell