Kybernetes: Volume 45 Issue 1

2-tuple linguistic Muirhead mean operators for multiple attribute group decision making and its application to supplier selection

Jindong Qin, Xinwang Liu

The purpose of this paper is to develop some 2-tuple linguistic aggregation operators based on Muirhead mean (MM), which is combined with multiple attribute group decision making…

An ontology-based computer-aided diagnosis system in African traditional medicine: At the Sorcerer’s Stone

Armel Ayimdji Tekemetieu, Souleymane KOUSSOUBE, Laure Pauline FOTSO

The purpose of this paper is to describe an AI (Artificial Intelligence) that can “think like an African traditional doctor”. The system proposes to model and to use attitudes…

Paradigms in information science: Steps towards a systemic paradigm for information science

Daniel J. Adriaenssen, Jon-Arild Johannessen

The purpose of this paper is the conceptual expansion of the science-theoretical foundations of information science, i.e. to develop new thought schemes for information science…

A TOPSIS extension framework for re-conceptualizing sustainability measurement

Anthony Afful-Dadzie, Eric Afful-Dadzie, Charles Turkson

The purpose of this paper is to propose a sustainability measurement and scoring system for assessing the efforts of organizations at meeting sustainability targets. Using…

The interaction matrix: from individual goal-setting to the four modes of coexistence

Helmut Nechansky

The purpose of this paper is to show how individual acts of goal-setting of two persons or systems A and B determine, which modes of coexistence become possible in an interaction…

Path optimization of CNC PCB drilling using hybrid Taguchi genetic algorithm

Dony Hidayat Al-Janan, Tung-Kuan Liu

In this study, the hybrid Taguchi genetic algorithm (HTGA) was used to optimize the computer numerical control-printed circuit boards drilling path. The optimization was performed…

White box, black box and self-organization: A system-to-environment approach to leadership

Krzysztof Kasianiuk

The purpose of this paper is to present two system identification models – “white box” and “black box” – as useful tools that help understand self-organization processes within…

The construction of a mobile business application system for ERP

Yu-Ting Tai, Chia-Hui Huang, Shun-Chieh Chuang

In today’s complicated and competitive business environment, companies commonly use enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to integrate management information and enhance…

A new method for multi-attribute group decision making with triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers

Jiuying Dong, Shuping Wan

The triangular intuitionistic fuzzy number (TIFN) is very useful for expressing ill-known quantity. The purpose of this paper is to develop a new method for multi-attribute group…

An optimization model of the acceptable consensus and its economic significance

Zaiwu Gong, Xiaoxia Xu, Jeffrey Forrest, Yingjie Yang

The purpose of this paper is to construct an optimal resource reallocation model of the limited resource by a moderator for reaching the greatest consensus, and show how to…