Kybernetes: Volume 45 Issue 9

Colleague recommender system in the Expert Cloud using features matrix

Saeedeh Hazratzadeh, Nima Jafari Navimipour

Expert Cloud as a new class of cloud systems enables its users to request and share the skill, knowledge and expertise of people by employing internet infrastructures and cloud…

Broad-spectrum analysis on some special systems

Xiaogang Wang

In daily life, some special systems are difficult to handle, such as indistinct systems (the reverse of explicit systems), history systems, future systems, infinite systems, etc…

Cooperation strategies for e-commerce platforms with seller classification

Ya’nan Ji, Xiaoyan Xu, Yanhong Sun

The purpose of this paper is to study the cooperation and pricing strategies for e-commerce platforms when considering seller classification.

On the fit and forecasting performance of grey prediction models for projecting educational attainment

Hui-Wen Vivian Tang, Tzu-chin Rojoice Chou

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the forecasting performance of grey prediction models on educational attainment vis-à-vis that of exponential smoothing combined with…

The dynamic equilibrium and simulation of mobile internet platform innovation ecosystem: A symbiotic evolution model

Yanhong Yao, Huiping Zhou

The purpose of this paper is to build a symbiotic evolution model to analyze the symbiotic modes and dynamic equilibrium of mobile internet platform innovation ecosystem (MIPIE…

Lean Six Sigma education in manufacturing companies: the case of transitioning markets

Klemen Kavčič, Dušan Gošnik

In the global economy, managers are constantly innovating with their use of available Lean Six Sigma (LSS) tools. Some factors, such as training and the right educational goals…

The imperviance of conceptual systems: cognitive and moral aspects

Steven E. Wallis, Vladislav Valentinov

The complexity of the modern world calls for the increasingly complex (i.e. containing more concepts) and systemic (i.e. containing more causal connections between the concepts…

Advertising decisions of new and remanufactured products under direct sales model

Wei Li, Mi Ouyang

There are manufacturer, remanufacturer and advertising agency in the study. The first manufacturer is a traditional manufacturer that produces new product, while the second one…

Effectiveness of the GM(1,1) model on linear growth sequence and its application in global primary energy consumption prediction

Chaoqing Yuan, Ding Chen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of GM(1,1) model on linear growth sequences (LGS) by random experiments and global primary energy consumption is…

An interval type-2 fuzzy ANP approach to evaluate enterprise technological innovation ability

Tong Wu, Xinwang Liu

The purpose of this paper is to overcome the drawbacks of analytic hierarchy process in solving complex decision-making problems, especially for the evaluation of enterprise…