Kybernetes: Volume 46 Issue 7

The unexpected cybernetics life of collectivities: the combinatory systems approach

Piero Mella

The purpose of this study is to show how simple “collectivities” of non-interconnected similar agents, which the author has termed “combinatory systems” and which produce…

Modelling identity types through agency: part 2, personal identity and mindsets

Davide Di Fatta, Maurice Yolles

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the personal identity of Donald Trump in the US presidential election using the mindset agency theory framework and content analysis.

A model for project team formation in complex engineering projects under uncertainty: A knowledge-sharing approach

S. Mahdi Hosseini, Peyman Akhavan

This paper aims to develop a model for selecting project team members. In this model, while knowledge sharing among individuals is maximized, the project costs and the workload…

Top 10 data mining techniques in business applications: a brief survey

Wei-Chao Lin, Shih-Wen Ke, Chih-Fong Tsai

Data mining is widely considered necessary in many business applications for effective decision-making. The importance of business data mining is reflected by the existence of…

Project management issues: vulnerability management assessment

Aleksandar Aleksic, Hrvoje Puskaric, Danijela Tadic, Miladin Stefanovic

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the vulnerability of projects implemented in enterprises. The paper focuses on the issue of vulnerability assessment in the planning…

The effect of emotional quotient on organizational citizenship behavior in some Iranian hospitals

Mojtaba Rafiei

The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of emotional quotient (EQ) on the organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) of some Iranian hospital staff in 2015. For this…

Effects of platform quality requirement on sellers

Huijun Hou, Xiaoying Cheng

The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of the requirement on product quality and refund (return service charge).

Similarity-based approach for accurately retrieving similar cases to intelligently handle online complaints

Xiaolan Cui, Shuqin Cai, Yuchu Qin

The purpose of this paper is to propose a similarity-based approach to accurately retrieve reference solutions for the intelligent handling of online complaints.

A method for trust evaluation in the cloud environments using a behavior graph and services grouping

Roghiyeh Hajizadeh, Nima Jafari Navimipour

Cloud services have become very popular among researchers and people recently. In such a scenario, identifying reliable cloud services has become very important. The trust value…

The Bayesian quantile regression and rough set classification: Taiwanese satisfaction level analysis

Shianghau Wu, Jiannjong Guo

In this paper, the authors aim to propose to find the variables that affect the Taiwanese people’s satisfaction level of the general public with the government.