Kybernetes: Volume 50 Issue 11

A systematic literature review for industry 4.0 maturity modeling: state-of-the-art and future challenges

Kerem Elibal, Eren Özceylan

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a systematic literature review for industry 4.0 maturity modeling research studies to obtain a clear view of the current state-of-the-art…

Beliefs, knowledge and finite provinces of meaning: the case for science and the arts

Pedro Jácome de Moura Jr, Cecília Lauritzen Jácome Campos

This paper aims to build around an abductive argument: the epistemological value of the Arts-derived knowledge is equivalent and may be supplementary to that of science…

Blockchain crowdfunding projects evaluation using GRA-TOPSIS

Chunxia Yu, Yi Leng, Jing Li, Jiacheng Yu

This paper aims to propose a novel blockchain crowdfunding projects evaluation approach using extended techniques for order preferences by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS…

A study on online platforms’ price discrimination behavior and the same-side network effects

Can-Zhong Yao, Yi-Na Mo

The purpose of this paper is to whether competition between platforms can be effective, thus leading to efficient allocations.

A network-based four-phase routing approach of multisource design change propagation on complex products

Na Zhang, Mengze Li, Haibing Ren, Yupeng Li

The development of complex products and systems is a continuously iterative process from customer requirements to a mature design. Design changes derived from multisources occur…

A case for the use of cyber-systemics to combat financial crime in Australia

Brendan Walker-Munro

Financial crime costs the world economy more than $1tn. Yet policing responses continue to apply traditional law enforcement methods to detect, identify and disrupt criminal…

Building a fitting context for knowledge management and innovativeness

Ayşe Günsel, Serdar Bozkurt, Özge Mehtap

In the hyper-dynamic business world of today, innovation has become the lifeblood of organizations. Knowledge management (KM) is widely considered an essential antecedent of…

Modelling the relationship between population density and air quality using fractional Hausdorff grey multivariate model

Kaihe Shi, Lifeng Wu

The proposed model can emphasize the priority of new information and can extract messages from the first pair of original data. The comparison results show that the proposed model…

Agency, ecosystems and sustainable development. Part 1: the ecosystem

Maurice Yolles

This two-part paper is concerned with the creation of a generalised cybernetic agency-based ecosystem. The purpose of the first part is to explore the basis for the creation of an…

Agency, generic ecosystems and sustainable development: Part 2 agency as an ecosystem

Maurice Yolles

This paper is in two parts. The purpose of the first part was to explore the basis for the creation of an agentic ecology theory that could provide a generic multidisciplinary…