Expert Systems - The Journal of Knowledge Engineering, Volume 36

Volume 36, Number 1, February 2019

Original Articles

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  Tirtharaj Dash, Himansu Sekhar Behera:
  A comprehensive study on evolutionary algorithm-based multilayer perceptron for real-world data classification under uncertainty.
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  Szymon Bobek, Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Mateusz Slazynski:
  HEARTDROID - Rule engine for mobile and context-aware expert systems.
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  Fangqing Wei, Jiayun Song, Chuanya Jiao, Feng Yang:
  A modified slacks-based ranking method handling negative data in data envelopment analysis.
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  Emre Çomak:
  A particle swarm optimizer with modified velocity update and adaptive diversity regulation.
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  Ligang Dong, Liujun Tang, Shihuan Liu, Xian Jiang:
  Discovering the associations between test items in an examination.
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  Wei-Chao Lin, Yu-Hsin Lu, Chih-Fong Tsai:
  Feature selection in single and ensemble learning-based bankruptcy prediction models.
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  Harshit Bhardwaj, Aditi Sakalle, Arpit Bhardwaj, Aruna Tiwari:
  Classification of electroencephalogram signal for the detection of epilepsy using Innovative Genetic Programming.
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  Sajjad Shokouhyar, Sudabeh Seifhashemi, Hossein Siadat, Mohammad Milad Ahmadi:
  Implementing a fuzzy expert system for ensuring information technology supply chain.
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  Rasim M. Alguliyev, Ramiz M. Aliguliyev, Nijat R. Isazade, Asad Abdi, Norisma Idris:
  COSUM: Text summarization based on clustering and optimization.
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  Sadegh Niroomand, Ali Mahmoodirad, Sam Mosallaeipour:
  A hybrid solution approach for fuzzy multiobjective dual supplier and material selection problem of carton box production systems.
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  Mohammad Mahdi Nasiri, Mojtaba Ranjbar, Madjid Tavana, Francisco J. Santos-Arteaga, Reza Yazdanparast:
  A novel hybrid method for selecting soccer players during the transfer season.
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  Sunil Kr. Jha, Zhaoqing Pan, Ehsan Elahi, Nilesh V. Patel:
  A comprehensive search for expert classification methods in disease diagnosis and prediction.
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  Sangmin Lee, Seoung Bum Kim:
  Identification of I-equivalent subnetworks in Bayesian networks to incorporate experts' knowledge.
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  Zhang-peng Tian, Ru-Xin Nie, Jian-qiang Wang, Hong-yu Zhang:
  Signed distance-based ORESTE for multicriteria group decision-making with multigranular unbalanced hesitant fuzzy linguistic information.

Volume 36, Number 2, April 2019

Original Articles

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  Amir Hossein Nabizadeh, Alípio Mário Jorge, José Paulo Leal:
  Estimating time and score uncertainty in generating successful learning paths under time constraints.
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  Xiao-Kang Wang, Jian-qiang Wang, Hong-Yu Zhang:
  Distance-based multicriteria group decision-making approach with probabilistic linguistic term sets.
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  Leila Bayoudhi, Najla Sassi, Wassim Jaziri:
  Efficient management and storage of a multiversion OWL 2 DL domain ontology.
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  Xia Shao, Zhiqiang Xie:
  A scheduling algorithm for applications in a cloud computing system with communication changes.
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  Tayyeba Rehman, Sharifullah Khan, Gwo-Jen Hwang, Muhammad Azeem Abbas:
  Automatically solving two-variable linear algebraic word problems using text mining.
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  Priyadarshi Biplab Kumar, Himanshu Rawat, Dayal R. Parhi:
  Path planning of humanoids based on artificial potential field method in unknown environments.
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  Nattane Luiza da Costa, Laura Andrea García Llobodanin, Inar Alves Castro, Rommel M. Barbosa:
  The use of data mining to classify Carménère and Merlot wines from Chile.
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  Liang Dong, Xin Gu, Xingli Wu, Huchang Liao:
  An improved MULTIMOORA method with combined weights and its application in assessing the innovative ability of universities.
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  Adaleta Gicic, Abdulhamit Subasi:
  Credit scoring for a microcredit data set using the synthetic minority oversampling technique and ensemble classifiers.
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  Saibal Majumder, Samarjit Kar, Tandra Pal:
  Rough-fuzzy quadratic minimum spanning tree problem.
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  Yang Liu, Chen Yang, Jian Ma, Wei Xu, Zhongsheng Hua:
  A social recommendation system for academic collaboration in undergraduate research.
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  Thiagarajan Piraisoodi, M. Willjuice Iruthayarajan, Mohaideen Abdul Kadhar Kappuva:
  Multi-objective robust fuzzy fractional order proportional-integral-derivative controller design for nonlinear hydraulic turbine governing system using evolutionary computation techniques.
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  Valerie Tang, Paul K. Y. Siu, King Lun Choy, Hoi Yan Lam, George To Sum Ho, Carman Ka Man Lee, Yung Po Tsang:
  An adaptive clinical decision support system for serving the elderly with chronic diseases in healthcare industry.
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  Hassan Gharoun, Abbas Keramati, Mohammad Mahdi Nasiri, Ali Azadeh:
  An integrated approach for aircraft turbofan engine fault detection based on data mining techniques.
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  Muhammad Afzaal, Muhammad Usman, Alvis Cheuk M. Fong, Simon Fong:
  Multiaspect-based opinion classification model for tourist reviews.

Volume 36, Number 3, June 2019

Special Issue: WorldCist'17 - Fifth world conference on information systems and technologies
Original Articles

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  Xiaohuan Zhang, Zhiqiang Xie, Yu Xin, Jing Yang:
  Time-selective integrated scheduling algorithm with backtracking adaptation strategy.
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  Issam Dagher, Fady Azar:
  Improving the SVM gender classification accuracy using clustering and incremental learning.
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  Tsung-Yi Chen, Hsiang-An Cheng, Yuh-Min Chen:
  Developing a personal value analysis method of social media to support customer segmentation and business model innovation.
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  Andrea Brunello, Fernando Jiménez, Enrico Marzano, Angelo Montanari, Gracia Sánchez, Guido Sciavicco:
  Multiobjective evolutionary feature selection and fuzzy classification of contact centre data.
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  Volkan Yildirim, Sevket Bediroglu:
  A geographic information system-based model for economical and eco-friendly high-speed railway route determination using analytic hierarchy process and least-cost-path analysis.
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  Yan Yang, Junhua Hu, Yongmei Liu, Xiaohong Chen:
  A multiperiod hybrid decision support model for medical diagnosis and treatment based on similarities and three-way decision theory.
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  Inderjeet Singh Dhindsa, Ravinder Agarwal, Hardeep S. Ryait:
  Performance evaluation of various classifiers for predicting knee angle from electromyography signals.
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  Velammal B. L.:
  Typicality-based collaborative filtering for book recommendation.
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  Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros:
  Metaheuristic algorithm to train product and sigmoid neural network classifiers.
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  Duen-Ren Liu, Hsiu-Yu Liao, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yi-Ling Chiu:
  Churn prediction and social neighbour influences for different types of user groups in virtual worlds.
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  Omid Khayat, Hossein Afarideh:
  Performance evaluation of multilayer perceptron, radial basis function, fuzzy inference system, and an adaptively tuned fuzzy wavelet neural network in parameter prediction of multiphase flow measurement instrumentation.
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  Fereshteh Sadat Hoseininejad, Yahya Forghani, Omid Ehsani:
  A fast algorithm for local feature selection in data classification.
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  Majid Naghizadeh, Narges Habibi:
  A model to predict the survivability of cancer comorbidity through ensemble learning approach.
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  Samira Maleki, Ali Ebrahimnejad, Reza Kazemi Matin:
  Pareto-Koopmans efficiency in two-stage network data envelopment analysis in the presence of undesirable intermediate products and nondiscretionary factors.
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  Zhaohui Qu, Qianwen Liu, Chengyu Liu:
  Classification of congestive heart failure with different New York Heart Association functional classes based on heart rate variability indices and machine learning.
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  Muhammad Zubair Asghar, Anum Sattar, Aurangzeb Khan, Amjad Ali, Fazal Masud Kundi, Shakeel Ahmad:
  Creating sentiment lexicon for sentiment analysis in Urdu: The case of a resource-poor language.
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  Aditya Khamparia, Karan Mehtab Singh:
  A systematic review on deep learning architectures and applications.

Editorial

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  Álvaro Rocha, Sajid Anwar:
  The journal of knowledge engineering special issue on WorldCist'17 - fifth world conference on information systems and technologies.

Special Issue Papers

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  Tiago Oliveira, Filipe Gonçalves, Paulo Novais, Ken Satoh, José Neves:
  OWL-based acquisition and editing of computer-interpretable guidelines with the CompGuide editor.
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  João Carneiro, Diogo Martinho, Goreti Marreiros, Paulo Novais:
  How cognitive and affective aspects can influence the outcome of the group decision-making process.
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  Sami J. Habib, Paulvanna Nayaki Marimuthu:
  Analysis of data trust through an intelligent-transparent-trust triangulation model.
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  Brígida Mónica Faria, José Diogo Ribeiro, A. Paulo Moreira, Luís Paulo Reis:
  Boccia game simulator: Serious game adapted for people with disabilities.
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  Korhan Günel, Kazim Erdogdu, Refet Polat, Yasin Özarslan:
  An empirical study on evolutionary feature selection in intelligent tutors for learning concept detection.
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  Tânia Rocha, Cirano Gonçalves, Hugo Fernandes, Arsénio Reis, João Barroso:
  The AppVox mobile application, a tool for speech and language training sessions.

Volume 36, Number 4, August 2019

Special Issue: Soft Computing Applications in the Field of Industrial and Environmental Enterprises
Original Articles

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  Shruti Aggarwal, Paramvir Singh:
  Cuckoo and krill herd-based k-means++ hybrid algorithms for clustering.
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  Antonio R. Anaya, Manuel Luque, Emilio Letón, Félix Hernández-del-Olmo:
  Automatic assignment of reviewers in an online peer assessment task based on social interactions.
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  Bruno Eustaquio de Carvalho, Ana Sara Costa, Rui Cunha Marques, Oscar Cordeiro Netto:
  The presence of governance: A system assessment based on innovative core regulatory principles for Brazilian regulators.
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  Minghui Qian, Yuxi Wang, Wei Xu, Hepu Deng:
  An improved TOPSIS approach for the competitiveness analysis of provincial information resource industries in China.
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  Sheng Ang, Qingxian An, Feng Yang, Xiang Ji:
  Target setting with minimum improving costs in data envelopment analysis: A mixed integer linear programming approach.
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  Iram Fatima, Burhan Ud Din Abbasi, Sharifullah Khan, Majed Al-Saeed, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Rafia Mumtaz:
  Prediction of postpartum depression using machine learning techniques from social media text.
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  Hosein Naderpour, Kohei Nagai, Mohammad Haji, Masoomeh Mirrashid:
  Adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference modelling and sensitivity analysis for capacity estimation of fiber reinforced polymer-strengthened circular reinforced concrete columns.
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  Xindong Peng, Florentin Smarandache:
  Novel neutrosophic Dombi Bonferroni mean operators with mobile cloud computing industry evaluation.
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  Syed Asif Raza, Lukman Thalib, Jassim Al Suwaidi, Kadhim Sulaiman, Wael Almahmeed, Haitham Amin, Khalid F. AlHabib:
  Identifying mortality risk factors amongst acute coronary syndrome patients admitted to Arabian Gulf hospitals using machine-learning methods.
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  Saad M. Darwish, Tamer A. Shendi, Ahmed Younes:
  Quantum-inspired genetic programming model with application to predict toxicity degree for chemical compounds.
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  Zhang-peng Tian, Ru-Xin Nie, Jian-qiang Wang, Lin Li:
  Group multigranular linguistic QFD for prioritizing service designs with combined weighting method.
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  Khalid A. Eldrandaly, Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Laila Abdel-Fatah:
  Grid quorum-based spatial coverage in mobile wireless sensor networks using nature-inspired firefly algorithm.
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  Yun Jing, Yingke Liu, Zhenhua Zhang, Yunhan Su:
  Passenger travel behaviour on Chinese high-speed railways using machine learning based on revealed-preference data.
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  Guo Zhang, Jian-qiang Wang, Tie-Li Wang:
  Multi-criteria group decision-making method based on TODIM with probabilistic interval-valued hesitant fuzzy information.
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  Xiaoqi Zhang, Bengang Gong, Feng Yang, Sheng Ang:
  A stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis-evidential reasoning method for uncertain multiattribute decision-making problems.
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  Harish Garg, Kamal Kumar:
  Multiattribute decision making based on power operators for linguistic intuitionistic fuzzy set using set pair analysis.
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  Dipjyoti Bisharad, Rabul Hussain Laskar:
  Music genre recognition using convolutional recurrent neural network architecture.
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  Kevin C. Moffitt, Daniel E. O'Leary:
  Gathering and evaluating innovation ideas using crowdsourcing: Impact of the idea title and the description on the number of votes in each phase of a two-phase crowdsourcing project.
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  Xia Shao, Yu Xin:
  A scheduling algorithm based on the singular value decomposition heuristic method in a distributed manufacturing system.

Guest Editorial

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  Alfredo Jiménez, Álvaro Herrero:
  Soft computing applications in the field of industrial and environmental enterprises.

Special Issue Papers

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  Esteban Jove, José Luís Casteleiro-Roca, Héctor Quintián, Juan Albino Méndez Pérez, José Luís Calvo-Rolle:
  A fault detection system based on unsupervised techniques for industrial control loops.
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  José F. Torres, Alicia Troncoso, Irena Koprinska, Zheng Wang, Francisco Martínez-Álvarez:
  Big data solar power forecasting based on deep learning and multiple data sources.
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  Ji-Yoon Kim, Sung-Bae Cho:
  Predicting repayment of borrows in peer-to-peer social lending with deep dense convolutional network.
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  Leyre Torre-Tojal, José Manuel López-Guede, Manuel Graña Romay:
  Estimation of forest biomass from light detection and ranging data by using machine learning.
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  Alberto Rivas, Pablo Chamoso, Alfonso González-Briones, Roberto Casado-Vara, Juan Manuel Corchado:
  Hybrid job offer recommender system in a social network.

Volume 36, Number 5, October 2019

Special Issue: Multi-modal information learning and analytics of cross-media big data
Original Articles

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  Ángel Arcos-Vargas, Fernando Nuñez, Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros:
  Bargains in the diamond market? How to take advantage from online information.
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  Saeed Yousefi, Roya Soltani, Ali Bonyadi Naeini, Reza Farzipoor Saen:
  A robust hybrid artificial neural network double frontier data envelopment analysis approach for assessing sustainability of power plants under uncertainty.
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  J. Frank Vijay:
  Cloud data analysis using a genetic algorithm-based job scheduling process.
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  F. David de la Peña Esteban, Juan Alfonso Lara Torralbo, David Lizcano, María A. Martínez Rey:
  Expert system for problem solving in distance university education: The successful case of the subject "operations management".
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  Thien Binh Nguyen, Tran Cong Doi, Thanh Tho Quan, Minh Hai Nguyen, Tuan Anh Le:
  MarCHGen: A framework for generating a malware concept hierarchy.
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  Shiling Song, Sheng Ang, Feng Yang, Qiong Xia:
  An stochastic multiattribute acceptability analysis-based method for the multiattribute project portfolio selection problem with rank-level information.
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  Anton Kocheturov, Petar Momcilovic, Azra Bihorac, Panos M. Pardalos:
  Extended vertical lists for temporal pattern mining from multivariate time series.

Editorial

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  Zheng Xu, Yunhuai Liu:
  Special issue on "Multi-modal information learning and analytics of cross-media big data".

Special Issue Papers

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  Guiyan Zhu, Xiaomeng Ma, Benfa Liu:
  Research on the mechanism of knowledge and intelligence sharing in enterprises under big data: From the perspective of status-striving motivation and opinion dynamics.
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  Honghua He:
  The parallel corpus for information extraction based on natural language processing and machine translation.
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  Fei Zhang:
  Modular configuration of service elements based on the improved K-means algorithm.
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  Yong Zhou, Haizhen Wu:
  Dynamic analysis and simulation study of knowledge flow under the perspective of industrial transfer.
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  Feng Yang:
  Variable weight semantic graph-based ontology mapping method.
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  Jiuhe Wang, Lin Liu:
  Study on the mechanism of customers' participation in knowledge sharing.

Volume 36, Number 6, December 2019

Original Articles

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  Jiayun Song, Fangqing Wei, Junfei Chu, Qingyuan Zhu, Feng Yang:
  Allocating natural resource reduction amounts: A data envelopment analysis based-approach considering production technology heterogeneity.
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  Snezana Nestic, Jesús F. Lampón, Aleksandar Aleksic, Pablo Cabanelas, Danijela Tadic:
  Ranking manufacturing processes from the quality management perspective in the automotive industry.
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  Vera L. Miguéis, Ana S. Camanho, João Falcão e Cunha:
  Evaluating the short-term effect of cross-market discounts in purchases using neural networks: A case in retail sector.
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  Walid Abdelfattah:
  Data envelopment analysis with neutrosophic inputs and outputs.
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  Mohammad Mahdi Zabihi Shesh Poli, Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli, Ali Moarefianpour:
  Stability analysis in identification of interval type-2 adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system: Contribution to a novel Lyapunov function.
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  Bilal Ervural, Özgür Kabak:
  A cumulative belief degree approach for group decision-making problems with heterogeneous information.
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  Iman Chatterjee, Manosij Ghosh, Pawan Kumar Singh, Ram Sarkar, Mita Nasipuri:
  A clustering-based feature selection framework for handwritten Indic script classification.
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  Wenfeng Liu, Peiyu Liu, Yuzhen Yang, Jing Yi, Zhenfang Zhu:
  A embedding model for text classification.
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  Mohammad Barati, Mehrdad Jalali, Yahya Forghani:
  Alternating optimization to solve penalized regression-based clustering model.
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  Mohammed Al-Maitah:
  Text analytics for big data using rough-fuzzy soft computing techniques.
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  Jorge Rodríguez-Ruiz, Raúl Monroy, Miguel Angel Medina-Pérez, Octavio Loyola-González, Bárbara Cervantes:
  Cluster validation in clustering-based one-class classification.
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  Ahmad Hassanpour, Majid Moradikia, Hojjat Adeli, Seyed Raouf Khayami, Pirooz Shamsinejadbabaki:
  A novel end-to-end deep learning scheme for classifying multi-class motor imagery electroencephalography signals.