Complex Systems: Solutions and Challenges in Economics, Management and Engineering: Dedicated to Professor Jaime Gil Aluja

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Does Policy Consistency Affect Economic Growth?  (Finn E. Kydland)....Pages 3-18
 Perception and Reality of the Spanish Economy  (Fernando Casado Juan)....Pages 19-33
 The Virtual Company as a Value Generator in the New Economy  (Mario Aguer Hortal)....Pages 35-44
 The Origin of the Legitimacy of Organizations and Their Determining Factors  (Camilo Prado-Román, Francisco Díez-Martín, Alicia Blanco-González, Alberto Prado-Román)....Pages 45-62
 A Model for the Management in Organizations Based on People and Knowledge: Aspects to Be Considered in Its Design  (José María de-Goñi-Oslé, Arturo Rodríguez-Castellanos)....Pages 63-82
Front Matter ....Pages 83-83
 Six Experimental Activities to Introduce the Theory of Fuzzy Sets  (Joan Carles Ferrer Comalat, Xavier Bertran Roura, Salvador Linares Mustarós, Dolors Corominas Coll)....Pages 85-107
 Fuzzy Decision Making System for Model-Oriented Academia/Industry Cooperation: University Preferences  (Galyna Kondratenko, Yuriy Kondratenko, Ievgen Sidenko)....Pages 109-124
 Towards the Convergence in Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Based Decision-Making Models  (Leonardo Concepción, Gonzalo Nápoles, Isel Grau, Koen Vanhoof, Rafael Bello)....Pages 125-129
 Eliciting Fuzzy Preferences Towards Health States with Discrete Choice Experiments  (Michał Jakubczyk, Bogumił Kamiński, Michał Lewandowski)....Pages 131-147
 The Soft Consensus Model in the Multidistance Framework  (Silvia Bortot, Mario Fedrizzi, Michele Fedrizzi, Ricardo Alberto Marques Pereira, Thuy Hong Nguyen)....Pages 149-163
 Fuzzy Multi-criteria Decision Making Methods Applied to Usability Software Assessment: An Annotated Bibliography  (Yamilis Fernández-Pérez, Ailyn Febles-Estrada, Carlos Cruz, José Luis Verdegay)....Pages 165-189
 Production Systems Optimization Using Hierarchical Planning  (F. González Santoyo, B. Flores Romero, A. M. Gil Lafuente, J. Flores Juan, R. Chávez Rivera)....Pages 191-199
 Mathematical Model and Parametrical Identification of Ecopyrogenesis Plant Based on Soft Computing Techniques  (Yuriy P. Kondratenko, Oleksiy V. Kozlov, Galyna V. Kondratenko, Igor P. Atamanyuk)....Pages 201-233
Front Matter ....Pages 235-235
 Fuzzy Data Processing Beyond Min t-Norm  (Andrzej Pownuk, Vladik Kreinovich, Songsak Sriboonchitta)....Pages 237-250
 Detecting Changes in Time Sequences with the Competitive Detector  (Leszek J. Chmielewski, Arkadiusz Orłowski)....Pages 251-267
 Deep Learning Architecture for High-Level Feature Generation Using Stacked Auto Encoder for Business Intelligence  (Vikas Singh, Nishchal K. Verma)....Pages 269-283
 Comparison of Type-2 Fuzzy Integration for Optimized Modular Neural Networks Applied to Human Recognition  (Daniela Sánchez, Patricia Melin, Oscar Castillo)....Pages 285-302
Front Matter ....Pages 303-303
 Fuzzy Measure of National Sustainable Development Aggregate Index  (Gorkhmaz Imanov)....Pages 305-329
 A Dynamic Game for a Sustainable Supply Chain Management  (Massimiliano Ferrara, Bruno Antonio Pansera)....Pages 331-348
 Pichat’s Algorithm for the Sustainable Regional Analysis Management: Case Study of Mexico  (Ingrid Nineth Pinto López, Anna María Gil Lafuente, Guillermo Sánchez Flores)....Pages 349-363
 Companies’ Selection Methods for Inclusion in Sustainable Indices: A Fuzzy Approach  (Vicente Liern, Blanca Pérez-Gladish)....Pages 365-380
Front Matter ....Pages 381-381
 About Formal Construction of Financial Analysis  (Alfonso M. Rodríguez)....Pages 383-397
 Stock Returns Forecast: An Examination By Means of Artificial Neural Networks  (Martín Iglesias Caride, Aurelio F. Bariviera, Laura Lanzarini)....Pages 399-410
 Persistent Correlations in Major Indices of the World Stock Markets  (Maciej Janowicz, Leszek J. Chmielewski, Joanna Kaleta, Luiza Ochnio, Arkadiusz Orłowski, Andrzej Zembrzuski)....Pages 411-422
 Forgotten Effects in Exchange Rate Forecasting Models  (Ezequiel Avilés Ochoa, Ernesto León Castro, Ana María Gil Lafuente, José María Merigo Lindahl)....Pages 423-437
 The Behaviour of Non-surviving Spanish Funds According to Their Investment Objectives  (Antonio Terceño, M. Gloria Barberà-Mariné, Laura Fabregat-Aibar, Maraia Teresa Sorrosal-Forradellas)....Pages 439-450
Front Matter ....Pages 451-451
 Management System for Agricultural Enterprise on the Basis of Its Economic State Forecasting  (Igor Atamanyuk, Yuriy Kondratenko, Natalia Sirenko)....Pages 453-470
 Partner Selection in Green Innovation Projects  (Marina Z. Solesvik)....Pages 471-480
 Evaluation of Structural Integrity of Metal Plates by Fuzzy Similarities of Eddy Currents Representation  (Mario Versaci, Francesco Carlo Morabito)....Pages 481-495
 Cochlear Implants: Consequences of Microphone Aging on Speech Recognition  (C. Berger-Vachon, P. A. Cucis, E. Truy, H. Thai Van, S. Gallego)....Pages 497-519
 Alternative Fuzzy Approaches for Efficiently Solving the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem in Conditions of Uncertain Demands  (Brigitte Werners, Yuriy Kondratenko)....Pages 521-543