Complex Systems: Solutions and Challenges in Economics, Management and Engineering

Part I. Basic Issues in Economic, Organization and Management Systems

1. Does Policy Consistency Affect Economic Growth?
Finn E. Kydland

2. Perception and Reality of the Spanish Economy
Fernando Casado Juan

3. The Virtual Company as a Value Generator in the New Economy
Mario Aguer Hortal

4. The Origin of the Legitimacy of Organizations and Their Determining Factors
Camilo Prado-Román, Francisco Díez-Martín, Alicia Blanco-González, Alberto Prado-Román

5. 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

Part II. Decision Making and Systems Modeling

6. Six Experimental Activities to Introduce the Theory of Fuzzy Sets
Joan Carles Ferrer Comalat, Xavier Bertran Roura, Salvador Linares Mustarós, Dolors Corominas Coll

7. Fuzzy Decision Making System for Model-Oriented Academia/Industry Cooperation: University Preferences
Galyna Kondratenko, Yuriy Kondratenko, Ievgen Sidenko

8. Towards the Convergence in Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Based Decision-Making Models
Leonardo Concepción, Gonzalo Nápoles, Isel Grau, Koen Vanhoof, Rafael Bello

9. Eliciting Fuzzy Preferences Towards Health States with Discrete Choice Experiments
Michał Jakubczyk, Bogumił Kamiński, Michał Lewandowski

10. The Soft Consensus Model in the Multidistance Framework
Silvia Bortot, Mario Fedrizzi, Michele Fedrizzi, Ricardo Alberto Marques Pereira, Thuy Hong Nguyen

11. 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

12. Production Systems Optimization Using Hierarchical Planning
F. González Santoyo, B. Flores Romero, A. M. Gil Lafuente, J. Flores Juan, R. Chávez Rivera

13. 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

Part III. Intelligent Data Analysis and Processing

14. Fuzzy Data Processing Beyond Min t-Norm
Andrzej Pownuk, Vladik Kreinovich, Songsak Sriboonchitta

15. Detecting Changes in Time Sequences with the Competitive Detector
Leszek J. Chmielewski, Arkadiusz Orłowski

16. Deep Learning Architecture for High-Level Feature Generation Using Stacked Auto Encoder for Business Intelligence
Vikas Singh, Nishchal K. Verma

17. Comparison of Type-2 Fuzzy Integration for Optimized Modular Neural Networks Applied to Human Recognition
Daniela Sánchez, Patricia Melin, Oscar Castillo

Part IV. Sustainability

18. Fuzzy Measure of National Sustainable Development Aggregate Index
Gorkhmaz Imanov

19. A Dynamic Game for a Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Massimiliano Ferrara, Bruno Antonio Pansera

20. Pichat’s Algorithm for the Sustainable Regional Analysis Management: Case Study of Mexico
Ingrid Nineth Pinto López, Anna María Gil Lafuente, Guillermo Sánchez Flores

21. Companies’ Selection Methods for Inclusion in Sustainable Indices: A Fuzzy Approach
Vicente Liern, Blanca Pérez-Gladish

Part V. Financial Analyses

22. About Formal Construction of Financial Analysis
Alfonso M. Rodríguez

23. Stock Returns Forecast: An Examination By Means of Artificial Neural Networks
Martín Iglesias Caride, Aurelio F. Bariviera, Laura Lanzarini

24. Persistent Correlations in Major Indices of the World Stock Markets
Maciej Janowicz, Leszek J. Chmielewski, Joanna Kaleta, Luiza Ochnio, Arkadiusz Orłowski, Andrzej Zembrzuski

25. Forgotten Effects in Exchange Rate Forecasting Models
Ezequiel Avilés Ochoa, Ernesto León Castro, Ana María Gil Lafuente, José María Merigo Lindahl

26. 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

Part VI. Applications in Business and Technology

27. Management System for Agricultural Enterprise on the Basis of Its Economic State Forecasting
Igor Atamanyuk, Yuriy Kondratenko, Natalia Sirenko

28. Partner Selection in Green Innovation Projects
Marina Z. Solesvik

29. Evaluation of Structural Integrity of Metal Plates by Fuzzy Similarities of Eddy Currents Representation
Mario Versaci, Francesco Carlo Morabito

30. Cochlear Implants: Consequences of Microphone Aging on Speech Recognition
C. Berger-Vachon, P. A. Cucis, E. Truy, H. Thai Van, S. Gallego

31. Alternative Fuzzy Approaches for Efficiently Solving the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem in Conditions of Uncertain Demands
Brigitte Werners, Yuriy Kondratenko

Keywords: Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods