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    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Fuentes, Rodrigo (University of Chicago, 2018)
      This paper analyzes the effects of the minimum wage on a firm's productivity. The main hypothesis is that an increase in the minimum wage has a negative effect on total factor productivity (TFP) due to the existence of ...
    • Zurita Alarcón, Gustavo; Baloian Tataryan, Nelson; Jerez, Óscar (IEEE, 2018)
      In the era of mobile learning and digital native students, concepts like seamless learning, situated learning and rhizomatic learning gain importance as the current technology is able to support them by developing new ...
    • Merigó Lindahl, José; Herrera Viedma, Enrique; Cobo, Manuel J.; Laengle Scarlazetta, Sigifredo; Rivas, Daniela (Springer, 2017)
      Soft Computing was launched in 1997. Today, the journal is becoming twenty years old. Motivated by this anniversary, this article develops a bibliometric analysis of the journal in order to identify the leading trends ...
    • Yusoff, Binyamin; Merigó Lindahl, José; Hornero, David Ceballos (Springer, 2018)
      In this paper, an analysis on extensions of multi-expert decision making model based on ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators is presented. The focus is on the aggregation of criteria and the aggregation of individual ...
    • López Fenner, Julio; Maignan, Aude; Echahed, Rachid; Berríos, Soledad (Springer Verlag, 2017)
    • Zurita Alarcón, Gustavo; Baloian Tataryan, Nelson; Jerez, Óscar; Peñafiel, Sergio (Springer, 2017)
      Reading comprehension is essential for students, because it is a predictor of their academic or professional success, however, it is challenging for many students, even more if they are part of large classrooms. This paper ...
    • Cancino del Castillo, Christian; Merigó Lindahl, José; Coronado Martínez, Freddy; Dessouky, Yasser; Dessouky, Mohamed (Elsevier, 2017)
      Computers & Industrial Engineering (CIE) is a leading international journal in the field of industrial engineering, whose first issue was published in 1976. Motivated by its 40th anniversary in 2016, this study aims to ...
    • Blanco Mesa, Fabio; Merigó Lindahl, José; Gil Lafuente, Anna María (IOS Press, 2017)
      Fuzzy decision-making consists in making decisions under complex and uncertain environments where the information can be assessed with fuzzy sets and systems. The aim of this study is to review the main contributions in ...
    • Arnott, David; Lizama Garrido, Félix; Song, Yutong (Elsevier, 2017)
      Business intelligence (BI) is often used as the umbrella termfor large-scale decision support systems (DSS) in organizations. BI is currently the largest area of IT investment in organizations and has been rated as the ...
    • Uribe Bravo, Rodrigo; Fuentes García, Alejandra (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2017)
      Although product placement is a frequently used promotional tool in local and international productions, particularly in combination with advertising, its study has been almost neglected in Latin America. This paper examines ...
    • Avilés Ochoa, Ezequiel; Pérez Arellano, L. A.; León Castro, Ernesto; Merigó Lindahl, José (Int. Association for Fuzzy-Set Management and Economy, 2017)
      In this paper, a new extension of the ordered weighted average (OWA) operator is developed using four different methods: prioritized operators, induced operators, probabilistic operators and distance techniques. This new ...
    • Torres, Juan Pablo; Jara Bertín, Mauricio; López Iturriaga, Félix (Elsevier, 2017)
      We analyze the effect of pyramidal ownership levels on the performance of Chilean firms by considering the impact of business groups. Using an unbalanced panel of 1018 firm-year observations from 88 quoted firms for the ...
    • Zambrano, Fabián; Concha, Pablo; Ramis, Francisco; Neriz Jara, Liliana; Bull, María; Veloz, Patricio; Carvajal, Jaime (IEEE, 2017)
      This paper uses agent based simulation to assess the effect of redesigning the points of access to a major public hospital complex in Chile, where nearly 15,000 people will pass through daily. The study is carried out by ...
    • Loyola Fuentes, Gino (Springer, 2017)
      A two-period ultimatum bargaining game is developed in which parties experience an envy-type externality coming from the surplus captured by their counterparts. Our assumptions on envy levels and outside opportunities allow ...
    • Alfaro García, Víctor; Gil Lafuente, Anna María; Merigó Lindahl, José (IEEE, 2017)
      We present the induced generalized ordered weighted logarithmic aggregation (IGOWLA) operator. It is an extension of the generalized ordered weighted logarithmic aggregation (GOWLA) operator. The IGOWLA operator uses ...
    • Merigó Lindahl, José; Alrajeh, Nabil; Peris Ortiz, Marta (IEEE, 2017)
      The ordered weighted average (OWA) aggregation is an extension of the classical weighted average by using a reordering process of the arguments in a decreasing or increasing way. This article presents new averaging aggregation ...
    • Merigó Lindahl, José; Blanco Mesa, Fabio; Gil Lafuente, Anna María; Yager, Ronald R. (IEEE, 2017)
      The International Journal of Intelligent Systems was created on 1986. Today, the journal has become thirty years old. In order to celebrate this anniversary, this study develops a bibliometric review of all the papers ...
    • Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Sepúlveda, Paulina (Oxford University, 2017)
      This article examines how a policy oriented toward a specific group within the population can have collateraleffects on the economic decisions of other groups. In 1996, the Chilean government approved the extension ofthe ...
    • Torres, Juan Pablo; Kunc, Martin; O'Brien, Frances (Elsevier, 2017)
      This paper presents a protocol for supporting strategy development via system dynamics (SD) model- ing in consultation with Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of small organizations; it also reports on the effectiveness of ...
    • Hojman Trujillo, Daniel; Duarte Vásquez, Fabián; Ruiz-Tagle Venero, Jaime; Budnich, Marilu; Delgado, Carolina; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea (Public Library of Science, 2017)
      We study the economic cost of dementia in Chile, and its variation according to socioeconomic status (SES). We use primary data from a survey of 330 informal primary caregivers who completed both a RUD-Lite and a ...