Business applications

This book discusses the effective use of modern ICT solutions for business needs, including the efficient use of IT resources, decision support systems, business intelligence, data mining and advanced data processing algorithms, as well as the processing of large datasets (inter alia social networking such as Twitter and Facebook, etc.

This book focuses on the application and development of information geometric methods in the analysis, classification and retrieval of images and signals.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the field of outlier analysis from a computer science point of view.

This book reflects the tremendous changes in the telecommunications industry in the course of the past few decades - shorter innovation cycles, stiffer competition and new communication products.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2016, held in Banff, AB, Canada, in October 2016.

This textbook on practical data analytics unites fundamental principles, algorithms, and data.

In a series of essays, this book describes and analyzes the concept and theory of the recent smart city phenomenon from a global perspective, with a focus on its implementation around the world.

The book reports on new theories and applications in the field of intelligent systems and computing.

This guide for practicing statisticians, data scientists, and R users and programmers will teach the essentials of preprocessing: data leveraging the R programming language to easily and quickly turn noisy data into usable pieces of information.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 5.

Knowledge management (KM) is about managing the lifecycle of knowledge consisting of creating, storing, sharing and applying knowledge.

This book presents a selection of the most recent algorithmic advances in Riemannian geometry in the context of machine learning, statistics, optimization, computer vision, and related fields.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd EuroSPI conference, held in Graz, Austria, in September 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2016, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2016.

This book describes and provides many detailed examples of implementing Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) using R.

This book brings together selected peer-reviewed contributions from various research fields in statistics, and highlights the diverse approaches and analyses related to real-life phenomena.

This book presents real-world decision support systems, i.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 7th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2016, as well as of the IFIP Working Group 8.

This book is about the role and potential of using digital technology in designing teaching and learning tasks in the mathematics classroom.

This new edition includes the latest advances and developments in computational probability involving A Probability Programming Language (APPL).

This focuses on the developing field of building probability models with the power of symbolic algebra systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 8.

Addressing the issues that will be central to Africa's various attempts to effectively manage knowledge and innovation for sustainable business management, this edited book makes a timely contribution to research on business in Africa.

This volume collects selected, peer-reviewed contributions from the 2nd Conference of the International Society for Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS), held in Cadiz (Spain) between June 11-16 2014, and sponsored by the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

This volume conveys some of the surprises, puzzles and success stories in high-dimensional and complex data analysis and related fields.

This book summarizes the results of Design Thinking Research carried out at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA and at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2016, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in June 2016.

This book is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical biological and life science problems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST 2016, held in St.

This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching engineering statistics effectively.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, SPICE 2016, held in Dublin, Ireland, in June 2016.

This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching business statistics effectively.

This introductory textbook for business statistics teaches statistical analysis and research methods via business case studies and financial data using Excel, Minitab, and SAS.

This book focuses on the implementation of digital strategies in the public sectors in the US, Mexico, Brazil, India and Germany.

This volume discusses digital diplomacy and artificial intelligence within the context of global governance and international security.

This book presents the latest on the theoretical approach of the contemporary issues evolved in strategic marketing and the integration of theory and practice.

This book presents recent results on positivity and optimization of polynomials in non-commuting variables.

This volume contains the technical papers presented in the seven high-quality workshops associated with the European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2015, held in Taormina, Italy, in September 2015: Third International Workshop on Cloud for IoT (CLloT 2015), 5th International Workshop on Adaptive Services for the Future Internet (WAS4FI 2015), Second Workshop on Seamless Adaptive Multi-cloud Management of Service-Based Applications (SeaClouds 2015), First International Workshop on Cloud Adoption and Migration (CloudWay 2015), First International Workshop on Digital Enterprise Architecture and Engineering (IDEA 2015), First Workshop on Federated Cloud Networking (FedCloudNet 2015).

This book traces the theory and methodology of multivariate statistical analysis and shows how it can be conducted in practice using the LISREL computer program.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th IFIP WG 5.

This volume contains pioneering contributions to both the theory and practice of optimal experimental design.

This proceedings volume contains eight selected papers thatwere presented in the International Symposium in Statistics (ISS) 2015 OnAdvances in Parametric and Semi-parametric Analysis of Multivariate, TimeSeries, Spatial-temporal, and Familial-longitudinal Data, held in St.

This book contains a rich set of tools for nonparametric analyses, and the purpose of this text is to provide guidance to students and professional researchers on how R is used for nonparametric data analysis in the biological sciences:To introduce when nonparametric approaches to data analysis are appropriateTo introduce the leading nonparametric tests commonly used in biostatistics and how R is used to generate appropriate statistics for each testTo introduce common figures typically associated with nonparametric data analysis and how R is used to generate appropriate figures in support of each data set The book focuses on how R is used to distinguish between data that could be classified as nonparametric as opposed to data that could be classified as parametric, with both approaches to data classification covered extensively.

This book describes how chief information officers (CIOs) can embrace and drive the digital transformation by providing innovative leadership that uses old skills in a novel way.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, May 20-22, 2015, organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), and technically sponsored by the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS).

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedproceedings of the 10th International Conference on Evaluation of NovelApproaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2015, held in Barcelona, Spain, inApril 2015.

This book presents different use cases in big data applications and related practical experiences.

Thisbook collects multiple research articles studying the factors influencing wearabledevice usage.

This book offersreaders essential orientation on cybersecurity safeguards, and first andforemost helps them find the right balance between financial expenditures andrisk mitigation.