Business applications

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in May 2015.

This book presents a comprehensive study of multivariate time series with linear state space structure.

Introducing the IBM SPSS Modeler, this book guides readers through data mining processes and presents relevant statistical methods.

This textbook provides an introduction to the free software Python and its use for statistical data analysis.

The papers presented in this volume advance thestate-of-the-art research on digital marketing and social media, mobile computingand responsive web design, semantic technologies and recommender systems,augmented and virtual reality, electronic distribution and online travelreviews, MOOC and eLearning, eGovernment and sharing economy.

This book focuses on statistical methods for the analysis of discrete failure times.

This bookconstitutes revised selected papers from the 4th InternationalConference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2015, held inLisbon, Portugal, in January 2015.

This textbook introduces the vast array of features and powerful mathematical functions of Mathematica using a multitude of clearly presented examples and worked-out problems.

Thisbook constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th InternationalConference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2014,held in Lisbon, Portugal, in April 2014.

This book features research contributions fromThe Abel Symposium on Statistical Analysis for High Dimensional Data, held inNyvagar, Lofoten, Norway, in May 2014.

This bookconstitutes revised selected papers from the 10th InternationalConference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2014, held inBarcelona, Spain, April 2014, organized by the Institute for Systems andTechnologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), andtechnically sponsored by the European Research Center for Information Systems(ERCIS).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2015, held in Bolzano, Italy, in December 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the five workshops that were organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2015, which took place in Poznan, Poland, in June 2015.

This book presents the full scope of Design Thinking in theory and practice, bringing together prominent opinion leaders and experienced practitioners who share their insights, approaches and lessons learned.

Explaining how graph theory and social network analysis can be applied to team sports analysis, This book presents useful approaches, models and methods that can be used to characterise the overall properties of team networks and identify the prominence of each team player.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of sevenworkshops and a symposium, held at the 34th International Conference onConceptual Modeling, ER 2015, in Stockholm, Sweden.

This book offers a collection of selected papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on ICT Innovations held in October 2015, in Ohrid, Macedonia, with main topic Emerging Technologies for Better Living.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2014, held in Barcelona, Spain, in April 2014.

This text presents a wide-ranging and rigorous overview of nearest neighbor methods, one of the most important paradigms in machine learning.

This comprehensive and stimulating introduction to Matlab, a computer language now widely used for technical computing, is based on an introductory course held at Qian Weichang College, Shanghai University, in the fall of 2014.

This book offers a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in classification at the interface between statistics, computer science and application fields.

Thisfundamental guide on programmatic advertising explains in detail how automated, data-driven advertisingreally works in practice and how the right adoption leads to a competitive advantage foradvertisers, agencies and media.

This book presents and analyzes the concept of online brand communities, an emerging and exciting topic in marketing and eCommerce.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22st EuroSPI conference, held in Ankara, Turkey, in September/October 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation, EOMAS 2015, held at CAiSE 2015, in June 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third IFIP TC 5/8 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology, ICT-EurAsia 2015, with the collocation of AsiaARES 2015 as a special track on Availability, Reliability and Security, and the 9th IFIP WG 8.

This new edition to the classic book by ggplot2 creator Hadley Wickham highlights compatibility with knitr and RStudio.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 5.

Infotext: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud computing, ESOCC 2015, held in Taormina, Sicily, Italy, in September 2015.

Presenting a comprehensive resource for the mastery of network analysis in R, the goal of Network Analysis with R is to introduce modern network analysis techniques in R to social, physical, and health scientists.

For over two decades, this comprehensive manual has been the standard introduction and complete reference for writing articles and books containing mathematical formulas.

This is the first book to show the capabilities of Microsoft Excel to teach engineering statistics effectively.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2015, held in Innsbruck, Austria, in August/September 2015.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 12th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2014, held in Paris, France, in November 2014.

The two volumes IFIP AICT 459 and 460 constitute the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.

The two volumes IFIP AICT 459 and 460 constitute the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.

This book examines the principles of and advances in personalized task recommendation in crowdsourcing systems, with the aim of improving their overall efficiency.

This book links knowledge management literature and information systems research to explore the process of knowledge preservation within a community of practice.

This book presents 3D3C platforms - three-dimensional systems for community, creation and commerce.

This undergraduate textbook adopts the perspective of organizations - not individuals - and clarifies the impact of social media on their different departments or disciplines, while also exploring how organizations use social media to create business value.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2015, held in Tartu, Estonia, in August 2015.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations, KMO 2015, held in Maribor, Slovenia, in August 2015.

The Model-Free Prediction Principle expounded upon in this monograph is based on the simple notion of transforming a complex dataset to one that is easier to work with, e.

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A unique point of this book is its low threshold, textually simple and at the same time full of self-assessment opportunities.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust, HAS 2015, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2015 and received a total of 4843 submissions, of which 1462 papers and 246 posters were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the combined workshops on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2014, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in October 2014.

This book contains the extended and revised versions of selected papers from the 4th International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, BMSD 2014, held in Luxembourg, Luxembourg, in June 2014.

This work introduces a new method for analysing measured signals: nonlinear mode decomposition, or NMD.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, SPICE 2015, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in June 2015.