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

This highly anticipated second edition features new chapters and sections, 225 new references, and comprehensive R software.

This book reviews nonparametric Bayesian methods and models that have proven useful in the context of data analysis.

These are the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods, which was held in Lugano, Switzerland.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of optimization issues and models in web and mobile advertising.

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The aim of this book is to demonstrate how Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) can be used to enhance the study of social agency, organizational behavior and organizational management.

This monograph discusses challenges faced during the implementation of national eHealth programs.

This book covers all the topics found in introductory descriptive statistics courses, including simple linear regression and time series analysis, the fundamentals of inferential statistics (probability theory, random sampling and estimation theory), and inferential statistics itself (confidence intervals, testing).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2014, held in Angers, France, in March 2014.

This edited volume focuses on recent research results in classification, multivariate statistics and machine learning and highlights advances in statistical models for data analysis.

This SpringerBrief discusses multiple forms of open-source-inspired outsourcing: opensourcing, innersourcing and crowdsourcing.

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This is a multidisciplinary textbook on social commerce by leading authors of e-commerce and e-marketing textbooks, with contributions by several industry experts.

This is the first numerical analysis text to use Sage for the implementation of algorithms and can be used in a one-semester course for undergraduates in mathematics, math education, computer science/information technology, engineering, and physical sciences.

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This text covers topics in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra with a strong perspective toward practical and computational aspects.

This book describes the next generation of business applications in the innovative new SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA), exploiting the revolutionary capabilities of the SAP HANA in-memory database.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 8.

The Second Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting (BAYSM 2014) and the research presented here facilitate connections among researchers using Bayesian Statistics by providing a forum for the development and exchange of ideas.

This book takes an in-depth look at consumer behavior in the context of multichannel commerce and explores how the convergence of physical and electronic channels influences consumer decision-making in a multichannel environment.

This book introduces a fuzzy classification approach, which combines relational databases with fuzzy logic for more effective and powerful customer relationship management (CRM).

This book describes the journey of developing and implementing a global knowledge sharing strategy at the multinational project development and construction company Skanska.

This volume explores emerging research and pedagogy in analytics, collaboration, and decision support with an emphasis on business intelligence and social media.

This edited book presents the recent developments in partial least squares-path modeling (PLS-PM) and provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the most advanced research related to PLS-PM.

Executives in Europe have significantly expanded their role in operations - in parallel to their strategic leadership.

This classroom-texted textbook/reference presents a set of useful modeling techniques, describing how these can be combined into a powerful framework for the analysis and design of business systems.

This book examines how information systems research and education can play a major role in contributing to solutions to the Societal Grand Challenges formulated in "e;The Millennium Project"e; (millenium-project.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Exploring Service Science (IESS), held in Porto, Portugal, in February 2015.

This volume contains the technical papers presented in the four high-quality workshops associated with the European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2014, held in Manchester, UK, in September 2014: 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Services for the Future Internet, WAS4FI 2014, 2nd International Workshop on Cloud for IoT, CLIoT 2014, 2nd International Workshop on Cloud Service Brokerage, CSB 2014, and Seamless Adaptive Multi-cloud Management of Service-based Applications, SeaCloudS Workshop.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of enterprise architecture management with a specific focus on the business aspects.

Featuring numerous case examples from companies around the world, this second edition integrates theoretical advances and empirical data with practical applications, including in-depth discussion on the COBIT 5 framework which can be used to build, measure and audit enterprise governance of IT approaches.

This book investigates the design and implementation of market mechanisms to explore how they can support knowledge- and innovation management within firms.

Through this book, researchers and students will learn to use R for analysis of large-scale genomic data and how to create routines to automate analytical steps.

The need for information privacy and security continues to grow and gets increasingly recognized.

This book is a complete introduction to the power of R for marketing research practitioners.

This book shows how business process management (BPM), as a management discipline at the intersection of IT and Business, can help organizations to master digital innovations and transformations.

This book collects and reports on the results of a study conducted on the Chinese Software and Services Outsourcing (SSO) industry, focusing on one of its main players as a key case study.

The papers presented in this volume advance the state-of-the-art research on big data and analytics, social media, electronic marketing, mobile computing and recommender systems, mobile sensors and geosocial services, augmented reality, wearable computing, smart tourism, electronic distribution for tourism and hospitality products and services, e-learning, responsive web design and management, and eTourism for development.

This book provides comprehensive and concise definitions of risk pooling and risk-pooling methods, a straightforward statistical explanation, and a value-chain oriented framework for analyzing risk-pooling methods.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of workshops, held at the 32nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2013, in Hong Kong, China in November 2013.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to financial modeling that teaches advanced undergraduate and graduate students in finance and economics how to use R to analyze financial data and implement financial models.

This book provides new insights on the study of global environmental changes using the ecoinformatics tools and the adaptive-evolutionary technology of geoinformation monitoring.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2014, held in Helsinki, Finland, in December 2014.

This book takes an in-depth look at the software industry as a major factor in future global economic performance.

The Future Internet envisions a move toward widespread use of services as a way of networked interaction.

This book deals with the limitations of economic and financial accounting as an appropriate instrument to reflect the real value created or destroyed by an organization.

This volume contains 12 thoroughly refereed and revised papers detailing recent advances in research on designing trading agents and mechanisms for agent-mediated e-commerce.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, SPICE 2014, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in November 2014.

Worldwide, postal and delivery economics is the subject of considerable interest.