Business applications

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the workshops of the 11th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2013), held in Berlin, Germany, in December 2013.

Design thinking as a user-centric innovation method has become more and more widespread during the past years.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2014, held in Larnaca, Cyprus, in May 2014.

This volume presents theoretical developments, applications and computational methods for the analysis and modeling in behavioral and social sciences where data are usually complex to explore and investigate.

Containing a summary of several recent results on Markov-based input modeling in a coherent notation, this book introduces and compares algorithms for parameter fitting and gives an overview of available software tools in the area.

This book contains the extended and revised versions of selected papers from the Third International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design (BMSD 2013), held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, during July 8-10, 2013.

In this book a fuzzy-based recommender system architecture for stimulating political participation and collaboration is proposed.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC), held in Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, during May 5-8, 2014.

Practical LaTeX covers the material that is needed for everyday LaTeX documents.

This textbook teaches crucial statistical methods to answer research questions using a unique range of statistical software programs, including MINITAB and R.

To large organizations, business intelligence (BI) promises the capability of collecting and analyzing internal and external data to generate knowledge and value, thus providing decision support at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels.

Due to the increasing importance of product differentiation and collapsing product life cycles, a growing number of value-adding activities in the industry and service sector are organized in projects.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Subject-Oriented Business Process Management, S-BPM ONE 2014, held in Eichstatt, Germany, in April 2014.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the various aspects for the development of smart cities from a European perspective.

This book aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the issues facing organizations when deciding whether to accept e-commerce as a platform for business.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed scientific proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Subject-Oriented Business Process Management, S-BPM ONE 2014, held in Eichstatt, Germany, in April 2014.

In a world moving towards services, driving service productivity is a central challenge for leaders and members of all types of organisations: for service businesses there is a clear need to be "e;productive"e;, but it is far less clear what this exactly means.

Due to the increasing importance of product differentiation and collapsing product life cycles, a growing number of value-adding activities in the industry and service sector are organized in projects.

To enhance marketing analytics, approximate and inductive reasoning can be applied to handle uncertainty in individual marketing models.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of nine international workshops held in Beijing, China, in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2013, in August 2013.

How do firms jointly develop open information infrastructures?

Matrix algorithms are at the core of scientific computing and are indispensable tools in most applications in engineering.

Customer focus is the most important challenge of the future.

In 2007 INTEROP-VLab defined Enterprise Interoperability as "e;the ability of an enterprise system or application to interact with others at a low cost with a flexible approach"e;.

Service science constitutes an interdisciplinary approach to systematic innovation in service systems, integrating managerial, social, legal and engineering aspects to address the theoretical and practical challenges of the service industry and its economy.

Scientific computing is the study of how to use computers effectively to solve problems that arise from the mathematical modeling of phenomena in science and engineering.

This book describes the trends in digital innovation that are of most importance for businesses and explores the key challenges.

This book presents latest research on the evolution of consumer services, as these services continue to become a larger part of the economy in the world.

The numeric values retrieved from a data warehouse may be difficult for business users to interpret, and may even be interpreted incorrectly.

This book presents and discusses the state of the art and future trends in software engineering education.

Organisations face many challenges, which induce them to perform better, and thus to establish mature (or excellent) business processes.

Natural language is one of the most important means of human communication.

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The papers presented in this volume advance the state-of-the-art research on social media and Web 2.

This book presents a series of twelve short interviews with inspiring practitioners and academics sharing insights in the world of process and transformation.

Since the peak of the world financial crisis in 2008, compliance management has gained more and more interest from practice and research.

The book presents a comprehensive vision of the impact of ICT on the contemporary city, heritage, public spaces and meta-cities on both urban and metropolitan scales, not only in producing innovative perspectives but also related to newly discovered scientific methods, which can be used to stimulate the emerging reciprocal relations between cities and information technologies.

Futurists and scientists alike profess the coming of a new era in the history - the knowledge era.

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The use of social media tools in the enterprise is expanding rapidly and yet, firms are still unclear about the overall value of this activity and how best to facilitate useful outcomes.

Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature is written with students and scholars of literature in mind but will be applicable to other humanists and social scientists wishing to extend their methodological tool kit to include quantitative and computational approaches to the study of text.

The objective of this book is to compare the statistical properties of penalty and non-penalty estimation strategies for some popular models.

Recent achievements in hardware and software developments have enabled the introduction of a revolutionary technology: in-memory data management.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First Asia Pacific Conference on Business Process Management held in Beijing, China, in August 2013.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the workshops of the 10th International Conference on Mobile Web Information, MobiWIS 2013, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in August 2013.

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

Through real-world datasets, this book shows the reader how to work with material in biostatistics using the open source software R.

Companies have long sought to integrate existing Information Systems (IS) in order to support existing and potentially new business processes spread throughout their "e;territories"e; and possibly to collaborating organizations.

This book deals with the development of so-called fourth generation mobile communications or 4G.

This book examines food in the United States in the age of the Internet.