Business mathematics and systems

The book addresses the prevalent digital transformation and focuses on its significant disruption in healthcare.

This book introduces readers to a workload-aware methodology for large-scale graph algorithm optimization in graph-computing systems, and proposes several optimization techniques that can enable these systems to handle advanced graph algorithms efficiently.

This book explores a range of prospective avenues, models, and operational and strategic approaches to Lean Six Sigma (LSS), a contemporary Continuous Improvement (CI) practice for achieving a quality-based competitive edge in organisations.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of various aspects of the development of smart cities from a secure, trusted, and reliable data transmission perspective.

This book explores recent advances in blockchain technology and its impact on Industry 4.

This book explores the possibility of using social media data for detecting socio-economic recovery activities.

Free/libre open source software (FLOSS) ecosystems such as Linux have had a tremendous impact on computing and society and have captured the attention of businesses, researchers, and policy makers.

This book presents current research on mobile Internet society.

This book presents a general conceptual framework to translate principles of system science and engineering to service design.

This book systematically summarizes the development process of China Internet in 2020, reveals the strong impact of Internet on China's economic development and social progress, and displays the course of the Chinese people's changes from beneficiary and participant to builder, contributor, and joint maintainer of cyberspace development and security during the Internet development; objectively reflects the development achievements, development status, and development trend of China Internet in 2020, systematically summarizes the main experience in the development of China Internet, and deeply analyzes China's strategic planning, policy actions, development results, practical level and future trend in information infrastructure, network information technology, digital economy, E-government, construction and management of network contents, network security, legal construction of cyberspace, international cyberspace governance, and other aspects; further improves the index system for the development of China Internet and makes an overall assessment of network security and informatization work in 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government, excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) throughout China from 6 aspects, in the hope of reflecting the Internet development level throughout China and individual places comprehensively and accurately.

The exponential growth of disruptive technology is changing our world.

Two of the most important developments of this new century are the emergence of cloud computing and big data.

This book investigates the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on development and well-being (beyond economic benefits) and highlights some emerging issues relating to the realities, constraints and digital divides with particular reference to India.

This book asks fundamental questions about the extent to which India is participating in the global shift towards knowledge-based forms of competitiveness.

The exponential growth of disruptive technology is changing our world.

This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of blockchains, a significant innovation that has already started to redesign business, social and political interactions.

The book focuses on key emerging areas concerning flexible systems management as an approach for transforming organizations.

The book discusses the concepts of E-Governance from the understanding of a naive user.

This book explores a range of prospective avenues, models, and operational and strategic approaches to Lean Six Sigma (LSS), a contemporary Continuous Improvement (CI) practice for achieving a quality-based competitive edge in organisations.

This book examines the nature, extent and implications of rapid strides digitalization has made in India since the turn of the millennium.

This book explains supply chain management (SCM) using the strategy-structure-process-performance (SSPP) framework.

This book presents a key solution for current and future technological issues, adopting an integrated system approach with a combination of software engineering applications.

This book discusses the Role Competency Matrix (RCM), a competency management system framework that helps organizations to quantify and manage workforce competencies and align them to business needs.

Free/libre open source software (FLOSS) ecosystems such as Linux have had a tremendous impact on computing and society and have captured the attention of businesses, researchers, and policy makers.

This book shows how strategic management can be practiced in the context of flexibility.

This book offers an in-depth and systematic introduction to improved failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) methods for proactive healthcare risk analysis.

There is a broad consensus amongst law firms and in-house legal departments that next generation "e;Legal Tech"e; - particularly in the form of Blockchain-based technologies and Smart Contracts - will have a profound impact on the future operations of all legal service providers.

This book highlights the new urban-rural relationship that has emerged under the influence of e-commerce in China.

Artificial intelligence and related technologies are changing both the law and the legal profession.

This book addresses extensible and adaptable computing, a broad range of methods and techniques used to systematically tackle the future growth of systems and respond proactively and seamlessly to change.

This book investigates the real process of unleashing the power of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) through Open Innovation and strategic choices.

This book encompasses empirical evidences to understand the application of data analytical techniques in emerging contexts.

This book investigates solutions incorporated by architecture boards in global enterprises to resolve issues and mitigate related architecture risks, while also proposing and implementing an adaptive integrated digital architecture framework (AIDAF) and related models and approaches/platforms, which can be applied in companies to promote IT strategies using cloud/mobile IT/digital IT.

This book presents a general conceptual framework to translate principles of system science and engineering to service design.

Today, only having information is insufficient for a competitive advantage.

As the first to focus on the issue of Data Warehouse Requirements Engineering, this book introduces a model-driven requirements process used to identify requirements granules and incrementally develop data warehouse fragments.

This book proposes complex hierarchical deep architectures (HDA) for predicting bankruptcy, a topical issue for business and corporate institutions that in the past has been tackled using statistical, market-based and machine-intelligence prediction models.

After first analysing the economic development processes of emerging Asian economies in general, this book explores the development implications of India's seventy years (1947-2017) of socio-economic policy regimes.

This edited volume focuses on research conducted in the areas of industrial safety.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 2nd Advances in Business Research International Conference (ABRIC2016).

This book provides a framework and real case analyses concerning business architecture strategy and platform-based ecosystems.

This edited volume focuses on research conducted in the area of ergonomic design.

The main objective is to provide quick and essential knowledge for the subject with the help of summary and solved questions /case studies without going into detailed discussion.

This book blends the principles of cloud computing theory and discussion of emerging technologies in cloud broker systems, enabling users to realise the potential of an integrated broker system for scientific applications and the Internet of Things (IoT).

This edited collection brings together a series of interdisciplinary contributions in the field of Information Technology Law.

This book covers important issues related to managing supply chain risks from various perspectives.

This book provides an accessible introduction to the history, theory and techniques of informetrics.

This book accomplishes an analysis of critical aspects of managerial implications on the business with information.

This edited volume presents the latest high-quality technical contributions and research results in the areas of computing, informatics, and information management.

This book focuses on the factors that support the strengths of international airlines in general and the Asian airline carriers in particular.