Business mathematics and systems

This book develops a crowdsourced sensor-cloud service composition framework taking into account spatio-temporal aspects.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement, EuroSPI conference, held in Bilbao, Spain, in September 2018.

This book offers a practical guide to artificial intelligence (AI) techniques that are used in business.

Extensive research conducted by the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA, and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, has yielded valuable insights on why and how design thinking works.

The rapid rise of generative intelligence is apparent from its adoption prospects across industrial sectors.

This textbook explores the theoretical and practical aspects of managing international business operations while also dealing with multi-cultural, multi-national and global issues of managing business expansion beyond the domestic market.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2018, held in Odder, Denmark in August 2018.

This book examines the massive changes currently taking place in the business world and commonly known under the label "e;digitalization.

This book brings together cutting-edge research on consulting in a single volume, thus helping to make the state-of-the-art in the field of consulting research more accessible, to promote better practices in business, and to spark further research.

The recent data controversy with Facebook highlights that the tech industry as a whole was utterly unprepared for the backlash it faced as a result of its business model of selling user data to third parties.

This proceedings volume highlights the role and importance of Operational Research (OR) in the digital era and the underlying ICT challenges.

This book introduces text analytics as a valuable method for deriving insights from text data.

This book combines the analytic principles of digital business and data science with business practice and big data.

This book addresses the latest approaches to holistic Cyber-Physical System (CPS) resilience in real-world industrial applications.

A much-needed addition to literature, this timely edited collection aims to provide clarity and understanding on how modern organizations work.

This book presents a rich compilation of real-world cases on digitalization, the goal being to share first-hand insights from respected organizations and to make digitalization more tangible.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations, KMO 2018, held in Zilina, Slovakia, in August 2018.

This authoritative text/reference describes the state of the art of fog computing, presenting insights from an international selection of renowned experts.

This book offers practical advice on managing enterprise modeling (EM) projects and facilitating participatory EM sessions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 8.

This book reports on the latest research and developments in the field of cybersecurity, particularly focusing on personal security and new methods for reducing human error and increasing cyber awareness, as well as innovative solutions for increasing the security of advanced Information Technology (IT) infrastructures.

This doctoral thesis focuses on the spread of process information in organizations and, in particular, on the mitigation of the problems caused by the spread of information on a single process over numerous models, documents, and systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th IFIP WG 8.

This book examines how digital technologies enable collaboration as a way for individuals, teams and businesses to connect, create value, and harness new opportunities.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2018, held in Kiel, Germany, in July/ August 2017.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, BMSD 2018, held in Vienna, Austria, in July 2018.

This book discusses processes and procedures in information/data processing and management.

As more and more industries are experiencing digital disruption, using information technology to enable a competitive advantage becomes a critical success factor for all enterprises.

This book reports on cutting-edge research on social and occupational ergonomics, presenting innovative contributions to the optimization of sociotechnical management systems related to organizational, policy, and logistical issues.

This book responds to the increasing speed with which the domain of electronic procurement has been evolving, as well to the significant advances predicted to take place in the near future.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2018, held in Berlin, Germany, in July 2018.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in April 2017.

This book presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Joint Conference - ICIEOM-ADINGOR-IISE-AIM-ASEM (IJC2017) "e;XXIII International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management"e;, "e;International ADINGOR Conference 2017"e;, "e;International IISE Conference 2017"e;, "e;International AIM Conference 2017"e; and "e;International ASEM Conference 2017"e;, which took place at UPV (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia) from July 6th to 7th, 2017.

This textbook begins with an introduction to the US healthcare delivery system, its many systemic challenges and the prior efforts to develop and deploy informatics tools to help overcome those problems.

This book constitutes extended and revised papers from the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in April 2017.

This book examines issues related to the alignment of business strategies and analytics.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the CAiSE Forum 2018 held in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of the 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2018, in June 2018.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of six international workshops held in Tallinn, Estonia, in conjunction with the 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2018, in June 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2018, held in Nanjing, China, in June 2018.

This book seeks to promote the structured, standardized and accurate use of software measurement at all levels of modern software development companies.

This book provides an overview of important trends and developments in logistics and supply chain research, making them available to practitioners, while also serving as a point of reference for academicians.

This book develops a common understanding between the client and the provider in each of the four stages of strategic outsourcing.

This book constitutes the proceedings of two events held at the CAiSE conference and relating to the areas of enterprise, business process and information systems modeling: The 19th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2018, and the 23rd International Conference on Evaluation and Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development, EMMSAD 2018.

This double volume set ( LNAI 10863-10864)  constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Workshop, EG-ICE 2018, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in June 2018.

This double volume set ( LNAI 10863-10864)  constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Workshop, EG-ICE 2018, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in June 2018.

This book analyses various models of value creation in projects and businesses by applying different forms of Artificial Intelligence in their products and services.

This book develops a crowdsourced sensor-cloud service composition framework taking into account spatio-temporal aspects.

This book conceptualises and develops crowdsourcing as an organisational business process.

Correctly functioning evaluation systems directly influence the efficient and effective planning and implementation of projects and the achievement of organisational objectives.

This book argues that "e;organizing"e; is a broader term than managing, as it entails understanding how people and machines interact with each other; how resources, data, goods are exchanged in complex and intertwined value chains; and how lines of action and activities can be articulated using flexible protocols and often ad-hoc processes in situated practices of use and production.