Business applications Books

This book chronicles a 10-year introduction of blended learning into the delivery at a leading technological university, with a longstanding tradition of technology-enabled teaching and learning, and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Hence, both teachers...

Program debugging has always been a difficult and time-consuming task in the context of software development, where spectrum-based fault localization (SBFL) is one of the most widely studied families of techniques. While it's not particularly difficult...

This book focuses on crisis management in software development which includes forecasting, responding and adaptive engineering models, methods, patterns and practices. It helps the stakeholders in understanding and identifying the key technology,...

This book constructs both educational and research arguments on various dimensions of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) policy and regulation. There has been a paradigm shift in the ICT industry due to convergence of various technologies,...

This book mainly focuses on the sampled-data control of logical networks. We believe that the methods (semi-tensor product of matrices), results (recent results on Boolean control networks under periodic sampled-data control, Boolean control networks...

This book contains contemporary discussions on technology, business models, and the adoption of digital manufacturing systems. The book's initial chapters cover technological details underpinning the digital manufacturing systems, for example,...

This book provides a detailed theoretical background of Logistics 4.0 using real-world examples and case studies and proposes a methodological framework to understand the technological revolutions happening in the present day from the perspective of...

This book provides an accessible introduction and practical guidelines to apply asymmetric multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis, and related methods to asymmetric one-mode two-way and three-way asymmetric data. A major objective of this book is to...

This book introduces platform firms as unique business models. Leveraging on the early literature on network economics and strategy frameworks, this book explores how platform business firms evolve in the modern business world. Taking a strategic...

This book brings together two major trends: data science and blockchains. It is one of the first books to systematically cover the analytics aspects of blockchains, with the goal of linking traditional data mining research communities with novel data...

This book provides a comprehensive and concrete illustration of time series analysis focusing on the state-space model, which has recently attracted increasing attention in a broad range of fields. The major feature of the book lies in its consistent...

This book presents a key solution for current and future technological issues, adopting an integrated system approach with a combination of software engineering applications. Focusing on how software dominates and influences the performance, reliability,...

This book is a product of the Third International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Statistics (iCMS2017) to be held in Langkawi in November 2017. It is divided into four sections according to the thrust areas: Computer Science, Mathematics,...

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. Research on FLOSS has been ongoing for almost two...

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 will be much helpful for the students as a supplementary...

This unique book addresses the statistical modelling and analysis of microbiome data using cutting-edge R software. It includes real-world data from the authors' research and from the public domain, and discusses the implementation of R for data analysis...

This book presents a general conceptual framework to translate principles of system science and engineering to service design. Services are co-created immaterial, heterogeneous, and perishable state changes. A service system includes the intended benefit...

The purpose of this book is to thoroughly prepare the reader for applied research in clustering. Cluster analysis comprises a class of statistical techniques for classifying multivariate data into groups or clusters based on their similar features...

In The Content Advantage, expert Colleen Jones argues that in the age of AI-fueled digital disruption, your organization faces an important choice. The choice is not whether to do content. Every business and organizational function demands content, from...

While probabilistic logics in principle might be applied to solve a range of problems, in practice they are rarely applied - perhaps because they seem disparate, complicated, and computationally intractable. This programmatic book argues that several...

DESCRIPTION This book will cover the entire System Center at the latest release of 2022. Here, we will cover various grounds by not only covering the purpose of each product within the System Center suite but also introducing all the latest features...

"Statistics with Rust, Second Edition" is designed to help you learn quickly, focusing on practical statistics using Rust scripts. The book is for readers who know the basics of statistics and machine learning. It gives quick explanations so you can try...

The development of software system with acceptable level of reliability and quality within available time frame and budget becomes a challenging objective. This objective could be achieved to some extent through early prediction of number of faults...

This book explores minimum divergence methods of statistical machine learning for estimation,  regression, prediction, and so forth,  in which we engage in information geometry to elucidate their intrinsic properties of the corresponding loss...

This book provides comprehensive reviews of recent progress in matrix variate and tensor variate data analysis from applied points of view. Matrix and tensor approaches for data analysis are known to be extremely useful for recently emerging complex and...

This book provides a modern introductory tutorial on specialized theoretical aspects of spatial and temporal modeling. The areas covered involve a range of topics which reflect the diversity of this domain of research across a number of quantitative...

The idea of the Gröbner basis first appeared in a 1927 paper by F. S. Macaulay, who succeeded in creating a combinatorial characterization of the Hilbert functions of homogeneous ideals of the polynomial ring. Later, the modern definition of the Gröbner...

The standard approach of most introductory books for practical statistics is that readers first learn the minimum mathematical basics of statistics and rudimentary concepts of statistical methodology. They then are given examples of analyses of data...

At a round table discussion on the eukaryotic chromosome sponsor­ ed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in Diisseldorf, February 1978, the botanists among the participants felt that plant systems were under-represented. In...

ForewordChapter 1. Formally-kinetic description of one- and two-step reactions1.1 Main concepts of chemical kinetics1.2 Kinetics of simple reactions1.3 Reactions, which include two elementary steps1.3.1 Reversible (two-way) reactions1.3.2 Consecutive...

Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung.- Vollständig beobachtetes Hidden-Markov-Modell.- Hidden-Markov-Modell.- Historie.

Professional data management is the foundation for the successful digital transformation of traditional companies. Unfortunately, many companies fail to implement data governance because they do not fully understand the complexity of the challenge...

With this textbook, Vaisman and Zimányi deliver excellent coverage of data warehousing and business intelligence technologies ranging from the most basic principles to recent findings and applications. To this end, their work is structured into three...

In diesem anwendungsorientierten Lehrbuch werden kompakt alle elementaren statistischen Verfahren für die Ökonomie anschaulich erklärt. Der leicht verständliche Text ist mit vielen Beispielen und Übungen ergänzt. Die praxisnahe Darstellung der Methoden...

Dieses Buch richtet sich an Studierende verschiedener Fachrichtungen, die das Softwarepaket Octave als kostenfreien und praktischen Lernassistenten nutzen möchten. Es stellt dar, wie sich Octave zur Lösung mathematischer Probleme aus technischen und...

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Partial Least Squares (PLS) methods with specific reference to their use in marketing and with a discussion of the directions of current research and perspectives. It covers the broad area of PLS...

This book introduces the quantum mechanical framework to information retrieval scientists seeking a new perspective on foundational problems. As such, it concentrates on the main notions of the quantum mechanical framework and describes an innovative...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, CONCUR 2014, held in Rome, Italy in September 2014. The 35 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited talks were carefully reviewed and...

SebastianGörg introduces social workflows as a new application domain for Process-AwareInformation Systems and draws the design of a social workflow platform thatenables private individuals to make use of workflow technology in theireveryday lives...

The ARIS architecture developed here is described in concrete terms as an information model within the entity-relationship approach. This information model, in turn, serves as the basis for the systematic and rational ...

Modern information technology has opened up new possibilities of flexibilization and cost reduction in production. The author defines CIM - Computer Integrated Manufacturing - as a concept for the structuring of industrial...

Der Einsatz von Software-Entwicklungsumgebungen in Unternehmen ist heute eine zentrale Aufgabe des Informationsmanagements. Das vorliegende Buch bietet eine umfassende Beschreibung der Vorgehensweise bei der Auswahl und...

In vielen Organisationen steht die Ablösung bestehender EDV-Netzwerke durch Windows 2000 bevor. Dieser praxisorientierte Leitfaden unterstützt Sie bei der Durchführung eines solchen Projektes.- Neben den Grundregeln für...

Kundennähe und Kundenorientierung gelten als Schlüsselfaktoren zum Geschäftserfolg. Dies impliziert eine konsequente Ausrichtung von unternehmensinternen und -übergreifenden Geschäftsprozessen auf den "König Kunde". Mit diesem...