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Advances in Intelligent Process-Aware Information Systems: Concepts, Methods, and Technologies (Intelligent Systems Reference Library #123)
by Manfred Reichert Gregor Grambow Roy OberhauserThis book provides a state-of-the-art perspective on intelligent process-aware information systems and presents chapters on specific facets and approaches applicable to such systems. Further, it highlights novel advances and developments in various aspects of intelligent process-aware information systems and business process management systems. Intelligence capabilities are increasingly being integrated into or created in many of today's software products and services. Process-aware information systems provide critical computing infrastructure to support the various processes involved in the creation and delivery of business products and services. Yet the integration of intelligence capabilities into process-aware information systems is a non-trivial yet necessary evolution of these complex systems. The book's individual chapters address adaptive process management, case management processes, autonomically-capable processes, process-oriented information logistics, process recommendations, reasoning over process models, process portability, and business process intelligence. The primary target groups are researchers and PhD/Master students in the field of information systems.
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing II: Selected Papers from the International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies, CSIT 2017, September 5-8 Lviv, Ukraine (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #689)
by Natalia Shakhovska Volodymyr StepashkoThis book reports on new theories and applications in the field of intelligent systems and computing. It covers computational and artificial intelligence methods, as well as advances in computer vision, current issues in big data and cloud computing, computation linguistics, and cyber-physical systems. It also reports on data mining and knowledge extraction technologies, as well as central issues in intelligent information management. Written by active researchers, the respective chapters are based on papers presented at the International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies (CSIT 2017), held on September 5–8, 2017, in Lviv, Ukraine; and at two workshops accompanying the conference: one on inductive modeling, jointly organized by the Lviv Polytechnic National University and the National Academy of Science of Ukraine; and another on project management, which was jointly organized by the Lviv Polytechnic National University, the International Project Management Association, the Ukrainian Project Management Association, the Kazakhstan Project Management Association, and Nazarbayev University. Given its breadth of coverage, the book provides academics and professionals with extensive information and a timely snapshot of the field of intelligent systems, and is sure to foster new discussions and collaborations among different groups.
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing III: Selected Papers from the International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies, CSIT 2018, September 11-14, Lviv, Ukraine (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #871)
by Natalia Shakhovska Mykola O. MedykovskyyThis book reports on new theories and applications in the field of intelligent systems and computing. It covers computational and artificial intelligence methods, as well as advances in computer vision, current issues in big data and cloud computing, computation linguistics, and cyber-physical systems. It also reports on data mining and knowledge extraction technologies, as well as central issues in intelligent information management.Written by active researchers, the respective chapters are based on papers presented at the International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies (CSIT 2018), held on September 11–14, 2018, in Lviv, Ukraine, and jointly organized by the Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine, the Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine, and the Technical University of Lodz, Poland, under patronage of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Given its breadth of coverage, the book provides academics and professionals with extensive information and a timely snapshot of the field of intelligent systems, and is sure to foster new discussions and collaborations among different groups.
Advances in K-means Clustering: A Data Mining Thinking (Springer Theses)
by Junjie WuNearly everyone knows K-means algorithm in the fields of data mining and business intelligence. But the ever-emerging data with extremely complicated characteristics bring new challenges to this "old" algorithm. This book addresses these challenges and makes novel contributions in establishing theoretical frameworks for K-means distances and K-means based consensus clustering, identifying the "dangerous" uniform effect and zero-value dilemma of K-means, adapting right measures for cluster validity, and integrating K-means with SVMs for rare class analysis. This book not only enriches the clustering and optimization theories, but also provides good guidance for the practical use of K-means, especially for important tasks such as network intrusion detection and credit fraud prediction. The thesis on which this book is based has won the "2010 National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award", the highest honor for not more than 100 PhD theses per year in China.
Advances in Kaiyu Studies: From Shop-Around Movements Through Behavioral Marketing to Town Equity Research (New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives #19)
by Saburo Saito Kosuke YamashiroThis book is the first systematic exposition of advances in Kaiyu studies carried out by the author and his colleagues in Japan and other parts of Asia. Consumer shop-around behavior is referred to as Kaiyu in Japanese, a term widely used in several fields such as city planning, marketing, real estate, tourism, and regional policy. The book demonstrates how Kaiyu research has evolved from the original idea to the present state and envisages prospective Kaiyu studies in the age of big data and the Internet of Things (IoT). The distinguishing feature of their research is that Kaiyu is regarded as consumers’ simultaneous decisions sequentially made while undertaking their shop-arounds as to which shops they visit, for what purpose, and how much they spend there. This is a sharp contrast to much research on trip chains, which only deal with spatial movements. As a result, their studies first succeeded in empirically exploring the relationships between consumer shop-around movements and money flows among shopping sites within a city center retail environment. As a result, the author and his coworkers uncovered the roles of many urban policies and facilities inexplicit so far by revealing how they contribute to the turnover of the whole town through stimulating Kaiyu. This gives a universal means of evaluation for urban development policy. Thus they have refreshed the scope of consumer shop-around studies from shop-around movements in the context of city planning, shopping marketing, and evaluation of urban revitalization policy, to town equity researches. This book presents step by step these conceptual developments by showing concrete research examples from their vast Kaiyu studies based on numerous empirical interview surveys at real retail environments.
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management: Volume 5 (Studies in Computational Intelligence #615)
by Fabrice Guillet Bruno Pinaud Gilles Venturini Djamel Abdelkader ZighedThis book is a collection of representative and novel works done in Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Clustering and Classification that were originally presented in French at the EGC'2013 (Toulouse, France, January 2013) and EGC'2014 Conferences (Rennes, France, January 2014). These conferences were respectively the 13th and 14th editions of this event, which takes place each year and which is now successful and well-known in the French-speaking community. This community was structured in 2003 by the foundation of the French-speaking EGC society (EGC in French stands for "Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances" and means "Knowledge Discovery and Management", or KDM). This book is aiming at all researchers interested in these fields, including PhD or MSc students, and researchers from public or private laboratories. It concerns both theoretical and practical aspects of KDM. The book is structured in two parts called "Applications of KDM to real datasets" and "Foundations of KDM".
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management: Volume 6 (Studies in Computational Intelligence #665)
by Fabrice Guillet Bruno Pinaud Gilles VenturiniThis book is a collection of representative and novel works done in Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Clustering and Classification that were originally presented in French at the EGC'2012 Conference held in Bordeaux, France, on January 2012. This conference was the 12th edition of this event, which takes place each year and which is now successful and well-known in the French-speaking community. This community was structured in 2003 by the foundation of the French-speaking EGC society (EGC in French stands for Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances'' and means Knowledge Discovery and Management'', or KDM). This book is intended to be read by all researchers interested in these fields, including PhD or MSc students, and researchers from public or private laboratories. It concerns both theoretical and practical aspects of KDM. The book is structured in two parts called Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining'' and Classification and Feature Extraction or Selection''. The first part (6 chapters) deals with data clustering and data mining. The three remaining chapters of the second part are related to classification and feature extraction or feature selection.
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management: Volume 7 (Studies in Computational Intelligence #732)
by Fabrice Guillet Bruno Pinaud Bruno Cremilleux Cyril RunzThis book is a collection of representative and novel works done in Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Clustering and Classification that were originally presented in French at the EGC'2012 Conference held in Bordeaux, France, on January 2012. This conference was the 12th edition of this event, which takes place each year and which is now successful and well-known in the French-speaking community. This community was structured in 2003 by the foundation of the French-speaking EGC society (EGC in French stands for ``Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances'' and means ``Knowledge Discovery and Management'', or KDM). This book is intended to be read by all researchers interested in these fields, including PhD or MSc students, and researchers from public or private laboratories. It concerns both theoretical and practical aspects of KDM. The book is structured in two parts called ``Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining'' and ``Classification and Feature Extraction or Selection''. The first part (6 chapters) deals with data clustering and data mining. The three remaining chapters of the second part are related to classification and feature extraction or feature selection.
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management: Volume 9 (Studies in Computational Intelligence #1004)
by Fabrice Guillet Arnaud Martin Rakia Jaziri Marie-Christine Rousset Lydia Boudjeloud-AssalaThis book is a collection of high scientific novel contributions addressing several of these challenges. These articles are extended versions of a selection of the best papers that were initially presented at the French-speaking conferences EGC’2019held in Metz (France, January 21-25, 2019).These extended versions have been accepted after an additional peer-review process among papers already accepted in long format at the conference. Concerning the conference, the long and short papers selection were also the result of a double blind peer review process among the hundreds of papers initially submitted to each edition of the conference (acceptance rate for long papers is about 25%.
Advances in Knowledge Management: Celebrating Twenty Years of Research and Practice (Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning #1)
by Ettore Bolisani Meliha HandzicThis book celebrates the past, present and future of knowledge management. It brings a timely review of two decades of the accumulated history of knowledge management. By tracking its origin and conceptual development, this review contributes to the improved understanding of the field and helps to assess the unresolved questions and open issues. For practitioners, the book provides a clear evidence of value of knowledge management. Lessons learnt from implementations in business, government and civil sectors help to appreciate the field and gain useful reference points. The book also provides guidance for future research by drawing together authoritative views from people currently facing and engaging with the challenge of knowledge management, who signal a bright future for the field.
Advances in Longitudinal Data Methods in Applied Economic Research: 2020 International Conference on Applied Economics (ICOAE) (Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics)
by Nicholas Tsounis Aspasia VlachveiThis volume presents new methods and applications in longitudinal data estimation methodology in applied economic. Featuring selected papers from the 2020 the International Conference on Applied Economics (ICOAE 2020) held virtually due to the corona virus pandemic, this book examines interdisciplinary topics such as financial economics, international economics, agricultural economics, marketing and management. Country specific case studies are also featured.
Advances in Luxury Brand Management (Journal of Brand Management: Advanced Collections)
by Jean-Noël Kapferer Joachim Kernstock Shaun M. Powell Tim Oliver BrexendorfPresenting some of the most significant research on the modern understanding of luxury, this edited collection of articles from the Journal of Brand Management explores the complex relationships consumers tie with luxury, and the unique characteristics of luxury brand management. Covering the segmentation of luxury consumers worldwide, the specificity of luxury management, the role of sustainability for luxury brands and major insights from a customer point of view, Advances in Luxury Brand Management is essential reading for upper level students as well as scholars and discerning practitioners.
Advances in Management Research: Emerging Challenges and Trends
by Debasis Chanda Amrita Sengupta Debaditya MohantiThe purpose of the present edited book ‘Advances in Management Research: Emerging Challenges and Trends’ is to provide a wide range of paradigmatic and theoretical substantive research articles in management research.
Advances in Management Research: Innovation and Technology (Mathematical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Management Sciences)
by Mangey Ram Avinash K. Shrivastava Sudhir Rana Amiya Kumar MohapatraThis book covers advancements across business domains in knowledge and information management. It presents research trends in the fields of management, innovation, and technology, and is composed of research papers that show applications of IT, analytics, and business operations in industry and in educational institutions. It offers a combination of scientific research methods and concepts, with contributions from globally renowned authors; presents various management domains from a number of countries for a global perspective; and provides a unique combination of topics and methods while giving insights on the management domain using a holistic approach. The book provides scholars with a platform to derive maximum utility in the area of management, research, and technology by subscribing to the idea of managing business through performance and management technology.
Advances in Managing Energy and Climate Risks: Financial, Climate and Environmental Sustainable Strategies (Lecture Notes in Energy #82)
by Stéphane Goutte Khaled Guesmi Raphaël Homayoun Boroumand Thomas PorcherThis book presents research related to energy and environmental technologies in the context of market liberalization and global warming. It focuses on the development and efficient use of alternative energy sources, implementation of sustainable energy policies, power generation, and energy finance. Advances in Managing Energy and Climate Risks provides readers with the necessary information to use energy sources more efficiently, discover cleaner energy sources and their applications, and urge consumers and producers to make changes to reach a carbon-neutral economy through financial, technological, regulatory and tax incentives.
Advances in Manufacturing (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Adam Hamrol Olaf Ciszak Stanisław Legutko Mieczysław JurczykThis book covers a variety of topics in material, mechanical, and management engineering, especially in the area of machine design, product assembly, measurement systems, process planning and quality control. It describes cutting-edge methods and applications, together with exemplary case studies. The content is based on papers presented at the 5th International Scientific-Technical Conference (MANUFACTURING 2017) held in Poznan, Poland on 24-26 October 2017. The book brings together engineering and economic topics, is intended as an extensive, timely and practice-oriented reference guide for researchers and practitioners, and is expected to foster better communication and closer cooperation between universities and their business and industry partners.
Advances in Manufacturing Engineering and Materials II: Proceedings of the International Conference on Manufacturing Engineering and Materials (ICMEM 2020), 21–25 June, 2021, Nový Smokovec, Slovakia (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Sergej Hloch Dagmar Klichová Grzegorz M. Krolczyk Somnath Chattopadhyaya Frank PudeThis book reports on cutting-edge research and technologies in the field of advanced manufacturing and materials, with a special emphasis on unconventional machining process, rapid prototyping and biomaterials. It gathers contributions to the International Conference on Manufacturing Engineering and Materials (ICMEM 2020), which was originally planned in June 2020, but will actually take place in 2021, in Nový Smokovec, Slovakia, because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite the challenging times, submitted contributions were peer-reviewed, and upon a careful revision, included in this book, which covers advances that are expected to increase the industry’s competitiveness with regard to sustainable development and preservation of the environment and natural resources. Condition monitoring, industrial automation, and diverse fabrication processes such as welding, casting and molding, as well as tribology and bioengineering, are just a few of the topics discussed in the book’s wealth of authoritative contributions. A special emphasis is given to problems connected to climate change and solution manufacturer and engineers may adopt and develop to prevent and cope with them.
Advances in Manufacturing II: Volume 2 - Production Engineering and Management (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Adam Hamrol Agnieszka Kujawińska Manuel Francisco BarrazaThis book covers a variety of topics in manufacturing, with a special emphasis on product design, production planning, and implementation of both resources and production processes. The content is based on papers presented at the 6th International Scientific Technical Conference MANUFACTURING 2019, held in Poznan, Poland on May 19-22, 2019. The main focus is on showing best practices to use tools currently available in the enterprises to effectively improving industrial processes. Knowledge and production flow management, decision-making systems, production leveling, enterprise efficiency, as well as maintenance, modeling and simulation of production processes are just some of the topics discussed in this book, which offers a timely and practice-oriented reference guide for applied researchers, product engineers and product managers.
Advances in Manufacturing II: Volume 3 - Quality Engineering and Management (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Adam Hamrol Marta Grabowska Damjan Maletic Ralf WollThis book covers a wide range of management issues, concerning planning, control and continuous improvement. It especially focuses on the management of the enterprise and production processes in the era of globalization, discussing the process of transferring production to developing countries, covering issues in technological culture, and reporting on quality control issues and on problems related to continuous process improvement. Modern strategies such as Six Sigma and lean manufacturing are also discussed. Another topic concerns the management of the education sphere, and how to develop the latter to prepare employees to the changes brought by the technical development. Based on papers presented at the 6th International Scientific-Technical Conference MANUFACTURING 2019, held in Poznan, Poland on May 19–22, 2019, this book bridges issues in quality engineering with concepts of ergonomics and sociology, thus offering a timely, practice-oriented guide to both the engineers and managers of the future.
Advances in Manufacturing II: Volume 3 - Quality Engineering and Management (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Adam Hamrol Marta Grabowska Damjan Maletic Ralf WollThis book covers a wide range of management issues, concerning planning, control and continuous improvement. It especially focuses on the management of the enterprise and production processes in the era of globalization, discussing the process of transferring production to developing countries, covering issues in technological culture, and reporting on quality control issues and on problems related to continuous process improvement. Modern strategies such as Six Sigma and lean manufacturing are also discussed. Another topic concerns the management of the education sphere, and how to develop the latter to prepare employees to the changes brought by the technical development. Based on papers presented at the 6th International Scientific-Technical Conference MANUFACTURING 2019, held in Poznan, Poland on May 19–22, 2019, this book bridges issues in quality engineering with concepts of ergonomics and sociology, thus offering a timely, practice-oriented guide to both the engineers and managers of the future.
Advances in Manufacturing III: Volume 2 - Production Engineering: Research and Technology Innovations, Industry 4.0 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Justyna Trojanowska Ivan Pavlenko Agnieszka Kujawińska Jose MachadoThis book reports on cutting-edge research and technology aimed at increasing the efficiency of production processes and to foster the implementation of Industry 4.0 solutions in manufacturing. Gathering peer-review contributions to the 7th International Scientific Technical Conference MANUFACTURING 2022, held in Poznan, Poland on May 16-19, 2022, it describes advanced engineering methods to optimize different stages and aspects of the production process, including product design, production scheduling, equipment maintenance and safety. It discusses the applications of augmented/virtual and mixed reality within the manufacturing industry and for education and training purposes, and highlights cutting-edge solutions for green and sustainable production. Offering a timely, practice-oriented reference guide for both researchers and practitioners in manufacturing, this book is also intended to contribute bridging the gap between university and industry, fostering a closer communication and cooperation between them.
Advances in Manufacturing III: Volume 3 - Quality Engineering: Research and Technology Innovations, Industry 4.0 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Adam Hamrol Marta Grabowska Damjan MaletičThis book reports on innovative strategies for quality control, risk assessment and sustainable development in production processes, in the era of industry 4.0. Based on peer-reviewed contributions to the 7th International Scientific-Technical Conference MANUFACTURING 2022, held on May 16–19, 2022, in Poznan, Poland, the chapters cover important topics relating to the use of quality management strategies in different stages of the production processes. They report on methods for statistical process control, vision control and inspection of machines, on the application of machine learning methods in quality control and/or risk assessment, on issues relating to digital transformation, and on methods to improve occupational safety. Besides industrial applications, the book also discusses the use quality management tools for educational purposes. By bridging between concepts in quality engineering, ergonomics, digitalization and industry 4.0, this book offers an authoritative source of information for researchers, engineers and managers.
Advances in Manufacturing IV: Volume 2 - Production Engineering: Digitalization, Sustainability and Industry Applications (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Justyna Trojanowska Ivan Pavlenko Agnieszka Kujawińska Jozef HusarThis book describes cutting-edge research and technologies aimed at increasing the efficiency of production processes and supporting the implementation of Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0 solutions in production. Gathering peer-review contributions to the 8th International Scientific-Technical Conference MANUFACTURING 2024, held on May 14–16, 2024, in Poznan, Poland, it reports on research on and applications of artificial intelligence and digital technologies to improve the production process. It also presents augmented/virtual and mixed reality tools that can be used or have been tested in the manufacturing industry and for education and training purposes. Last but not least, it highlights cutting-edge solutions for green and sustainable production. Offering a timely, practice-oriented reference guide for both researchers and practitioners in manufacturing, this book is also intended to bridge the gap between university and industry, fostering a closer communication and cooperation between them
Advances in Manufacturing IV: Volume 3 - Quality Engineering: Digitalization, Sustainability and Industry Applications (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Adam Hamrol Marta Grabowska Marcin HinzThis book covers timely topics in quality engineering, with a special focuses on issues relating to Industry 4.0 and 5.0. Based on peer-reviewed contributions to the 8th International Scientific-Technical Conference MANUFACTURING 2024, held on May 14–16, 2024, in Poznan, Poland, the chapters describe advanced engineering methods for managing quality and risk at different stages of the product lifecycle. They discusses the role of the sustainable development aspect in supply chain, in the context of product and business planning, production, and transportation, and the principles and best practices of circular economy. They also highlight the role of the human factor in Industry 5.0, and discuss educational issues. All in all, this book provides both researchers and practitioners with a timely guide on research in the broad area of quality engineering, covering human and environmental aspects of industrial production, and risk-based management methods.
Advances in Manufacturing Processes and Smart Manufacturing Systems: Smart Materials and Manufacturing Systems and Sustainable Management Operations, Volume 1 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1214)
by Denni Kurniawan Fethma M. NorThis book presents an exploration of contemporary challenges and opportunities in manufacturing and supply chain management, expected to provide insights for academics and industry professionals. This is the first volume of a two-volume proceedings series curated from over 100 submissions from the Global Congress on Manufacturing and Management (GCMM 2023) held in Kuching, Malaysia on December 4–7, 2023. The chapters cover a broad spectrum of industries, including automotive, electronics, food, and energy, with a wide range of topics, from the adoption of new technologies like induction stoves and electric vehicles, to the optimization of production facilities and supply chain resilience.