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Recent Advancements in Tourism Business, Technology and Social Sciences: 10th International Conference, IACuDiT, Crete, Greece, 2023 - Vol. 2 (Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics)
by Vicky Katsoni George CassarThe book features the second volume of the proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT), with the theme “Recent Advancements in Tourism Business, Technology, and Social Sciences,” which was held from August 29 to 31, 2023, in Crete, Greece. It showcases the latest research on Tourism Business, Technology, and Social Sciences and presents a critical academic discourse on smart and sustainable practices in the tourism industry, stimulating future debates and advancing readers’ knowledge and understanding of this critical area of tourism business in the post-COVID-19 era. COVID-19 produced dramatic effects on the global economy, business activities, and people, with tourism being particularly affected. The book discusses the resulting digital transformation process in a range of areas, including its effect on the social sciences combined with special forms of tourism. This accelerated digitalizationencourages the emergence of new digital products and services based on the principle of flexibility. The book focuses on the knowledge economy and smart destinations, as well as new modes of tourism management and development, and includes chapters on emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, big data, and robotics in connection with various tourism practices.
Recent Advancements in Tourism Business, Technology and Social Sciences: 10th International Conference, IACuDiT, Crete, Greece, 2023—Vol. 1 (Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics)
by Vicky Katsoni George CassarThe book features the first volume of the proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT), with the theme “Recent Advancements in Tourism Business, Technology, and Social Sciences,” which was held from August 29 to 31, 2023, in Crete, Greece. It showcases the latest research on Tourism Business, Technology, and Social Sciences and presents a critical academic discourse on smart and sustainable practices in the tourism industry, stimulating future debates and advancing readers’ knowledge and understanding of this critical area of tourism business in the post-COVID-19 era. COVID-19 produced dramatic effects on the global economy, business activities, and people, with tourism being particularly affected. The book discusses the resulting digital transformation process in a range of areas, including its effect on the social sciences combined with special forms of tourism. This accelerated digitalization encourages the emergence of new digital products and services based on the principle of flexibility. The book focuses on the knowledge economy and smart destinations, as well as new modes of tourism management and development, and includes chapters on emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, big data, and robotics in connection with various tourism practices.
Recent Advances and Future Directions in Causality, Prediction, and Specification Analysis
by Norman R. Swanson Xiaohong ChenThis book is a collection of articles that present the most recent cutting edge results on specification and estimation of economic models written by a number of the world's foremost leaders in the fields of theoretical and methodological econometrics. Recent advances in asymptotic approximation theory, including the use of higher order asymptotics for things like estimator bias correction, and the use of various expansion and other theoretical tools for the development of bootstrap techniques designed for implementation when carrying out inference are at the forefront of theoretical development in the field of econometrics. One important feature of these advances in the theory of econometrics is that they are being seamlessly and almost immediately incorporated into the "empirical toolbox" that applied practitioners use when actually constructing models using data, for the purposes of both prediction and policy analysis and the more theoretically targeted chapters in the book will discuss these developments. Turning now to empirical methodology, chapters on prediction methodology will focus on macroeconomic and financial applications, such as the construction of diffusion index models for forecasting with very large numbers of variables, and the construction of data samples that result in optimal predictive accuracy tests when comparing alternative prediction models. Chapters carefully outline how applied practitioners can correctly implement the latest theoretical refinements in model specification in order to "build" the best models using large-scale and traditional datasets, making the book of interest to a broad readership of economists from theoretical econometricians to applied economic practitioners.
Recent Advances in Agent-Based Negotiation: Applications and Competition Challenges (Studies in Computational Intelligence #1092)
by Takayuki Ito Rafik Hadfi Reyhan Aydoğan Ryuta ArisakaThis book comprises carefully selected and reviewed outcomes of the 13th International Workshop on Automated Negotiations (ACAN) held in Vienna, 2022, in conjunction with International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2022. It focuses on the applications and challenges of agent-based negotiation including agreement technology, mechanism design, electronic commerce, recommender systems, supply chain management, social choice theory, and others. This book is intended for the academic and industrial researchers of various communities of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, as well as graduate students studying in those areas or having interest in them.
Recent Advances in Agent-based Negotiation: Formal Models and Human Aspects (Studies in Computational Intelligence #958)
by Minjie Zhang Takayuki Ito Reyhan Aydoğan Ahmed Moustafa Takanobu OtsukaThis volume comprises carefully selected and reviewed outcomes of the 12th International Workshop on Automated Negotiations (ACAN) held in Macao, 2019, in conjunction with International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2019. It focuses on human aspects of automated negotiation and the recent advances in negotiation frameworks and strategies. Written by leading academic and industrial researchers, it is a valuable resource for professionals and scholars working on complex automated negotiations.
Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence in Cost Estimation in Project Management (Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Software and Systems Engineering #6)
by Mirjana Ivanovic Nevena Rankovic Dragica Ranković Ljubomir LazićThis book focuses on the practical application of AI tools and techniques in software project management, offering detailed theoretical explanations and practical examples of over 40 state-of-the-art machine learning and deep learning algorithms applied across each project phase, as well as in risk and resource management. Helping the business world estimate projects more accurately while saving costs and resources is crucial in today’s rapidly changing, fast-paced technological landscape. Moreover, it presents specific aspects of combined approaches through ensemble models, incorporating Taguchi’s optimization method to further improve estimation accuracy, advancing this area of software project management. A valuable resource for students and professionals to deepen their knowledge and skills, it also serves as a great manual for companies adopting smarter strategies to manage and develop projects more efficiently and effectively.
Recent Advances in Building Materials and Technologies: Select Proceedings of IACESD 2023 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #456)
by Sreevalsa Kolathayar N. Vinod Chandra Menon K. S. SreekeshavaThis book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (IACESD 2023) hosted under the aegis of the Group of Twenty (G20) and Civil 20 (C20) at Jyothy Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India. The topics covered in this book are sustainable materials with low embodied carbon, such as recycled steel, reclaimed wood and alternative binders like geopolymer concrete; renewable materials like bamboo and straw; energy-efficient technologies, including solar panels, energy-efficient insulation; and smart building systems. This book serves as a resource material for researchers and industry professionals interested in developing solutions for sustainable and resilient infrastructure that aims for communities with net zero targets.
Recent Advances in Civil Engineering for Sustainable Communities: Select Proceeding of IACESD 2023 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #459)
by Hugo Rodrigues Sreevalsa Kolathayar N. Vinod Chandra Menon K. S. SreekeshavaThis book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (IACESD 2023). The topics covered include geographic information systems (GIS) and building information modeling (BIM), integration of numerical methods for fluid flow modeling, and the revolutionary potential of 3D printing within the construction industry. This book serves as a resource material for researchers and industry professionals interested in developing solutions for sustainable and resilient infrastructure that aims for communities with Net Zero Targets.
Recent Advances in Credit Risk Modeling
by Christian Capuano Jorge Chan-Lau Carlos Medeiros Marcos Souto Giancarlo Gasha Andre SantosA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Recent Advances in Econometrics and Statistics: Festschrift in Honour of Marc Hallin
by Matteo Barigozzi Siegfried Hörmann Davy PaindaveineThis volume presents a unique collection of original research contributions by leading experts in several modern fields of econometrics and statistics, including high-dimensional, nonparametric and robust statistics, time series analysis and factor models. Published in honour of Marc Hallin on the occasion of his 75th birthday, it puts emphasis on the fundamental and applied topics he has significantly contributed to. The volume starts with an annotated bibliography that mainly catalogues his contributions to distribution-free rank-based and quantile-oriented inference and to time series analysis. The main part of the book collects 29 authoritative contributions by some of Marc Hallin’s main collaborators, organized into six parts: rank- and depth-based methods, asymptotic statistics, quantile regression, econometrics, statistical modelling and related topics, and high-dimensional and non-Euclidean data.
Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy: Proceedings of the CIT 2020 Volume 1 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #762)
by Angela Díaz Cadena Henry Cruz Miguel Botto TobarThis book constitutes the proceedings of the XV Multidisciplinary International Congress on Science and Technology (CIT 2020), held in Quito, Ecuador, on 26–30 October 2020, proudly organized by Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE in collaboration with GDEON. CIT is an international event with a multidisciplinary approach that promotes the dissemination of advances in Science and Technology research through the presentation of keynote conferences. In CIT, theoretical, technical, or application works that are research products are presented to discuss and debate ideas, experiences, and challenges. Presenting high-quality, peer-reviewed papers, the book discusses the following topics:• Electrical and Electronic• Energy and Mechanics
Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy: Proceedings of the CIT 2020 Volume 2 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #763)
by Angela Díaz Cadena Henry Cruz Miguel Botto TobarThis book constitutes the proceedings of the XV Multidisciplinary International Congress on Science and Technology (CIT 2020), held in Quito, Ecuador, on 26–30 October 2020, proudly organized by Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE in collaboration with GDEON. CIT is an international event with a multidisciplinary approach that promotes the dissemination of advances in Science and Technology research through the presentation of keynote conferences. In CIT, theoretical, technical, or application works that are research products are presented to discuss and debate ideas, experiences, and challenges. Presenting high-quality, peer-reviewed papers, the book discusses the following topics:• Electrical and Electronic• Energy and Mechanics
Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions: Proceedings of 2nd Euro-Mediterranean Conference for Environmental Integration (EMCEI-2), Tunisia 2019 (Environmental Science and Engineering)
by Jörg Römbke Vincenzo Naddeo Sandeep Panda Amjad Kallel Mohamed Ksibi Nabil Khélifi Helder I. Chaminé Maurizio Barbieri Elena Xoplaki Abdelazim Negm Achraf Ghorbal Sudip Chakraborty Giulia Guerriero Olfa Hentati Anthony Lehmann Armando Costa Duarte Gilles Colinet João Miguel Dias Imed Gargouri Eric D. Van Hullebusch Benigno Sánchez Cabrero Settimio Ferlisi Chedly Tizaoui Sami Rtimi Philippe Michaud Jaya Narayana Sahu Mongi SeffenThis book includes over three hundred and seventy-five short papers presented during the second EMCEI, which was held in Sousse, Tunisia in October 2019. After the success of the first EMCEI in 2017, the second installment tackled emerging environmental issues together with new challenges, e.g. by focusing on innovative approaches that contribute to achieving a sustainable environment in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions and by highlighting to decision makers from related sectors the environmental considerations that should be integrated into their respective activities. Presenting a wide range of environmental topics and new findings relevant to a variety of problems in these regions, this volume will appeal to anyone working in the subject area and particularly to students interested in learning more about new advances in environmental research initiatives in view of the worsening environmental degradation of the Mediterranean and surrounding regions, which has made environmental and resource protection into an increasingly important issue hampering sustainable development and social welfare.
Recent Advances in Estimating Nonlinear Models
by Jun Ma Mark WoharNonlinear models have been used extensively in the areas of economics and finance. Recent literature on the topic has shown that a large number of series exhibit nonlinear dynamics as opposed to the alternative--linear dynamics. Incorporating these concepts involves deriving and estimating nonlinear time series models, and these have typically taken the form of Threshold Autoregression (TAR) models, Exponential Smooth Transition (ESTAR) models, and Markov Switching (MS) models, among several others. This edited volume provides a timely overview of nonlinear estimation techniques, offering new methods and insights into nonlinear time series analysis. It features cutting-edge research from leading academics in economics, finance, and business management, and will focus on such topics as Zero-Information-Limit-Conditions, using Markov Switching Models to analyze economics series, and how best to distinguish between competing nonlinear models. Principles and techniques in this book will appeal to econometricians, finance professors teaching quantitative finance, researchers, and graduate students interested in learning how to apply advances in nonlinear time series modeling to solve complex problems in economics and finance.
Recent Advances in Green Technologies and Sustainable Development
by Rekha Nair Piyusha Somvanshi Mahesh M BundeleRecent advances in green technologies and sustainable development deals with cutting-edge research and innovative ideas in different categories of green technologies and operational aspects of sustainable development including renewable energy sources, power systems, mathematical ecol□ogy, industrial technologies, construction and material sciences. The chapters are written by eminent and insightful authors to propose improvement and expansion of processes and applications connected to sustainable development. Environmental awareness and protection are one of the challenging issues of the new millennia. Industrialization and population explosion has opened new frontiers in the conservation of environmental protection. Rapid urbanization is proving to have direct consequences on the environment. The need of the hour is a balanced approach to multi layered conservative methods. Any sustainable devel□opment has a multifaceted approach, encompassing environmental, tech□nological, social, and economical developmental dimensions. This book focuses on these various issues in a progressive manner. The selected papers in this book have highlighted a plethora of issues related to green technology and sustainable development. Ample care has been given to selecting the papers which tried to bridge the gap between technological advancement and its impact on the environment.
Recent Advances in Information Technology
by Waldemar Wόjcik & Jan SikoraInformation Technology is applicable in all areas of life. As a result, computer science is essential to imagine the modern world. Recent advances in information technology represents only a small part of today’s computing applications which were the subject of international cooperation between Kazakh, Ukrainian and Polish scientists. A wide range of issues and topics is addressed, from game theory to advanced control issues: - Application of new computational models and their security problems- The integro-differential game approach - Application of information technology for automated translation, from inflected languages to sign language- Mathematical problems of complex systems investigation under uncertainties Recent advances in information technology is of interest to academics and engineers, and to professionals involved in information technology and its applications.
Recent Advances in Labour Economics (Routledge Library Editions: Labour Economics #9)
by John Treble Gillian HutchinsonFirst published in 1984. This book presents a great deal of research findings, new advances in theory and comprehensive overviews of key aspects of labour economics. It examines the latest trends in the field and assesses the impact of recent policies together with the likely impact of proposed policies. This study covers a wide range of topics but concentrates in particular on questions connected with the economics of trade unions which is a major area of concern for labour economists.
Recent Advances in Modeling and Forecasting Kaiyu: Tools for Predicting and Verifying the Effects of Urban Revitalization Policy (New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives #36)
by Saburo Saito Kosuke Yamashiro Kenichi IshibashiThis book is the first comprehensive presentation of a Kaiyu Markov model with covariates and a multivariate Poisson model with competitive destinations. These two models are core techniques when the authors and colleagues conduct their Kaiyu studies. The two models are usually used to forecast the effects of specific urban redevelopment on both the number of visitors and consumer shop-around or Kaiyu movements. Their Kaiyu studies originated from the constructions of a Kaiyu Markov model and the disaggregated hierarchical decision Huff model almost simultaneously around the early 1980s. This book retrospectively reviews how these models have evolved from the start to the present state, and previews the ongoing efforts to make further extensions of these models. The extension of the Huff model started from the disaggregated hierarchical decision Huff model with shop-arounds. In retrospect, the model formulated the consumer’s simultaneous choice of destinations as a joint probability. The mechanism to determine this joint probability was a recursive conditional probability system. Now the Huff model has shifted from joint probability to multivariate frequency Poisson with competitive destinations. On the other hand, the Kaiyu Markov model started from a descriptive model. Because it cannot forecast changes in shop-arounds or consumer Kaiyu behaviors, the Kaiyu Markov model with covariates was developed in which entrance and shop-around choice probabilities are explained by the respective two logit models with covariates such as distances and shop-floor areas. The noticeable point is that it can explain consumers’ probability of quitting their shop-arounds. Thus, the model enables one to evaluate the effects of urban revitalization policy that promotes consumers’ shop-arounds or Kaiyu behaviors. Furthermore, if the Kaiyu Markov model can estimate the actual numbers of flows of consumers’ shop-arounds among shopping sites, the corresponding money flows also can be estimated as economic effects. This book discusses from scratch the evolution of all these topics. Thus this book provides the basics of the Kaiyu Markov model, a tutorial for the theory and estimation of the conditional logit model, and a chapter serving as a practical research manual for forecasting changes caused by urban development based on consumers’ Kaiyu behaviors.
Recent Advances in Operations Management Applications: Select Proceedings of CIMS 2020 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Pradeep Kumar Anish Sachdeva Mohit Tyagi O. P. YadavThis book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial and Manufacturing Systems (CIMS 2020). It presents the current scenarios and future advancements in the domain of industrial engineering under context of optimum value. Various topics covered include optimisation and its applicability in the various areas of industrial engineering like selection of designing parameters and, decisions related to conditions of optimum process/operation parameters, facilities planning and management, transportation and supply chain management, quality engineering, reliability and maintenance, system optimization, product design and development, human factors and ergonomics, project management, service system and service management, waste management, sustainable manufacturing and operations, systems design, lean manufacturing, and performance measurement. This book will be useful for the students, researchers and professionals working in the area of industrial and production engineering.
Recent Advances in Operations Management and Optimization: Select Proceedings of CPIE 2023 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by J. Paulo Davim Anish Sachdeva Rajiv Kumar Garg Kapil Kumar GoyalThe book presents the select proceedings of International Conference on Production and Industrial Engineering (CPIE) 2023. It covers the current and latest research methods for development and implementation of operation. Various topics covered include selection of designing parameters, decisions related to conditions of optimum process/operation parameters, facilities planning and management, transportation and supply chain management, quality engineering, reliability and maintenance, product design and development, human factors and ergonomics, project management, service system and service management, waste management, sustainable manufacturing, and operations. The book is useful for researchers and professionals working in manufacturing, industrial engineering, systems engineering, and production engineering.
Recent Advances in Postharvest Technologies, Volume 1: Advanced and Novel Technologies
by Noureddine BenkebliaThe elapsing time from producer to consumer has significantly increased as a result of food marketing and trade globalization. Consequently, maintaining quality along the food value chain is becoming a significant challenge. Postharvest losses are considered a major component of food loss and waste in the supply chain from farmers to consumers, due to improper handling, storage, transport, preservation techniques and spoilage. Postharvest science aims to extend the shelf life of fresh and perishable commodities, and to reduce heavy losses, thereby contributing to food security. While significant progresses have been made in postharvest preservation and shelf-life extension, the continuous development of emerging technologies have changed our vision on postharvest science. Furthermore, recent advancements in molecular engineering of horticultural crops for quality improvement; the development of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics have led to a better understanding of the physiology and the biochemistry of the senescence processes, resulting in better preservation and improved production of fresh crops. This two-volume work focuses on innovative technologies that extend and preserve shelf life of fruits and vegetables. Volume 1 offers a review on the state-of-the-art modern technologies in the postharvest filed. The accompanying Volume 1 explores advanced and novel technologies after harvest, particularly the application of nanotechnologies to packaging materials.
Recent Advances in Postharvest Technologies, Volume 2: Postharvest Applications
by Noureddine BenkebliaThe elapsing time from producer to consumer has significantly increased as a result of food marketing and trade globalization. Consequently, maintaining quality along the food value chain is becoming a significant challenge. Postharvest losses are considered a major component of food loss and waste in the supply chain from farmers to consumers, due to improper handling, storage, transport, preservation techniques and spoilage. Postharvest science aims to extend the shelf life of fresh and perishable commodities, and to reduce heavy losses, thereby contributing to food security. While significant progresses have been made in postharvest preservation and shelf-life extension, the continuous development of emerging technologies have changed our vision on postharvest science. Furthermore, recent advancements in molecular engineering of horticultural crops for quality improvement; the development of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics have led to a better understanding of the physiology and the biochemistry of the senescence processes, resulting in better preservation and improved production of fresh crops. This two-volume work focuses on innovative technologies that extend and preserve shelf life of fruits and vegetables. Volume 1 offers a review on the state of the art modern technologies in the postharvest filed. The accompanying Volume 2 explores advanced and novel technologies after harvest, particularly the application of nanotechnologies to packaging materials.
Recent Advances in Power Electronics and Drives: Select Proceedings of EPREC 2020 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #707)
by Jitendra Kumar Premalata JenaThis book presents select proceedings of the Electric Power and Renewable Energy Conference 2020 (EPREC-2020). It provides rigorous discussions, case studies, and recent developments in the emerging areas of power electronics, especially, power inverter and converter, electrical drives, regulated power supplies, operation of FACTS & HVDC, etc. The readers would be benefited in enhancing their knowledge and skills in these domain areas. The book will be a valuable reference for beginners, researchers, and professionals interested in advancements in power electronics and drives.
Recent Advances in Power Electronics and Drives: Select Proceedings of EPREC 2021 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #852)
by Bhim Singh Shailendra Kumar Arun Kumar SinghThis book contains select proceedings of EPREC-2021 with a focus on power electronics and drives. The book includes original research and case studies that present recent developments in power electronics focusing on power inverters and converters. The book also consists of research work on electrical drives, regulated power supplies, operation of FACTS & HVDC, etc. The book will be a valuable reference guide for beginners, researchers, and professionals interested in the advancements of power electronics and drives.
Recent Advances in Power Electronics and Drives: Select Proceedings of EPREC 2022 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #973)
by Bhim Singh Shailendra Kumar Vijay Kumar SoodThis book presents select proceedings of the Electric Power and Renewable Energy Conference 2022 (EPREC-2022). It provides rigorous discussions, case studies, and recent developments in the emerging areas of power electronics, especially power inverters and converter, electrical drives, regulated power supplies, operation of FACTS and HVDC, etc. The readers would be benefited from enhancing their knowledge and skills in these domain areas. The book is a valuable reference for beginners, researchers, and professionals interested in advancements in power electronics and drives.