In the course of third-party logistics (3PL), manufacturing and trading firms outsource complex, customized services and service bundles based on multi-year contracts. These contracts need to be designed according to relationship characteristics and be adjusted to changes that occur during the...

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich erstmalig mit der Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung von Unternehmen aus 13 West-, Mittel- und Osteuropäischen Ländern. Die Arbeit kann in zwei Teile aufgeteilt werden: Zur Darstellung des Status quo und zur Aufdeckung von Unterschieden in der...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Basics -- Chapter 2: Basic Charts -- Chapter 3: Summarizing Data -- Chapter 4: Survey Design -- Chapter 5: Sampling -- Chapter 6: Correlation -- Chapter 7: Simple Linear Regression -- Index -- Adpage -- Backcover

Stock price forecasting is a classic problem facing analysts. Forecasting models have been developed for predicting individual stocks and stock indices around the world and in numerous industries. According to a literature review, these models have yet to be applied to the restaurant industry....

One way to enhance the likelihood that more university students will graduate within the specific major that they begin with is to attract the type of students who have typically (historically) done well in that field of study. This paper expands upon a study that utilizes data mining...

Temporal association rule mining is a data mining technique in which relationships between items which satisfy certain timing constraints can be discovered. This paper presents the concept of temporal association rules in order to solve the problem of classification of inventories by including...

Social media has gained a lot of importance in this modern high-speed world where people sprint to save every bit of time and money. Social media, considered “big data”, is finding legitimate and practical uses in political campaigns, job applications, business promotion, professional...

“Big Data” is an emerging term used with business, engineering, and other domains. Although Big Data is a popular term used today, it is not a new concept. However, the means in which data can be collected is more readily available than ever, which makes Big Data more relevant than ever...