"This book explores the challenges of supporting big data processing and cloud-based platforms as a proposed solution, emphasizing a number of crucial topics such as data analytics, wireless networks, mobile clouds, and machine learning"--Provided by publisher.

As a result of today's competitive business environment, companies have been trying to improve the utilization of funds effectively in their budgets for information technology investments. These companies retrieve more information with the same set of resources by means of business intelligence...

pt. I. Modern auditing and the IT revolution -- pt. II. Audit of computerised information systems -- pt. III. Audit automation and contemporary IT challenges -- pt. IV. Auditing and IT : theoretical perspectives and practical implications -- pt. V. Auditing and the IT challenge.

Grundlagen der IT-gestützten Logistik -- IT-gestütztes Logistiksystem -- Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien als Enabler -- Prozesse und Anwendungen der IT-gestützten Logistik: Beschaffungs-, Produktions-, Lager-, (Re-)Distributions-, Instandhaltungslogistik, Supply Chain --...

Acknowledgment -- Consumer analytics : fuzzy applications -- A new perspective on RFM analysis / Mohammad Hasan Aghdaie, Parham Fami -- A novel approach to segmentation using customer locations data and intelligent techniques / Baar Öztayi, Ugur Gokdere, Ms. Esra Nur Simsek, Ceren Salkin Oner...

This paper shows how to build algorithms that use graphics processing units (GPUs) installed in most modern computers to solve dynamic equilibrium models in economics. In particular, we rely on the compute uni.ed device architecture (CUDA) of NVIDIA GPUs. We illustrate the power of the approach...