"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.

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.

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...

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 --...

In this paper we put forward a Bayesian Model Averaging method dealing with model uncertainty in the presence of potential spatial autocorrelation. The method uses spatial filtering in order to account for different types of spatial links. We contribute to existing methods that handle spatial...