"The primary objective of this book is to provide a comprehensive resource that highlights the innovative applications of AI, Blockchain, and Cloud Computing in the public sector"-- Provided by publisher

The advent of cloud computing promises to improve the way firms utilize IT solutions. Firms are expected to replace large and inflexible fixed-cost investments in IT with more targeted variable spending in cloud solutions. In addition, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of...

"Cloud Kitchens" are delivery-only facilities that house multiple restaurants. Food-delivery platforms operate such kitchens to exploit two advantages: (i) Location advantage, arising due to a cloud-kitchen's central location this enables lower delivery times to customers. (ii) Consolidation...

Uncertainty regarding ownership of information stored, created, processed, and distributed in cloud environments presents a potential obstacle to the development of the cloud market. This paper addresses these issues in the context of information flows between cloud providers and their...

The coronavirus disease pandemic and live streaming e-commerce continue to substantially influence e-commerce worldwide, accelerating the transformation and upgrading of warehouses. Cloud warehouses are suitable for the current environment, and applying them in real life is necessary. We...

Motivated by the rapid growth of the Cloud Cost Management and Optimization (CCMO) industry to support the exploding cloud-computing market, we study an infinite-horizon, stochastic optimization problem from the viewpoint of a firm that employs cloud resources to process incoming orders (or...

This study presents an analysis of three models associated with artificial intelligence as tools to forecast the generation of urban solid waste in the city of Bogota, in order to learn about this type of waste's behaviour. The analysis was carried out in such a manner that different efficient...

As developers and companies around the world recognize the ineffeciency and costs associated with maintaining their own datacenters and computer hardware, the cloud providers beckon, offering worry-free maintenance, unlimited scalability, substantial cost savings, and automatic updating....

Technological innovations have already started to gain momentum within the past decade in M-commerce platform. Mobile espousal has revolutionized the e-commerce. The aim of this paper is to investigate how Cloud Computing is effective to M-commerce. The cloud computing is one of the latest...

Many cloud-based marketing programs, ranging from CRM systems to marketing automation solutions, are already widely used. These services let marketers monitor campaigns and activities across mobile, social, and Web platforms, as well as customer interactions. As Internet usage has spread across...