"This book capture the state of the art trends and advancements in big data analytics, its technologies, and applications. The book also aims to identify potential research directions and technologies that will facilitate insight generation in various domains of science, industry, business, and...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preamble: Wellington and Waterloo -- Introduction -- Notes -- Prologue: What Do We Mean by Work? -- Summary -- Introduction -- Slavery or Freedom? -- The Rise of Industrialisation -- Gen Z and the Flat White Society -- The...

In this paper the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in on-line booking for hotel industry is investigated. The paper details the description, the modeling and the resolution technique of on-line booking. The latter problem is modeled using the paradigms of machine learning, in place of...

Increasingly the digital content used in everyday life has little or no human intervention in its creation. Typically, when such content is delivered to consumers it comes with attached claims of copyright. However, depending on the jurisdiction, approaches to ownership of computer-generated...

This paper proposes formal computational descriptions of “what can go wrong” (WCGW) in an enterprise. Further, it introduces the idea that these formal WCGW artifacts can be represented as patterns that can be stored in an open knowledge repository (OKR), in a format that allows access to...

ADRIS was a three year research project whose main target was to develop technologies to increase the efficiency of the preparatory works needed to open new exploitation areas in underground coal mines. The project was intended to identify the main automation needs for coal mining roadheading...