This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry, FinanceCom 2016, held in Frankfurt, Germany, in December 2016. The 2016 workshop especially focused on “The Analytics Revolution in...

Electricity infrastructure confronts societies with immense costs as it must ensure the generation of power and its transmission to locations with consumption requirements. We minimize these costs by formulating an electricity generation and transmission problem that facilitates the design of...

Information systems experience an ever-growing volume of unstructured data, particularly in the form of textual materials. This represents a rich source of information from which one can create value for people, organizations and businesses. For instance, recommender systems can benefit from...

Before shares of a company are sold to the general public on a security exchange for the first time, regulatory publication requirements force U.S. firms to file an initial public offering prospectus. While accounting information in IPO filings are closely studied by investors and analysts,...

Successful companies are increasingly those companies that excel in the task of extracting knowledge from data. Tapping the source of Big Data requires powerful algorithms combined with a strong understanding of the data used. One of the key challenges in predictive analytics is the...

The European Power Exchange (EPEX) introduced two new products in 2011 and 2014 which reduce the delivery duration of electricity from 1 hour to 15-min intervals. These changes to the market design aim to better reflect the intermittent power generation from renewable energy sources. However,...