In modern workforce management, the demand for new ways to maximize worker satisfaction, productivity, and security levels is endless. Workforce movement data such as those source data from an access control system can support this ongoing process with subsequent analysis. In this study, a...

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Negotiation is a long-standing process during procurement. Depending upon the size, volume, and nature of the business, the criticality of the negotiation process varies. For an efficient negotiation of a large and medium-size enterprise, historical information plays a vital role. Traditional...

August 29, 2005. Hurricane Katrina made landfall and caused catastrophic damage along the coastlines of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana killing at least 1,836 people [12]. Nearly 80 percent of the city of New Orleans and surrounding areas were ravaged. Katrina is estimated to be responsible...

Measuring the success of entrepreneurship education is complex with several issues. Firstly, metrics used are varied, for example using self-efficacy and business creation. In addition, students may be from any school of the university and had varying interaction with entrepreneurship education...

This open access book covers the use of data science, including advanced machine learning, big data analytics, Semantic Web technologies, natural language processing, social media analysis, time series analysis, among others, for applications in economics and finance. In addition, it shows some...

This open access book presents the foundations of the Big Data research and innovation ecosystem and the associated enablers that facilitate delivering value from data for business and society. It provides insights into the key elements for research and innovation, technical architectures,...

Financial data volumes are increasing, and this appears to be a long-term trend, implying that data management development will be crucial over the next few decades. Because financial data is sometimes real-time data, it is constantly generated, resulting in a massive amount of financial data...

When we think about running enterprise applications on-premises, enterprises do two things for their servers, databases, and storage. Enterprises provision for peaks and put a lot of infrastructures to handle peak demand, although a lot of this capacity is not used at normal times. The other...

Combining some examples with the recognized purpose of both data visualization and business intelligence the paper tries to emphasize: advantages, lacks, limits, actualities, and potential trends in this field. Most of the figures are the result of practical tests, except the last one which is a...

To analyze complex phenomena which involve moving objects, Trajectory Data Warehouse (TDW) seems to be an answer for many recent decision problems related to various professions (physicians, commercial representatives, transporters, ecologists… concerned with mobility. This work aims to make...

Part I. Pricing -- Chapter 1. The Retailer’s Pricing Challenge -- Chapter 2. Understanding Demand and Elasticity -- Chapter 3. Improving the List Price -- Chapter 4. Optimizing Markdowns and Promotions -- Part II. Inventory Management -- Chapter 5. Product (Re-)distribution and Replenishment...

Empirical researchers studying party systems often struggle with the question of how to count parties. Indexes of party system fragmentation used to address this problem (e.g., the effective number of parties) have a fundamental shortcoming: since the same index value may represent very...

As the European Reporting Framework (ERF): Key facts and information1 report has recognised, some countries have already implemented integrated "statistical" and supervisory reporting requirements at a granular level. Croatia is one of these countries. Moreover, Croatia has been able to produce...

We develop a theory of banking that explains why banks started out as commodities warehouses. We show that warehouses become banks because their superior storage technology allows them to enforce the repayment of loans most effectively. Further, interbank markets emerge endogenously to support...