This paper explores how technologies can interrupt concentration, focus and attention of knowledge workers. The mechanisms by which an interruption takes attention away and the task performance decreases are unknown. The paper explores this impact of interruptions through neuroimaging. Subjects...

The purpose of this article is to develop models that can help team selectors build talented teams with minimum possible spending. In this study, we build several predictive models for predicting the selection of a player in the Indian Premier League, a cricket league, based on each player’s...

Many studies have shown that there is a connection between climate change and crime rate. Following a research goal posed by the hypothetical Techno Heat Center to investigate the dynamics and specific elements of natural phenomena on crime, the following specific problems are studied in this...

A patient develops different diseases over time. There is a lack of research looking into the development of diseases over hospital visits. In this paper, we present a step-by-step process to find the sequences of diseases developed over hospital visits. In addition, we applied game theory lens...

In physics, at the beginning of the twentieth century it was recognized that some experiments could not be explained by the conventional classical mechanics but the same could be explained by the newly discovered quantum theory. It resulted into a new mechanics called quantum mechanics that...

Online social networks (OSNs) produce a huge volume of content and clickstream data over time as a result of continuous social interactions between users. Because these social interactions are not fully observable, the mining of such social streams is more complex than traditional data streams....