"[This book] is an essential reference source for the latest scholarly research on the risks and opportunities of utilizing the latest technologies in different aspects of society such as education, healthcare systems, and corporations. Featuring extensive coverage on a broad range of topics and...

This book explores the contribution space systems might make in dealing with looming societal challenges related to threats to the physical environment and the management of natural resources, growing mobility and its consequences, increasing security concerns, and the shift to the information...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Data for Analytics in Small Businesses -- Chapter 3: Business Analytics Consulting -- Chapter 4: Business Analytics Consulting Phases -- Chapter 5: Descriptive Analytics Tools -- Chapter 6: Predicting Numeric Outcomes -- Chapter 7: Classification Techniques...

This handbook provides a survey of both the foundations of and recent advances in the frontiers of analysis and action. It is both historically and interdisciplinarily rich and also tightly connected to the rise of digital society. It begins with the conventional view of computational economics,...