Predictive analytics can forecast trends, determines statistical probabilities and to act upon fraud and security threats for big data applications. Predictive analytics as a service (PAaaS) framework based upon ensemble model that uses Gaussian process with varying hyper parameters, Artificial...

The notion of the quality of life has always intrigued economists, sociologists and other researchers in the area of social science. Since the genesis of the definition of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a truthful measure of well-being and economic development, other sophisticated methodologies...

This paper explores changes (1990-2000) in two environmental indexes with the aim of providing empirical evidence on regional and local convergence in an increasing-impact phenomenon such as Land Degradation (LD) in Italy. Convergence analysis for ESAI (Environmental Sensitive Area Index) and...