The current Energy Market is not yet ready for the integration of the Smart Grid context. Concepts such as Demand Response and Distributed Generation, namely renewable energy resources, are not yet included in current business models in order to the system flow properly. Therefore, the authors...

The research field of data analysis and mining has attracted the interest of both academia and industry in recent years. This reprint contains 17 papers, which cover different topics of the broad research field of data analysis and mining. Each paper presents new data mining algorithms and...

While individual investors may have more diverse preferences and trading behavior than institutional investors due to their lack of professional education, many studies tend to lump individual investors together or classify them by socio-demographic characteristics. We conducted an empirical...