Business Intelligence (BI) is an important area of the Decision Support Systems (DSS) discipline. Over the past years, the evolution in this area has been considerable. Similarly, in the last years, there has been a huge growth and consolidation of the Data Mining (DM) field. DM is being used...

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) can be defined as systems in which physical objects are represented in the digital world and integrated with computation, storage, and communication capabilities and are connected to each other in a network. The goal in the use of the CPS is integrating the dynamics...

"The aim of the book is to present an insight into Lean Thinking as a philosophy that allows you to identify problems / wastes in various areas, analyze them and identify activities that allow you to improve processes in many areas. As Lean Thinking is a philosophy that applies to many areas,...

A thorny problem in identifying the determinants of reservation wages and particularly the role of continued joblessness in their evolution is the simultaneity issue. We deploy a natural control function approach to the problem that involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed...