Business analytics aims to enable organizations to make quicker, better, and more
intelligent decisions with the aim to create business value. To date, the major focus in the …

The so-called “smartization” of manufacturing industries has been conceived as the fourth
industrial revolution or Industry 4.0, a paradigm shift propelled by the upsurge and …

Investment in a financial market is aimed at getting higher benefits; this complex market is
influenced by a large number of events wherein the prediction of future market dynamics is …

Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

Managing, processing and understanding big healthcare data is challenging, costly and
demanding. Without a robust fundamental theory for representation, analysis and inference …

Decision making needs more support to gain momentum with increasing trend in big data
analytics. Conventionally, descriptive and predictive analytics supported the decision …

Data analytics has gathered a lot of attention during the last years. Although descriptive and
predictive analytics have become well-established areas, prescriptive analytics has just …

Maintenance combines various methods, tools, and techniques in a bid to reduce
maintenance costs while increasing the reliability, availability, and security of equipment …

There exists a class of problems in e-commerce and retail businesses where the shopping
behavior of customers is analyzed in order to predict their repeat behavior for products or …

Prescriptive analytics has emerged as a technological driver in data-intensive enterprise
environments, as it tries to transform valuable insights into actionable recommendations and …