Economy & Finance

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is a mechanism which is monitored and controlled by computer-based algorithms. In the construction sector, CPS systems helps in increasing the efficiency of building projects with lower costs, lesser time, and management effort.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of Brazilian economic thought ranging from colonial times through to the early 21st Century.

This book covers both conceptual and procedural aspects of cutting-edge data mining methods, and the path for transitioning from classical statistics and modern data science. Readers will learn how various open source and commercial software modules can be properly applied to different situations.

This book provides a comprehensive, conceptual, and detailed overview of the wide range of applications of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science and how these technologies have an impact on various domains such as healthcare, business, industry, security, and how all countries around the world are feeling this impact.

This book investigates the role of data mining in computational statistics for machine learning. It offers applications that can be used in various domains and examines the role of transformation functions in optimizing problem statements.

The bright future of green IoT will change our tomorrow environment to become healthier and green, with very high quality of service that is socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable. This book covers the most recent advances in IoT, it discusses Smart City implementation, and offers both quantitative and qualitative research.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted supply chains and corporations must devise and realign their policies and strategies accordingly, to stay competitive in this dynamic situation. This book provides tools to cope with such a scenario and to make appropriate decisions to come out unscathed.

This book shows how to build and maintain a distinctive and credible employer brand, and develop a set of relevant success metrics to help measure ROI. Starting with the current interest in employer branding, this book looks at the historical roots of brand management and the practical steps to achieve employer brand management success.

The focus of this book is to introduce Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies into the context of Business Management. The book gives insights into the implementation and impact of AI and ML to business leaders, managers, technology developers, and implementers.

The book addresses the needs of researchers on the fundamentals as well as more advanced knowledge on microgrids and their evolution. It covers newly emerging trends in fields such as Computer Science, Energy, Electrical Engineering, and Electronics and brings the reader up-to-date on the new emerging fields.

The book will discuss the statistical methods involved, covers the development of academic writing skills for a higher impact, teaches learning theories, and uses a structured and holistic approach for educational research proposal development.

This book addresses the challenges for the development of Computational Intelligence based WSN for various applications in public management system. It presents theoretical, methodological, well-established and validated empirical work related to the subject.

This book discusses about data science overview, scientific methods, data processing, extraction of meaningful information from data, and insight for developing the concept from different domains, highlighting mathematical and statistical models, computer programming, machine learning, data visualization, pattern recognition and others.

This book covers responsible business practices and sustainability in the fashion textile supply chain, from the raw fibre stage, through production, to the point of customer consumption.

These books cover the role of organizational psychology and human factors in aerospace and other extreme environments. The set includes cutting-edge research and implementation of applied psychology in the setting of spaceflight. Although the set is focused on spaceflight, the editors have also included findings from other extreme environments.

The two-volume set includes cutting-edge research and implementation of applied psychology in spaceflight. This book covers challenges of spaceflight and research related to organizational psychology and human factors. Chapters include research related to composing, training, and supporting teams that will live and work together.

This volume will be of interest to professionals in the field of human psychology in extreme environments.

This book promotes an understanding and a greater level of resilient health care. The book provides an awareness to health care workers of the purposeful muddling that so evocatively describes their work, so that they are more informed, and become better able to function and operate in the multitude of complex ecosystems.

This book provides insights into contemporary issues and challenges in soft computing applications and techniques in healthcare.

Although green innovation and technology is not new, so far very limited information is available regarding the diversified approaches for green technologies and engineering. This book will highlight the challenges, opportunities, and roadmap for using various approaches in the most cost-effective way.

Predictive analytics refers to making predictions about the future based on different parameters which are historical data, machine learning, and artificial intelligences. This book provides the most recent advances in the field along with case studies and real-world examples.

This Handbook offers state of the art scholarship on the perspective known as the Communicative Constitution of Organizations (CCO).