Operational Research in the Digital Era ICT Challenges

Highlights the role and importance of OR in the digital era and the underlying ICT challengesPresents new methodological developments and recent advances in ORIncludes applications and case studies in a wide range of fields including ICT, digital economy, supply chain management, and finance

Highlights the role and importance of operational research in the digital era and the underlying Information and communication technology challenges Presents new methodological developments and recent advances in OR Includes applications and case studies in a wide range of fields including ICT, digital economy, supply chain management, and finance

Auteur

Angelo Sifaleras is an Assistant Professor of Mathematical Programming - Network Optimization at the University of Macedonia, Department of Applied Informatics, School of Information Sciences, Greece, Thessaloniki. His research focuses on algorithms and models for network optimization problems. Currently, he serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research (YUJOR) and he is also a senior member of ACM. Konstantinos Petridis received his Ph.D in Operational Research at Democritus University. His research interests and expertise lie in quantitative methods: mathematical programming models for optimization and design of supply chain networks, mathematical programming models for forest and agricultural scheduling and production and data envelopment analysis models for various scientific fields (bioenergy, computer science, scientometrics, energy). Furthermore, he is working on the field of e-waste management applying advanced forecasting techniques.

Contenu
Chapter 1. Final Energy Consumption Forecasting by Applying Artificial Intelligence Models.- Chapter 2. Game theoretic approaches in cloud and P2P networks: Issues and challenges.- Chapter 3. A proactive model for joint maintenance and logistics optimization in the frame of Industrial Internet of Things.- Chapter 4. Adoption of Digital Currencies: The Companies' Perspective.- Chapter 5. Unemployment Prediction in UK by Using a Feedforward Multilayer Perceptron.- Chapter 6. Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocols for BIG Data application.- Chapter 7. Vehicle Routing Problem for Urban Freight Transportation: A Review of the Recent Literature.- Chapter 8. Development of a framework for the assessment of soft skills in the ICT sector.- Chapter 9. Cloud Computing Adoption Decision in E-government.- Chapter 10. A unified framework for decision-making process on social media analytics. <p