Recent Advances in Intelligent Technologies and Information Systems

The amount of data used in the business world has been growing at a rapid and exponential rate. These large volumes of data have led not only to the rise of big data analytics, but to the need for improvements and advancements in the management of it. Recent Advances in Intelligent Technologies and Information Systems brings together current practices and innovations in the management and processing of diverse big data sets through technological integration. Focusing on concepts such as semantic technologies, open source tools, and soft computing, this book is an integral reference source for professionals, researchers, and practitioners interested in the application of technological advancements.

Vijayan Sugumaran is Professor of Management Information Systems in the department of Decision and Information Sciences at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA. He is also WCU Professor of Global Service Management at Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea. He received his Ph.D in Information Technology from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. His research interests are in the areas of Service Science, Ontologies and Semantic Web, Intelligent Agent and Multi-Agent Systems, Component Based Software Development, and Knowledge-Based Systems. He has published more than 150 articles in journals, conferences, and books. His most recent publications have appeared in Information systems Research, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, IEEE Transactions on Education, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Communications of the ACM, Healthcare Management Science, and Data and Knowledge Engineering. He has edited twelve books and two journal special issues. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies and also serves on the editorial board of seven other journals. He was the program co-chair for the International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2008 and NLDB 2013). In addition, he has served as the chair of the Intelligent Agent and Multi-Agent Systems mini-track for Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 1999 - 2014) and Intelligent Information Systems track for the Information Resources Management Association International Conference (IRMA 2001, 2002, 2005 - 2007). He served as Chair of the E-Commerce track for Decision Science Institutes Annual Conference, 2004.