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 …

With more and more data generated, it has become a big challenge for traditional
architectures and infrastructures to process large amounts of data within an acceptable time …

Big data analytics has recently emerged as an important research area due to the popularity
of the Internet and the advent of the Web 2.0 technologies. Moreover, the proliferation and …

The healthcare part has seen an incredible advancement following the improvement of new
computer innovations, and that pushed this region to deliver increasingly restorative …

This paper provides a survey of the state-of-the-art and future directions of one of the most
important emerging technologies within business analytics (BA), namely prescriptive …

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 …

Abstract The World Health Organization expects that between 2015 and 2050 the proportion
of the global population over 60 years of age will almost double from 12% to 22%. A …

To maximize the value and material recovery from waste products, smart reverse logistics
aims at managing the complex flows of physical items, cash, data, and information. The …

Increasing accessibility and availability of heterogeneous data sources, growing data
science competencies across the public health workforce, and a preponderance of evidence …