This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 4th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2016, held in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, in September 2016. The 12 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers are organized in three sessions: eIDAS and data protection regulation; IoT and public clouds; and privacy policies and privacy risk presentation.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society, I3E 2016, held in Swansea, UK, in September 2016 The 47 full and 17 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: social media strategy and digital business; digital marketing and customer relationship management; adoption and diffusion; information sharing on social media; impression, trust, and risk management; data acquisition, management and analytics; e-government and civic engagement; e-society and online communities.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society, I3E 2017, held in Delhi, India, in November 2017. The 45 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Adoption of Smart Services; Assessment of ICT Enabled Smart Initiatives; Analytics for Smart Governance; Social Media and Web 3.0 for Smartness; and Smart Solutions for the Future.

Use this practical, hands-on guide to get started with ProcessMaker. The book provides clear steps for you to walk through and set up ProcessMaker on your own system and make processes run faster and smarter. You will model and build a complete business process for requesting, approving, and reporting expenses. In the course of building the process, you will understand: The Workflow Designer for modeling business processes using BPMN 2.0 The Dynaform Designer for creating responsive HTML forms Input and Output documents for capturing supporting documents for business processes and generating standardized documents from the data captured in a process Triggers for implementing custom business logic and extending ProcessMaker functionality What You'll Learn Send email notifications and add comments to cases Build complex routing rules Manage users and their permissions Deploy ProcessMaker to a cloud server Configure and use the ProcessMaker mobile app Who This Book Is For Business analysts, programmers, and professionals in all industries (e.g., higher education, finance and insurance, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and telecommunications)

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 15th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2016, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS, in Dublin, Ireland, in December 2016. WeB 2016 provided a forum for scholars to exchange ideas and share results from their research. Original articles addressing a broad coverage of technical, managerial, economic, and strategic issues related to consumers, businesses, industries, and governments were presented at the workshop, employing various IS research methods such as case study, survey, analytical modeling, experiments, computational models, and design science. The 15 full and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. They deal with the "Internetworked World" focusing on digitalization, consumerization, global platforms, and transformative innovations in industry.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Radio Frequency Identification and IoT Security, RFIDSec 2016, held in Hong Kong, China, in November/December 2016. The 14 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions and are organized in topical sections on protocols; side channel and hardware; cards and tokens; proximity; and communication.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2017, held in malaga, Spain, in November 2017. The 33 full papers presented together with 20 short papers and 4 keynotes in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 179 submissions. The selected papers cover a wide variety of important topics in the area of service-oriented computing, including foundational issues on service discovery and service-systems design, business process modelling and management, economics of service-systems engineering, as well as services on the cloud, social networks, the Internet of Things (IoT), and data analytics. The chapter "Risk-based Proactive Process Adaptation" is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on HCI in Business, Government and Organizations, HCIBGO 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, which took place in Toronto, Canada, in July 2016. HCII 2016 received a total of 4354 submissions, of which 1287 papers were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process. The 53 papers presented in this volume are organized in topical sections named: social media for business; electronic, mobile and ubiquitous commerce; business analytics and visualization; branding, marketing and consumer behavior; and digital innovation.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2016, held in Rome, Italy, April 23-25, 2016, organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC). The purpose of the WEBIST series of conferences is to bring together researches, engineers and practitioners interested in technological advances and business applications of web-based information systems. The 9 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected originally 123 paper submissions. They contribute to the understanding of relevant trends of current research on Web Information Systems and Technologies, comprising recommender systems, sentiment analysis, ranking, and Web applications and Web architecture.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2016, held in Athens. Greece, in September 2016. The 11 revised full papers and 11 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. This volume has been structured following the seven sessions that comprised the conference program (three of which are work-in-progress sessions): Session 1: Business Models Session 2: Work in Progress on Quality of Services and Service Level Agreements Session 3: Work in Progress on Cloud Economics Session 4: Energy Consumption Session 5: Resource Allocation Session 6: Work in Progress on Resource Allocation Session 7: Cloud Applications

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST 2017, held in May/June 2017 in Karlsruhe, Germany. The 25 full and 11 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 full and 19 short papers. The contributions are organized in topical sections named: DSR in business process management; DSR in human computer interaction; DSR in data science and business analytics; DSR in service science; methodological contributions; domain-specific DSR applications; emerging themes and new ideas; and products and prototypes.

SPSS. Powerful, user-friendly, and useful, particularly in psychology, sociology, psychiatry, and other social sciences. But to fully exploit its capabilities and effectively execute its wide range of procedures, users need detailed, to-the-point guidance that other resources lack.

A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using SPSS clearly and concisely describes how to conduct univariate and multivariate statistical analyses using the latest release of SPSS, version 11. Each chapter addresses a different type of analytical procedure and applies it to real data sets, primarily, though not exclusively, from the social and behavioral sciences. The authors briefly review the theoretical background of many of the techniques, but they set that material apart in boxes so that the presentation of the various analyses proceeds without interruption.

Each chapter ends with exercises, some related to the data sets introduced in that chapter, others introducing additional data sets. These data sets and answers to most of the exercises are available for download at www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/iop/departments/BioComp/SPSSBook.shtml.

If you're a relative newcomer to performing statistical analyses, a new user of SPSS, or a veteran on both fronts, A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using SPSS will be a welcome addition to your library. Researchers and students alike will find this a convenient, self-contained route to using SPSS for effective data analysis.

This 2-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on HCI in Business, Government and Organizations, HCIBGO 2017, held as part of the 19 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , HCII 2017, which took place in Vancouver, Canada, in July 2017. HCII 2017 received a total of 4340 submissions, of which 1228 papers were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process. The 31 papers presented in this volume, focusing on interacting with information systems, are organized in topical sections named: human-centered design in information systems; information systems in healthcare, learning, cultural heritage and government; novel interaction devices and techniques;

This 2-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on HCI in Business, Government and Organizations, HCIBGO 2017, held as part of the 19 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , HCII 2017, which took place in Vancouver, Canada, in July 2017. HCII 2017 received a total of 4340 submissions, of which 1228 papers were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process. The 35 papers presented in this volume, focusing on supporting business, are organized in topical sections named: e-commerce and consumer behavior; social media for business; analytics, visualization and decision support.

The papers presented in this volume advance the state-of-the-art research on digital marketing and social media, mobile computing and responsive web design, semantic technologies and recommender systems, augmented and virtual reality, electronic distribution and online travel reviews, MOOC and eLearning, eGovernment and sharing economy. This book covers the most significant areas contributed by prominent scholars from around the world and is suitable for both academics and practitioners who are interested in the latest developments in eTourism.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2016, held in Christ church, Barbados, in February 2016. The 27 revised full papers and 9 short papers were carefully selected and reviewed from 137 full papers submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topical sections: fraud and deception; payments, auctions, and e-voting; multiparty computation; mobile malware; social interaction and policy; cryptanalysis; surveillance and anonymity; Web security and data privacy; Bitcoin mining; cryptographic protocols; payment use and abuse.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Digital Economy, ICDEc 2017, held in Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, in May 2017. The 18 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The theme of ICDEc 2017 was "Digital Economy: Emerging Technologies and Business Innovation". The conference offered a number of sessions discussing innovative research focusing on emerging technologies which support the digital transformation of business and the economy: digital marketing, digital economy and e-learning, data science and security, and uncertainty in Web data.

This book presents select contributions of the International Scientific-Practical Conference 2021 (ISCP 2021) organized by East European University (Georgia) and Fresenius University of Applied Sciences (Germany). It discusses the challenges of digital transformation during and after the pandemic and introduces advanced research and solutions from both academic and professional's aspects. The topics covered include digitalization in social and corporate responsibility, e-commerce and digital entrepreneurship, and digitalization in education. The book is an interesting read for researchers and professionals interested in digital management.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the nine workshops co-located with the 15th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2017.The 41 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the following workshops: Workshop on Agent based Applications for Air Transport and Application of Agents to Passenger Transport; Workshop on Agent-based Artificial Markets Computational Economics; Workshop on Agents and Multi-agent Systems for AAL and e-HEALTH; Workshop on Agent-Based Solutions for Manufacturing and Supply Chain; Workshop on MAS for Complex Networks and Social Computation; Workshop on Decision Making in Dynamic Information Environments; Workshop on Multi-agent based Applications for Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy Systems; Workshop on Multiagent System based Learning Environments; Workshop on Smart Cities and Intelligent Agents.

This book presents a collection of state-of-the-art research findings on the digital transformation of financial services. Digitalization has fundamentally changed financial services and has a tendency to reshape the landscape of the financial industry in an unprecedented manner. Over the last ten years, the development of new financial technologies has contributed to the creation of new business and organizational models, along with new approaches to service delivery. By encompassing significant conceptual contributions, innovations in methods and techniques, and by delineating the main applications of digital transformation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the volume extends current knowledge on digital transformation in the financial industry.  The book is divided into two parts. The first part provides a social-science perspective on digital transformation in the financial industry. The second part provides the most recent evidence on how financial technologies are transforming financial services on the markets, and how the adoption of modern information technologies fosters setting up new financial services. Further, this part outlines new approaches to digital transformation in the financial industry. This book will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers of finance, monetary economics, and business, as well as practitioners interested in a better understanding of the digital transformation of financial services, new financial technologies, and innovations in finance. 

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Multidisciplinary Social Networks Conference, MISNC 2015, held in Matsuyama, Japan, in September 2015. The 49 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 125 submissions. The papers deal with the following topics: multidisciplinary research on social networks; ethical issues related to SNS; information technology and social networks mining.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 17th and 18th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, AMEC TADA 2015 and 2016, which took place in Istanbul, Turkey, in May 2015, and in New York City, USA, in July 2016. The 10 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. Both workshops aim to present a cross-section of the state of the art in automated electronic markets and encourage theoretical and empirical work that deals with both the individual agent level as well as the system level. Given the breadth of research topics in this field, the range of topics addressed in these papers is correspondingly broad. They range from papers that study theoretical issues, related to the design of interaction protocols and marketplaces, to the design and analysis of automated trading strategies used by individual agents - which are often developed as part of an entry to one of the tracks of the Trading Agents Competition.

This book constitutes revised proceedings of the 17th International Conference on E-Commerce and Web Technologies, EC-Web 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in September 2016, in conjunction with DEXA. The 13 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: recommender systems; data management and data analysis; and business processes, Web services and cloud computing.

A practical guide for developers, development teams, and managers to successfully implement remote pair programming techniques and styles that better fit their organization's environment Key Features Implement remote pair programming best practices in your organization to increase productivity in software development teams Overcome the challenges in communication while working with distributed teams across the globe Explore remote pair programming tools and learn smart ways to use them efficiently Book DescriptionRemote pair programming takes pair programming practices to the next level by allowing you and your team members to work effectively in distributed teams. This helps ensure that you continuously improve code quality, share equal ownership of the code, facilitate knowledge sharing, and reduce bugs in your code. If you want to adopt remote pair programming within your development team, this book is for you. Practical Remote Pair Programming takes you through various techniques and best practices for working with the wide variety of tools available for remote pair programming. You'll understand the significance of pair programming and how it can help improve communication within your team. As you advance, you'll get to grips with different remote pair programming strategies and find out how to choose the most suitable style for your team and organization. The book will take you through the process of setting up video and audio tools, screen sharing tools, and the integrated development environment (IDE) for your remote pair programming setup. You'll also be able to enhance your remote pair programming experience with source control and remote access tools. By the end of this book, you'll have the confidence to drive the change of embracing remote pair programming in your organization and guide your peers to improve productivity while working remotely. What you will learn Develop a structured organizational approach to implementing pair programming and using it effectively Understand how pair programming fosters better communication inside and outside the team Organize remote pair programming and choose the right style for your organization Set up screen sharing, IDE, source control rules, audio, and video for your remote pair programming setup Use various pair programming techniques and styles in the context of a remote environment Enhance your remote pair programming experience with source control and remote access tools Who this book is forThis book is for any developer who wants to understand the different practical aspects involved in remote pair programming and adopt them in their existing development teams. If you're a team leader or technical manager, this book will serve as a manual for implementing remote pair programming covering the best resources for you to manage communication and collaboration using pair programming with your team members working remotely in distributed teams.