Big Data Analytics offers vast prospects in today’s business transformation. Whilst big data have remarkably captured the attentions of both practitioners and researchers especially in the financial services and marketing sectors, there is a myriad of premises that big data analytics can play even more crucial roles in Supply Chain Management (SCM). This paper therefore intends to explore these...

INTRODUCTION In recent years “big data” has become something of a buzzword in business, computer science, information studies, information systems, statistics, and many other fields. As technology continues to advance, we constantly generate an ever-increasing amount of data. This growth does not differentiate between individuals and businesses, private or public sectors, institutions of learni...

work? at defining big data, varying based on context, domain, and perspective. From the infrastructure’s perspective, big data has been defined as data with high volume, velocity, and variety (3V), and unpredictability. In this context, it has also been defined as data with some aspect that’s so large that current, typical methods can’t be used to process it.1,2 From the analytics’ perspective,...

The 2012 Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Challenge posed two challenge problems for participants to solve using a combination of visual analytics software and their own analytic reasoning abilities. Challenge 1 (C1) involved visualizing the network health of the fictitious Bank of Money to provide situation awareness and identify emerging trends that could signify network issues....

The business world is undergoing a revolution driven by the use of data and analytics to guide decision-making. While many forces are at work, a major reason for the business analytics revolution is the rapid proliferation of the amount of data available to be analysed. Recent days, big data is beginning to have a major impact on air travel with more data being created both through the plane se...

Big Data has become a core topic in different industries and research disciplines as well as for society as a whole. This is because the ability to generate, collect, distribute, process and analyze unprecedented amounts of diverse data has almost universal utility and helps to fundamentally change the way industries operate, how research can be done and how people live and use modern technolog...

The focus of this study is application of intelligent agent in negotiation between buyer and seller in B2C Commerce using big data analytics. The developed model is used to conduct negotiations on behalf of prospective buyers and sellers using analytics to improve negotiations to meet the practical requirements. The objective of this study is to explore the opportunities of using big data and b...