Several areas, such as science, economics, finance, business intelligence, health, and others are exploring big data as a way to produce new information, make better decisions, and move forward their related technologies and systems. Specifically in health, big data represents a challenging problem due to the poor quality of data in some circumstances and the need to retrieve, aggregate, and pr...

The data warehousing is becoming increasingly important in terms of strategic decision making through their capacity to integrate heterogeneous data from multiple information sources in a common storage space, for querying and analysis. So it can evolve into a multi-tier structure where parts of the organization take information from the main data warehouse into their own systems. These may inc...

Hong Kong’s post-war catching up with economically advanced nations is well documented. Starting as a piece of ‘barren rock’, the island economy has emerged as the ‘Mart of East Asia’. While there are numerous explanations for the success from neoclassical development economists, few studies have focused on the technological strategies and paths of Hong Kong’s manufacturing firms, the chief eco...

T paper examines the inventories of publicly traded U.S. retail and wholesale companies between 1981 and 2004. First, we document that inventory holdings have been reduced. The median of wholesale inventory holding periods was reduced from 73 days to 49 days. Retail inventory did not start to decline until about 1995. Second, we document that firms with abnormally high inventories have abnormal...

This paper presents a mercantile framework for the decentralised sharing of navigation expertise amongst a fleet of robots which perform regular missions into a common but variable environment. We build on our earlier work [1] and allow individual agents to intermittently initiate trades based on a real-time assessment of the nature of their missions or demand for localisation capability, and t...

1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical Faculty of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Turkey 2Department of Cardiology, Medical Faculty of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Turkey 3Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Faculty of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Turkey 4Department of Internal Medicine, Çanakkale State Hospital, Çanakka...

“In business, there is big and there is Wal-Mart.” --BusinessWeek, October 6, 2003 So begins a recent report about the wide-ranging influence of Wal-Mart. To get a sense of just how big Wal-Mart is, consider the following: • Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is the world’s largest retailer, with $285.2 billion in sales in the fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 2005 (Wal-Mart, 2006). • The company employs 1.2 mill...

Most of the information collected in different fields by Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC) is classified as unstructured due to its high volume and heterogeneity. This situation, linked to the recent requirement of integrating it to the medical information, makes it necessary to implant specific architectures to collect and organize it before it can be analysed. The purp...