Analytics has become a key element of the business decision process over the last decade. In today’s competitive business world, organizations have found out that their data and how they use it can make them much more competitive. According to many research institutions (e.g., Gartner and McKinsey), the worldwide market for business analytics solutions in practice, research, and education is gr...

attention from entrepreneurs, executives, investors, and industry observers. In commenting about the impact of Internet technology and E-commerce on the world’s economy, former Vice President Al Gore stated: We are on the verge of a revolution that is as profound as the change in the economy that came with the industrial revolution. Soon electronic networks will allow people to transcend the ba...

Performance optimization remains one of the key issues in parallel computing. Many parallel applications do not benefit from the continually increasing peak performance of todays massively parallel computers, mainly because they have not been designed to operate efficiently on the 1000s of processors of todays top of the range systems. Conventional performance analysis is typically restricted t...

The competitive environment around most businesses and companies is changing with accelerating speed. For example, competition is becoming world-wide, new products are developed faster, new producing technologies are emerging, and new delivery channels are available. Organizations are in the midst of whole new challenges and are seeking for better competitive position and productivity. There is...

In todays era huge volume of information exists everywhere. Therefore, it is very crucial to evaluate that and extract useful, often summarized, out so may be used for relevant purposes. This extraction can achieved through a technique artificial intelligence, namely, machine learning. Indeed automatic text summarization has emerged as an important application learning in processing. this paper...

The paper highlights the current status of the Garment Industry and the threat it is facing in the emerging nonquota era and proposes an effective e-transformation strategy for the industry to gain competitive advantage in the global market. The E-transformation roadmap developed by the University of Western Sydney, Australia, is applied to the Garment Industry to deal with it’s requirement to ...

modern business organizations have appreciated the significance of having competitive advantage through the delivery of continuous improvement towards the customers, and being knowledge-oriented. indisputably, knowledge management (km) plays a key role in the success of customer relationship management (crm). in this regard, customer knowledge management (ckm) is a newly developed concept that ...