From presentations to a July 2015 conference on operations and supply chain management at the University of Nottingham-Ningbo China, 12 papers that discuss big data were selected for publication here. They cover insights from the academia and practitioners, big data on operations and supply chains, big data and emerging technology, and social media data research. Among specific topics are big data analytics: service and manufacturing perspectives, big data analytics for predictive maintenance strategies, the data-driven inventory management in the healthcare supply chain, developing an integration framework for crowdsourcing and Internet of Things with applications for disaster response, and exploring the hidden pattern from tweets: the investigation into the Volkswagen emissions scandal.
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Like other titles in the series, each chapter begins with an abstract that summarizes the impetus and methods of the research to come. Chapters organize the material into introduction, conclusion, future research directions, and other sections, and may utilize bullet points, headers, subheaders, case studies, illustrations, and data tables. References are listed at the end of each chapter and are compiled again at the end of the book. Brief contributor biographies and an index round out the work. Educators, students, managers, and professionals throughout a number of industries would be interested in this volume.
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