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• The world, knowledge, and models
• Translating experience
• Modeling and mining : putting it together
• Framing business models
• Getting the right model
• Getting the model right
• Deploying the model
• Getting started
• What mining tools do
• Getting the initial model : basic practices of data mining
• Improving the model
• Deploying the mined model
• Methodology.

Business Modeling and Data Mining demonstrates how real world business problems can be formulated so that data mining can answer them. The concepts and techniques presented in this book are the essential building blocks in understanding what models are and how they can be used practically to reveal hidden assumptions and needs, determine problems, discover data, determine costs, and explore the whole domain of the problem. This book articulately explains how to understand both the strategic and tactical aspects of any business problem, identify where the key leverage points are and determine where quantitative techniques of analysis -- such as data mining -- can yield most benefit. It addresses techniques for discovering how to turn colloquial expression and vague descriptions of a business problem first into qualitative models and then into well-defined quantitative models (using data mining) that can then be used to find a solution. The book completes the process by illustrating how these findings from data mining can be turned into strategic or tactical implementations. Teaches how to discover, construct and refine models that are useful in business situations Teaches how to design, discover and develop the data necessary for mining Provides a practical approach to mining data for all business situations Provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use, fully interactive methodology for building models and mining data Provides pointers to supplemental online resources, including a downloadable version of the methodology and software tools.

For any Microsoft Office user familiar with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, or Outlook, this book provides tutorials on the tools and tricks that automate these programs for increased productivity. Each lesson includes instructions and a downloadable file on which to test the VBA macros and procedures provided. Tasks covered include how to run several mail merges at once, removing duplicates from data, and saving email attachments.

• H. Schmitz, S. Niemann: A Bicriteria Traveling Salesman Problem with Sequence Priorities
• P. Vansteenwegen et al.: Metaheuristics for Tourist Trip Planning
• A. Baykasoglu, T. Göçken: Solving Fuzzy Multi-Item Economic Order Quantity Problems via Fuzzy Ranking Functions and Particle Swarm Optimization
• L. Dimitriou, T. Tsekeris: Fixed and Variable Toll Pricing in Road Networks with Direct Search Meta-Heuristics
• M. Ortega-Mier, J. Delgado Hipólito, Á. García-Sánchez: Scatter Search for Locating a Treatment Plant and the Necessary Transfer Centers in a Reverse Network
• W. Souffriau et al.: Variable Neighbourhood Descent for Planning Crane Operations in Train Terminal
• J. Czogalla, A. Fink: Design and Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms for the No-Wait Flow-Shop Scheduling Problem
• G. di Tollo, D. Maringer: Metaheuristics for the Index Tracking Problem
• J. Rieck, J. Zimmermann: A Hybrid Algorithm for Vehicle Routing of Less-Than-Truckload Carriers.

Most developed economics show the tendency of an increasing importance of modern services such as tourism, logistical services, finance, and others. In many cases, complex optimization problems can be found in this context, and the successful operation of modern services often depends on the ability to solve the obtained optimization models. Metaheuristics on the other hand present an interesting problem-resolution paradigm that has attracted considerable interest in past years. The book combines a set of selected and peer-reviewed articles, presenting novel results of metaheuristics for modern services. In particular, applications in the area of transportation and logistics are considered, while other areas include production and financial services. Novel methodological approaches as well as improved results are obtained, resulting in a considerable contribution to the state-of-the-art of research in metaheuristics.

• Introduction Example: Bidding on eBay Auction Fundamentals Continuous Double Auctions Interdependent Markets Conclusion.
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Automated trading in electronic markets is one of the most common and consequential applications of autonomous software agents. Design of effective trading strategies requires thorough understanding of how market mechanisms operate, and appreciation of strategic issues that commonly manifest in trading scenarios. Drawing on research in auction theory and artificial intelligence, this book presents core principles of strategic reasoning that apply to market situations. The author illustrates trading strategy choices through examples of concrete market environments, such as eBay, as well as abstract market models defined by configurations of auctions and traders. Techniques for addressing these choices constitute essential building blocks for the design of trading strategies for rich market applications. The lecture assumes no prior background in game theory or auction theory, or artificial intelligence.
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• Introduction
• Technological Progress: Logistic Growth or Singularity
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Happiness
• Issues in Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence in Economics: ACE
• Economics of Artificial Intelligence
• State of the Art, Challenges for AGI.

The manuscript reviews some key ideas about artificial intelligence, and relates them to economics. These include its relation to robotics, and the concepts of synthetic emotions, consciousness, and life. The economic implications of the advent of artificial intelligence, such as its effect on prices and wages, appropriate patent policy, and the possibility of accelerating productivity, are discussed. The growing field of artificial economics and the use of artificial agents in experimental economics is considered.

• Biometrics
• Document image inspection
• Applications.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th and 6th International Workshops on Computational Forensics, IWCF 2012 and IWCF 2014, held in Tsukuba, Japan, in November 2010 and August 2014. The 16 revised full papers and 1 short paper were carefully selected from 34 submissions during a thorough review process. The papers are divided into three broad areas namely biometrics; document image inspection; and applications.

• Part I Fundamentals of Cybercrime.- Part II Computer System as Target.- Part III Computer System as Tool.- Part IV Content - Related Offenses.- Part V Privacy, Security and Crime Control.
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The purpose of law is to prevent the society from harm by declaring what conduct is criminal, and prescribing the punishment to be imposed for such conduct. The pervasiveness of the internet and its anonymous nature make cyberspace a lawless frontier where anarchy prevails. Historically, economic value has been assigned to visible and tangible assets. With the increasing appreciation that intangible data disseminated through an intangible medium can possess economic value, cybercrime is also being recognized as an economic asset. The Cybercrime, Digital Forensics and Jurisdiction disseminate knowledge for everyone involved with understanding and preventing cybercrime - business entities, private citizens, and government agencies. The book is firmly rooted in the law demonstrating that a viable strategy to confront cybercrime must be international in scope.
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• Bayesian Methods for Intelligent Task Assignment in Crowdsourcing Systems.- Designing Societies of Robots.- On the Origins of Imperfection and Apparent Non-Rationality.- Lasso Granger Causal Models: Some Strategies and their Efficiency for Gene Expression Regulatory Networks.- Cooperative Feature Selection in Personalized Medicine.- Imperfect Decision Making and Risk Taking are affected by Personality.
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This volume focuses on uncovering the fundamental forces underlying dynamic decision making among multiple interacting, imperfect and selfish decision makers. The chapters are written by leading experts from different disciplines, all considering the many sources of imperfection in decision making, and always with an eye to decreasing the myriad discrepancies between theory and real world human decision making. Topics addressed include uncertainty, deliberation cost and the complexity arising from the inherent large computational scale of decision making in these systems. In particular, analyses and experiments are presented which concern: * task allocation to maximize "the wisdom of the crowd"; * design of a society of "edutainment" robots who account for one anothers' emotional states; * recognizing and counteracting seemingly non-rational human decision making; * coping with extreme scale when learning causality in networks; * efficiently incorporating expert knowledge in personalized medicine; * the effects of personality on risky decision making. The volume is a valuable source for researchers, graduate students and practitioners in machine learning, stochastic control, robotics, and economics, among other fields.
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• Group Problem Structuring and Negotiation
• Effects of Small Group Discussion: Case Study of Community Disaster Risk Management in Japan
• Understanding PSM Interventions Through Sense-Making and the Mangle of Practice Lens
• Negotiation and Group Processes
• Social Consciousness in Post-conflict Reconstruction
• How to Order the Alternatives, Rules, and the Rules to Choose Rules: When the Endogenous Procedural Choice Regresses
• The Hidden Costs of the Door-in-the-Face Tactic in Negotiations
• Preference Analysis and Decision Support
• Understanding and Using the Group Decision Analysis Model
• Distributive Justice, Legitimizing Collective Choice Procedures, and the Production of Normative Equilibria in Social Groups: Towards a Theory of Social Order
• A Multiple Criteria Model for Comparison of Subjective-Objective Evaluations and Its Application
• Using Surrogate Weights for Handling Preference Strength in Multi-criteria Decisions
• Veto Values Within MAUT for Group Decision Making on the Basis of Dominance Measuring Methods with Fuzzy Weights
• Inaccuracy in Defining Preferences by the Electronic Negotiation System Users
• A Multi-criteria Group Decision-Making Approach for Facility Location Selection Using PROMETHEE Under a Fuzzy Environment
• An Interval-Valued Hesitant Fuzzy TOPSIS Method to Determine the Criteria Weights
• Multiple Attribute Group Decision Making Under Hesitant Fuzzy Environment
• Formal Models
• Using Ordinal Regression for Interactive Evolutionary Multiple Objective Optimization with Multiple Decision Makers
• Fiscal-Monetary Game Analyzed with Use of a Dynamic Macroeconomic Model
• Voting and Collective Decision-Making
• A Framework for Aiding the Choice of a Voting Procedure in a Business Decision Context
• Vote Swapping in Representative Democracy
• The Choice of Voting Rules Based on Preferences over Criteria
• Conflict Resolution in Energy and Environmental Management
• Controversy Over the International Upper Great Lakes Study Recommendations: Pathways Towards Cooperation
• Option Prioritization for Three-Level Preference in the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution
• Negotiation Support Systems and Studies
• The Role of Communication Support for Electronic Negotiations
• More Than Words: The Effect of Emoticons in Electronic Negotiations
• Online Collaboration and Competition
• A Longitudinal Case Study on Risk Factor in Trust Development of Facilitated Collaboration
• Intention to Repurchase Group Coupon Service: The Intertwined Effect of Service Quality of Vendor and Service Provider
• Defining Human-Machine Micro-Task Workflows for Constitution Making
• Creating Value Through Crowdsourcing: The Antecedent Conditions
• On Integrating an IS Success Model and Multicriteria Preference Analysis into a System for Cloud-Computing Investment Decisions
• Demand Management with Energy Generation and Storage in Collectives
• Market Mechanisms and Their Users
• Back-End Bidding for Front-End Negotiation: A Model
• Lot-Rolling
• Supply Chain Negotiation in a Two-Stage Multi-echelon System
• Procurement Auctions: Improving Efficient Winning Bids Through Multi-bilateral Negotiations.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2015, held in Warsaw, Poland, in June 2015. The GDN meetings aim to bring together researchers and practitioners from a wide spectrum of fields, including economics, management, computer science, engineering, and decision science. From a total of 119 submissions, 32 papers were accepted for publication in this volume. The papers are organized into topical sections on group problem structuring and negotiation, negotiation and group processes, preference analysis and decision support, formal models, voting and collective decision making, conflict resolution in energy and environmental management, negotiation support systems and studies, online collaboration and competition, and market mechanisms and their users.

• Smart City Concepts: Chances and Risks of Energy Efficient Urban Development
• Smart Cities Concept and Challenges: Bases for the Assessment of Smart City Projects Constructing Human Smart Cities
• An Open Platform for Children's Independent Mobility
• Architectures and Requirements for the Development of Smart Cities: A Literature Study
• People in Smart Buildings: Daily Practices in Automated Areas
• Introducing Flexibility into Data Centers for Smart Cities
• Automatic Validation for Crowd Simulation: Test Suite for a Pedestrian Simulator based on Different Scenarios
• A 2DOFvibrational Energy Harvester Exploiting Velocity Amplification: Modeling and Testing
• Voltage Control in Low Voltage Grids with Distributed Energy Resources: A Droop-based Approach
• A Sensitivity based Approach for Efficient PMU Deployment on Smart Grid
• Using Flexibility Information for Planning the Energy Demand of Households
• Laser Scanner and Camera Fusion for Automatic Obstacle Classification in ADAS Application
• Vehicle Routing to Minimizing Hybrid Fleet Fuel Consumption
• Service-Oriented Architecture for Cloud Application Development
• An Integrated Architecture for Simulation and Modeling of Small- and Medium-sized Transportation and Communication Networks
• Privacy Endangerment from Protocol Data Sets in VANETs and Countermeasures.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, SMARTGREENS 2015, and the 1st International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems, VEHITS 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in May 2015. The 15 full papers of SMARTGREENS 2015 presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. VEHITS 2015 received 27 paper submissions from which 3 papers were selected and published in this book. The papers reflect topics such as smart cities, energy-aware systems and technologies, sustainable computing and communications, sustainable transportation and smart mobility.

• Design and Usability.- Assistive and Sentient Environments.- Cognitive Technology.- Activity Recognition.- Context and Situation Awareness.- Health IT.
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2014, held in Denver, CO, USA in June 2014. The 21 revised full papers presented together with three keynote papers and 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Design and Usability, assistive and sentient environments, cognitive technology, activity recognition, context and situation awareness, Health IT and short contributions.
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• Schema Evolution for Databases and Data Warehouses.- Publishing OLAP Cubes on the Semantic Web.- Design Issues in Social Business Intelligence Projects.- Context-Aware Business Intelligence.- Key Performance Indicators in Data Warehouses.- Author Index.
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This book constitutes the tutorial lectures of the 5th European Business Intelligence Summer School, eBISS 2015, held in Barcelona, Spain, in July 2015. The tutorials presented here in an extended and refined format were given by renowned experts and cover topics including schema evolution for databases and data warehouses, publishing OLAP cubes on the Semantic Web, design issues in social business intelligence projects, context-aware business intelligence, and key performance indicators in data warehouses.
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• Financial awareness.- Financial education.- Financial forecasting.- Crowdsourcing.- Recommendation and engagement tools.- Development of online platforms.- Air quality monitoring by online platforms.- Measuring and publishing outdoor air pollution levels by online platforms.- Leveraging the power of online social networks, mobile and open hardware technologies, and engagement strategies.
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This book contains the papers presented at the two CAPS (Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation) workshops, namely the First International Workshop on the Internet for Financial Collective Awareness and Intelligence, IFIN 2016, and the First International Workshop on Internet and Social Media for Environmental Monitoring, ISEM 2016, held in Florence, Italy in September 2016. The two workshops were collocated with the third International Conference on Internet Science, INSCI 2016. The 8 papers presented have been carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. The papers of the two workshops although targeting different goals aim at developing platforms promoting awareness on different but critical sustainability issues.
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• Smart homes, smart urban spaces and new assistive living space concepts in the smart city
• E-Health for future smart cities
• Context awareness and autonomous computing
• Home networks and residential gateways
• Middleware support for smart homes and health telematic services
• E-Health and chronic disease management
• E-Health technology assessment and impact analysis
• Tele-assistance and Tele-rehabilitation
• Modeling of physical and conceptual Information in intelligent environments
• Medical big data collection, processing and analysis
• Human machine interfaces
• Wearable sensors and continuous health monitoring
• Social, privacy and security issues
• Mobile Health Services
• Smart Rehabilitation Technologies.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2016, held in Wuhan, China, in May 2016. The 39 regular papers, 5 short papers and 1 poster paper included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: smart homes, smart urban spaces and new assistive living space concepts in the smart city; e-health for future smart cities; context awareness and autonomous computing; home networks and residential gateways; middleware support for smart homes and health telematic services; e-health and chronic disease management; e-health technology assessment and impact analysis; tele-assistance and tele-rehabilitation; modeling of physical and conceptual information in intelligent environments; medical big data collection, processing and analysis; human machine interfaces; wearable sensors and continuous health monitoring; social, privacy and security issues; mobile health services; and smart rehabilitation technologies.

• Smart Products.- Assessment Approaches.- PLM Maturity.- Building Information Modeling (BIM).- Languages and Ontologies.- Product Service Systems.- Future Factory.- Knowledge Creation and Management.- Simulation and Virtual Environments.- Sustainability and Systems Improvement.- Configuration and Engineering Change.- Education studies.- Cyberphysical and Smart Systems.- Design and Integration issues.- LM Processes and Applications.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2015, held in Doha, Qatar, in October 2015. The 79 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 130 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: smart products, assessment approaches, PLM maturity, building information modeling (BIM), languages and ontologies, product service systems, future factory, knowledge creation and management, simulation and virtual environments, sustainability and systems improvement, configuration and engineering change, education studies, cyber-physical and smart systems, design and integration issues, and PLM processes and applications.
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• Psychologically Plausible Models in Agent-Based Simulations of Sustainable Behavior.- Modelling Everyday Pro-Environmental Norm Transmission and Diffusion in Workplace Networks.- Empirically-Derived Behavioral Rules in Agent-Based Models Using Decision Trees Learned From Questionnaire Data.- The Implementation of the Theory of Planned Behavior in an Agent-Based Model for Waste Recycling: A Review and a Proposal.- Social Simulations Through an Agent-Based Platform, Location Data and 3D Models.- An Intersection-Centric Auction-Based Traffic Signal Control Framework.- Agentdrive: Agent-Based Simulator for Intelligent Cars and its Application for Development of a Lane-Changing Assistant.- City Parking Allocations as a Bundle of Society-Aware Deals.- Sustainable Farming Behaviours: an Agent Based Modelling and LCA Perspective.- Agent-Based Simulation of Electricity Markets: Risk Management and Contracts for Difference.- Energy Management in the Smart Grids via Intelligent Storage Systems.
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Using the O.D.D. (Overview, Design concepts, Detail) protocol, this title explores the role of agent-based modeling in predicting the feasibility of various approaches to sustainability. The chapters incorporated in this volume consist of real case studies to illustrate the utility of agent-based modeling and complexity theory in discovering a path to more efficient and sustainable lifestyles. The topics covered within include: households' attitudes toward recycling, designing decision trees for representing sustainable behaviors, negotiation-based parking allocation, auction-based traffic signal control, and others. This selection of papers will be of interest to social scientists who wish to learn more about agent-based modeling as well as experts in the field of agent-based modeling.
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• Design and Usability.- Biomedical and Health Informatics.- Activity and Recognition.- Independent Living Technology.- Smart Home Technology.
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2017, held in Paris, France, in August 2017. The 18 regular papers, 5 short papers together with 2 invited talks included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The conference features a dynamic program incorporating a range of design, development, deployment and evaluation of Smart Urban Environments, Assistive Technologies, Chronic Disease Management, Coaching and Health Telematics systems.
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• Production and Economic Relations on the Internet: Another Level of Development of Economic Science.- Internet Economy: Existence from the Point of View of Micro-Economic Aspect.- Perspectives of Internet Economy Creation.- Modern Foundations of Internet Economy.
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This unique book adopts a problem approach to study the Internet economy, which consists in assessing its contradiction to classic economy, analyzing it, and describing how the Internet economy is developing in modern Russia. The authors study its sense and basic principles, identify the factors that influence its functioning and development, analyze the crisis of the Internet economy, and conduct a comparative analysis of the Internet economy and classic economy. The book is primarily intended for postgraduates, educators and researchers who study the foundations of the modern macro-economy. Based on the conclusions and results presented here, they will be able to create their own scientific studies. Further, problem analysis of the Internet economy and classic economy makes it possible to identify the peculiarities and prospects of development, and to form recommendations for the highly effective management of modern economic systems.
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• Intro; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; Motivation; Problem Statement; Challenges and Overview of the State-of-the-Art; Challenges for Efficient SPARQL Query Processing; Challenges for Effective SPARQL Query Processing; Hypotheses and Research Questions; Contributions; Outline; Foundations of Linked Data Management; Linked Data; The Resource Description Framework (RDF); Querying RDF Data: The SPARQL Query Language; Querying RDF Data on the Web; URI Dereferencing and Link Traversal; SPARQL Endpoints; Linked Data Fragments; Foundations of Query Processing; Query Optimization

• Adaptive Query ProcessingAdaptive Query Processing over Linked Data; Introduction; Research Questions; Contributions; Structure of the Chapter; Motivating Example; Related Work; Adaptive Link Traversal Approaches; Adaptive Query Processing Against SPARQL Endpoints; Query Processing Approaches Against TPF Servers; The nLDE Approach; nLDE Query Optimizer; Estimation of Query Plan Cardinalities; Placing Physical Operators; Building Query Tree Plans; nLDE Optimizer: Algorithm Description; Complexity of the nLDE Query Optimizer; nLDE Adaptive Routing Query Engine; Adaptive Operators; Eddies

• Network of Linked Data Eddies (nLDE)Termination of nLDE; Correctness of nLDE; Routing Policies; Routing Policy from Eddies to Adaptive Operators; Routing Policy from Adaptive Operators to Eddies; Experimental Study; Experimental Settings; Efficiency of the nLDE Optimizer; Effectiveness of the nLDE Optimizer; Impact of the nLDE Routing-based Adaptivity on Execution Time in Perfect Networks; Effectiveness of the nLDE Routing-based Adaptivity Under the Presence of Network Delays; Summary and Future Work; Foundations of Crowdsourcing; Overview; Types of Crowdsourcing; Microtasks; Contests

• Crowdsourcing WorkflowsHybrid Crowdsourcing Workflows; Human-based Workflow: Find-Fix-Verify; Crowdsourcing Query Answer Completeness over Linked Data; Introduction; Research Questions; Contributions; Structure of the Chapter; Motivating Example; Related Work; Hybrid Query Processing for Relational Data; Crowd-based Linked Data Management Applications; Web Data Quality Assessment; The HARE Approach; Problem Definition; Proposed Solution; RDF Completeness Model; Representation of the Crowd Knowledge; Crowd Contradiction; Crowd Unknownness; HARE Microtask Manager; User Interface Generator

• Microtask ExecutorHARE Query Optimizer; Complexity of the HARE Query Optimizer; HARE Query Engine; A SPARQL Fuzzy Set Semantics; HARE BGP Executor; Complexity of HARE Query Evaluation; Experimental Study; Experimental Settings; HARE Crowdsourcing Capabilities; Size of Query Answer; Quality of Crowd Answers; Crowd Response Time; Summary and Future Work; Crowdsourcing Linked Data Quality Issues; Introduction; Research Questions; Contributions; Structure of the Chapter; Preliminaries: Linked Data Quality Issues; Related Work; Crowdsourcing in Linked Data Management; Web Data Quality Assessment

• Introduction
• The challenges of automated item picking: the last mile of logistics for e-commerce
• Robotic Sensing for Item Picking
• Gripper Design and Grasping Strategies
• Machine Learning for Item Identification and Pose Estimation
• Machine Learning for Motion Planning
• Efficient Task Planning Strategies.

This book is a compilation of advanced research and applications on robotic item picking and warehouse automation for e-commerce applications. The works in this book are based on results that came out of the Amazon Robotics Challenge from 2015-2017, which focused on fully automated item picking in warehouse setting, a topic that has been assumed too complicated to solve or has been reduced to a more tractable form of bin picking or single-item table top picking. The books contributions reveal some of the top solutions presented from the 50 participant teams. Each solution works to address the time-constraint, accuracy, complexity, and other difficulties that come with warehouse item picking. The book covers topics such as grasping and gripper design, vision and other forms of sensing, actuation and robot design, motion planning, optimization, machine learning and artificial intelligence, software engineering, and system integration, among others. Through this book, the authors describe how robot systems are built from the ground up to do a specific task, in this case, item picking in a warehouse setting. The compiled works come from the best robotics research institutions and companies globally. Presents an inside look at the various solutions for automated warehouse item picking based on the Amazon Robotics Challenge (ARC) Contains details of the challenges and solutions involved in automating item picking Provides details and insights on the solutions of the winning teams Includes chapters written by scientists and engineers at the forefront of robotics research.