Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 115 Issue 9

Big Data promises value: is hardware technology taken onboard?

Wasim Ahmad Bhat, S.M.K. Quadri

The purpose of this paper is to explore the challenges posed by Big Data to current trends in computation, networking and storage technology at various stages of Big Data…

Safety or no safety in numbers? Governments, big data and public policy formulation

Joseph Amankwah-Amoah

Although big data have emerged at the cornerstone of business and management research, past studies have failed to offer explanations and classifications of different levels of…

Using Twitter data to predict the performance of Bollywood movies

Dipak Damodar Gaikar, Bijith Marakarkandy, Chandan Dasgupta

– The purpose of this paper is to address the shortcomings of limited research in forecasting the power of social media in India.

Gaining competitive intelligence from social media data: Evidence from two largest retail chains in the world

Wu He, Jiancheng Shen, Xin Tian, Yaohang Li, Vasudeva Akula, Gongjun Yan, Ran Tao

Social media analytics uses data mining platforms, tools and analytics techniques to collect, monitor and analyze massive amounts of social media data to extract useful patterns…

Modeling and quantifying uncertainty in the product design phase for effects of user preference changes

Hamid Afshari, Qingjin Peng

– The purpose of this paper is to quantify external and internal uncertainties in product design process. The research addresses the measure of product future changes.

On the model design of integrated intelligent big data analytics systems

Kun Chen, Xin Li, Huaiqing Wang

Although big data analytics has reaped great business rewards, big data system design and integration still face challenges resulting from the demanding environment, including…

Improving the predictability of business failure of supply chain finance clients by using external big dataset

Xiande Zhao, KwanHo Yeung, Qiuping Huang, Xiao Song

The purpose of this paper is to help the financial institutions improve the predictability of business failure of supply chain finance (SCF) clients with the use of external big…

An empirical study of wearable technology acceptance in healthcare

Yiwen Gao, He Li, Yan Luo

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors associated with consumer’s intention to adopt wearable technology in healthcare, and to examine the moderating effects of…

Social information landscapes: Automated mapping of large multimodal, longitudinal social networks

Eugene Ch'ng

The purpose of this paper is to present a Big Data solution as a methodological approach to the automated collection, cleaning, collation, and mapping of multimodal, longitudinal…

Understanding community citizenship behavior in social networking sites: An extension of the social identification theory

Li-Chun Hsu, Wen-Hai Chih, Dah-Kwei Liou

Social media platforms established social relationship between the consumer and the brand community. The purpose of this paper is to propose a model to understand how…

Big data research for the knowledge economy: past, present, and future

Xiaojun Wang, Leroy White, Xu Chen