IT and Business Intelligence

This book is a collection of selected papers presented during the conference on 'IT & Business Intelligence (ITBI-08)', organized by the Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Nagpur. The main emphasis of the book is on the current research trends and application of various techniques in different areas of technology and management. The book includes latest trends in: Business Management Systems (e-learning, e-commerce, e-business, e-finance, risk management, agent-based computational economics, artificial market, derivatives pricing, portfolio management and asset allocation, stock market, forex market analysis, dynamics and simulation, financial modeling, emotional intelligence, intelligent management, etc.); Data Mining and Decision Support Systems (discovering patterns in continuous and discrete data, decision support systems, uncertain management for data mining, web mining, clustering algorithms and applications, intelligent data mining systems, XML-mining, text-mining, distributed data mining, etc.); Statistical Modeling (regression analysis, six sigma modeling, principal component analysis, time series analysis, etc.); and, Business Process Re-engineering (BPR). This book also focuses on various applications in Production (inventory process and supply chain management), Marketing/advertising and optimal pricing, Customer relationship management applications (churn, response), Distribution (wholesale, retail, e-commerce), Finance, Human resources (Knowledge management, IPR management), Telecom and network processes, Business intelligence, etc.