New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 1
This book contains a selection of articles from The 2014 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'14), held between the 15th and 18th of April in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, a global forum for researchers and practitioners to pr
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Álvaro Rocha Ana Maria Correia Felix B. Tan Karl A. Stroetmann Editors
New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 1
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Volume 275
Series editor Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland e-mail: [email protected]
For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/11156
About this Series The series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” contains publications on theory, applications, and design methods of Intelligent Systems and Intelligent Computing. Virtually all disciplines such as engineering, natural sciences, computer and information science, ICT, economics, business, e-commerce, environment, healthcare, life science are covered. The list of topics spans all the areas of modern intelligent systems and computing. The publications within “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” are primarily textbooks and proceedings of important conferences, symposia and congresses. They cover significant recent developments in the field, both of a foundational and applicable character. An important characteristic feature of the series is the short publication time and world-wide distribution. This permits a rapid and broad dissemination of research results.
Advisory Board Chairman Nikhil R. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India e-mail: [email protected] Members Emilio S. Corchado, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain e-mail: [email protected] Hani Hagras, University of Essex, Colchester, UK e-mail: [email protected] László T. Kóczy, Széchenyi István University, Gy˝or, Hungary e-mail: [email protected] Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, USA e-mail: [email protected] Chin-Teng Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan e-mail: [email protected] Jie Lu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia e-mail: [email protected] Patricia Melin, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico e-mail: [email protected] Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil e-mail: [email protected] Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland e-mail: [email protected] Jun Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong e-mail: [email protected]
Álvaro Rocha · Ana Maria Correia Felix B. Tan · Karl A. Stroetmann Editors
New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 1
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Editors Álvaro Rocha Universidade de Coimbra & LIACC Rio Tinto Portugal Ana Maria Correia Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisboa Portugal
ISSN 2194-5357 ISBN 978-3-319-05950-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-05951-8
Felix B. Tan Department of Business Information Systems Auckland University of Technology Auckland New Zealand Karl A. Stroetmann Empirica GmbH Bonn Germany
ISSN 2194-5365 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-05951-8 (eBook)
Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014934570 c Springer International Publishing Switzerland