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Information Systems

15th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, EMCIS 2018, Limassol, Cyprus, October 4-5, 2018, Proceedings

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Table of contents (42 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
  2. Blockchain Technology and Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Relationship Between Bitcoin Trading Volume, Volatility, and Returns: A Study of Four Seasons

      • Angelika Kokkinaki, Svetlana Sapuric, Ifigenia Georgiou
      Pages 3-15
    3. Verify-Your-Vote: A Verifiable Blockchain-Based Online Voting Protocol

      • Marwa Chaieb, Souheib Yousfi, Pascal Lafourcade, Riadh Robbana
      Pages 16-30
    4. To Chain or Not to Chain? A Case from Energy Sector

      • Marinos Themistocleous, Kypros Stefanou, Christos Megapanos, Elias Iosif
      Pages 31-37
  3. Big Data and Analytics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
    2. Big Data Analysis in UAV Surveillance for Wildfire Prevention and Management

      • Nikos Athanasis, Marinos Themistocleous, Kostas Kalabokidis, Christos Chatzitheodorou
      Pages 47-58
    3. Harnessing Cloud Scalability to Hadoop Clusters

      • Arne Koschel, Felix Heine, Irina Astrova
      Pages 59-71
    4. A Step Foreword Historical Data Governance in Information Systems

      • José Pedro Simão, Orlando Belo
      Pages 80-90
    5. Parliamentary Open Big Data: A Case Study of the Norwegian Parliament’s Open Data Platform

      • Lasse Berntzen, Rania El-Gazzar, Marius Rohde Johannessen
      Pages 91-105
    6. Data Requirements Elicitation in Big Data Warehousing

      • António A. C. Vieira, Luís Pedro, Maribel Yasmina Santos, João Miguel Fernandes, Luís S. Dias
      Pages 106-113
    7. Experimental Evaluation of Big Data Analytical Tools

      • Mário Rodrigues, Maribel Yasmina Santos, Jorge Bernardino
      Pages 121-127
  4. Cloud Computing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
    2. Towards a Formal Approach for Verifying Dynamic Workflows in the Cloud

      • Fairouz Fakhfakh, Hatem Hadj Kacem, Ahmed Hadj Kacem
      Pages 144-157
    3. CSCCRA: A Novel Quantitative Risk Assessment Model for Cloud Service Providers

      • Olusola Akinrolabu, Steve New, Andrew Martin
      Pages 177-184

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About this book

This book constitutes selected papers from the 15th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, EMCIS 2018, held in Limassol, Cyprus, in October 2018. EMCIS is dedicated to the definition and establishment of Information Systems as a discipline of high impact for the methodical community and IS professionals, focusing on approaches that facilitate the identification of innovative research of significant relevance to the IS discipline.

The 34 full and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 108 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: blockchain technology and applications; big data and analytics; cloud computing; digital services and social media; e-government; healthcare information systems; IT governance; and management and organizational issues in information systems. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Marinos Themistocleous

  • University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Paulo Rupino da Cunha

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