Operational Research in the Digital Era – ICT Challenges

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Final Energy Consumption Forecasting by Applying Artificial Intelligence Models

   • Georgios N. Kouziokas, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Konstantinos Perakis

   Pages 1-10

3. Game-Theoretic Approaches in Cloud and P2P Networks: Issues and Challenges

   • Georgia Koloniari, Angelo Sifaleras

   Pages 11-22

4. A Proactive Model for Joint Maintenance and Logistics Optimization in the Frame of Industrial Internet of Things

   • Alexandros Bousdekis, Gregoris Mentzas

   Pages 23-45

5. Adoption of Digital Currencies: The Companies’ Perspective

   • Ioanna Roussou, Emmanouil Stiakakis

   Pages 47-64

6. Unemployment Prediction in UK by Using a Feedforward Multilayer Perceptron

   • Georgios N. Kouziokas

   Pages 65-74

7. Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocols for BIG Data Application

   • Evangelos Balasas, Kostas E. Psannis, Manos Roumeliotis

   Pages 75-87

8. Vehicle Routing Problem for Urban Freight Transportation: A Review of the Recent Literature

   • Sotiris P. Gayialis, Grigorios D. Konstantakopoulos, Ilias P. Tatsiopoulos

   Pages 89-104

9. Development of a Framework for the Assessment of Soft Skills in the ICT Sector

   • Valasia-Anna Valavosiki, Emmanouil Stiakakis, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou

   Pages 105-123

10. Cloud Computing Adoption Decision in E-government

    • Ioannis Nanos, Vicky Manthou, Efthimia Androutsou

    Pages 125-145

11. A Unified Framework for Decision-Making Process on Social Media Analytics

    • Nikolaos Misirlis, Maro Vlachopoulou

    Pages 147-159

12. Back Matter

    Pages 161-169

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This proceedings volume highlights the role and importance of Operational Research (OR) in the digital era and the underlying ICT challenges. The selected papers cover recent advances in all branches of operational research, mathematical modeling and decision making. It covers a wide range of key areas from digital economy, to supply chain management, and also finance. The book adopts an applied perspective that covers the contributions of OR in the broad field of business and economics linked with the discipline of computer science. The chapters are based on papers presented at the 6th International Symposium & 28th National Conference on Operational Research. Although the conference is organized by the Hellenic Operational Research Society (HELORS), the contributions in this book promotes international co-operation among researchers and practitioners working in the field.

• Operations Research
• Operational Research
• Mathematical Optimization
• Optimization
• Quantitative Decision Making
• Quantitative Finance
• Information and Communication Technology
• ICT Applications
• HELORS
• Agent-Based Modeling
• Stochastic Programming
• Data Mining

• Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

  Angelo Sifaleras, Konstantinos Petridis

Angelo Sifaleras is an Assistant Professor of Mathematical Programming - Network Optimization at the University of Macedonia, Department of Applied Informatics, School of Information Sciences, Greece, Thessaloniki. His research focuses on algorithms and models for network optimization problems. Currently, he serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research (YUJOR) and he is also a senior member of ACM.

Konstantinos Petridis received his Ph.D in Operational Research at Democritus University. His research interests and expertise lie in quantitative methods: mathematical programming models for optimization and design of supply chain networks, mathematical programming models for forest and agricultural scheduling and production and data envelopment analysis models for various scientific fields (bioenergy, computer science, scientometrics, energy). Furthermore, he is working on the field of e-waste management applying advanced forecasting techniques.

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