Business analytics and big data: driving organizational change / Dennis T. Kennedy, Dennis M. Crossen, Kathryn A. Szabat -- Predictive analytics / Sema A. Kalaian, Rafa M. Kasim -- Using big data opinion mining to predict rises and falls in the stock price index / Yoosin Kim, Michelle Jeong, Seung Ryul Jeong -- A modified stacking ensemble machine learning algorithm using genetic algorithms / Riyaz Sikora, O'la Al-Laymoun -- Organizational performance-design process: a discrete-events simulation approach / Hossein Arsham, Shaya Sheikh -- Data, information, and knowledge: developing an intangible assets strategy / G. Scott Erickson, Helen N. Rothberg -- Business analytics for business analysts in manufacturing / Coleen Wilder, Ceyhun Ozgur -- Big data transforming small and medium enterprises / Donna M. Schaeffer, Patrick C. Olson -- Nonprofit fundraising transformation through analytics / David George Vequist IV -- The role of business analytics in performance management / Kijpokin Kasemsap -- Evaluation of information awareness and understanding through different internal communication tools / Tanja Sedej, Damijan Mumel -- Empirical investigation on the evolution of BI maturity in Malaysian organizations / In Lih Ong, Pei Hwa Siew -- Cultural integration with strategic decision-making process in determining innovation performance: evidence from an Arab country setting / Ekaterini Galanou, Marios Katsioloudes -- A data warehouse integration methodology in support of collaborating SMEs / Marius Octavian Olaru, Maurizio Vincini -- Business intelligence, knowledge management, and customer relationship management technological support in enterprise competitive competence / Ming-Chang Lee -- Process improvements in supply chain operations: multi-firm case studies / Alan D. Smith -- Consumer information integration at pre-purchase: a discrete choice experiment / M. Deniz Dalman, Junhong Min -- Using data mining techniques and the choice of mode of text representation for improving the detection and filtering of spam / Reda Mohamed Hamou, Abdelmalek Amine -- Using supervised machine learning to explore energy consumption data in private sector housing / Mariya Sodenkamp, Konstantin Hopf, Thorsten Staake -- Application of data mining techniques on library circulation data for library material acquisition and budget allocation / Md. Hossain, Rashedur M. Rahman -- Some aspects of estimators for variance of normally distributed data / N. Hemachandra, Puja Sahu -- An exploration of backpropagation numerical algorithms in modeling US exchange rates / Salim Lahmiri -- Solving solid transportation problems with multi-choice cost and stochastic supply and demand / Sankar Kumar Roy, Deshabrata Roy Mahapatra -- Default probability prediction of credit applicants using a new fuzzy KNN method with optimal weights / Abbas Keramati, Niloofar Yousefi, Amin Omidvar.