Ahmed Elragal

Ahmed Elragal
Luleå University of Technology | LTU · Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering (SRT)

PhD in Information Systems

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Introduction
Prof. Ahmed Elragal (PhD, MBA, BSc) is a Professor of Information Systems at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden, since January 2014. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Information Systems at Kristiania University College (KUC), Oslo. Prof. Elragal used to work at the Department of Business Informatics and Operations Management, German University in Cairo (GUC), 2007-2018 and the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), 1992-2007.
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Luleå University of Technology
Position
  • Professor
August 2007 - November 2014
German University in Cairo (GUC)-Egypt & Luleå University of Technology-Sweden
Position
  • Professor (Full)
Education
January 1999 - November 2001
University of Plymouth
Field of study
  • Decision Support Systems

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Publications (96)
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In the information era, enormous amounts of data have become available on hand to decision makers. Big data refers to datasets that are not only big, but also high in variety and velocity, which makes them difficult to handle using traditional tools and techniques. Due to the rapid growth of such data, solutions need to be studied and provided in o...
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Service innovation is attracting attention with the expanding service industries and economies. Accompanied by major developments in ICT and sensory and digital technologies, the interest in digital service innovation (DSI), both from academia and industry, is increasing. Digitization and the accompanying technological advancements are leading to p...
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Most scientists are accustomed to make predictions based on consolidated and accepted theories pertaining to the domain of prediction. However, nowadays big data analytics (BDA) is able to deliver predictions based on executing a sequence of data processing while seemingly abstaining from being theoretically informed about the subject matter. This...
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Decisions continue to be important to researchers, organizations and societies. However, decision research requires re-orientation to attain the future of data-driven decision making, accommodating such emerging topics and information technologies as big data, analytics, machine learning, and automated decisions. Accordingly, there is a dire need f...
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The digital transformation of organizations and societies and the increasing availability of big data and analytics make decision-making more complex and dynamic. This challenge is likely to continue and accelerate. Therefore, there is an urgent need for a new scientific approach to facilitate decision-making based on evidence from data. Quite rece...
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This research examines the potential use of modern technologies such as big data, data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, which have penetrated several aspects of our lives, to address food concerns and problems, forming the nowadays called food analytics. We discuss the potential use of such technologies in relation to food pr...
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In an ideal world, how individuals learn should align with the methods they are taught. However, this is not always the case, and it is necessary to reconsider the approach to teaching in academic institutions, such as universities, to help students learn at their own pace. Innovative technology plays a vital role in achieving this objective. This...
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This research addresses the demanding need for research in healthcare analytics, by explaining how previous studies have used big data, AI, and machine learning to identify, address, or solve healthcare problems. Healthcare science methods are combined with contemporary data science techniques to examine the literature, identify research gaps, and...
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In the context of developing machine learning models, until and unless we have the required data engineering and machine learning development competencies as well as the time to train and test different machine learning models and tune their hyperparameters, it is worth trying out the automatic machine learning features provided by several cloud-ba...
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In the context of developing machine learning models, until and unless we have the required data engineering and machine learning development competencies as well as the time to train and test different machine learning models and tune their hyperparameters, it is worth trying out the automatic machine learning features provided by several cloud-ba...
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Decision making has evolved throughout the years, nowadays harnessing massive amounts and types of data through the unprecedented capabilities of data science, analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. This has potentially led to higher quality and more informed decisions based on the collaborative rationality between humans and mac...
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This paper addresses a need for developing ex-post evaluation for data-driven decisions resulting from collaboration between humans and machines. As a first step of a design science project, we propose four design objectives for an ex-post evaluation solution, from the perspectives of both theory (concepts from the literature) and practice (through...
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Bookkeeping data free of fraud and errors are a cornerstone of legitimate business operations. The highly complex and laborious work of financial auditors calls for finding new solutions and algorithms to ensure the correctness of financial statements. Both supervised and unsupervised machine learning (ML) techniques nowadays are being successfully...
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The relationship between big data analytics (BDA) and smart cities (SCs) has been addressed in several articles. However, few articles have investigated the influence of exploiting BDA in data-driven decision-making from an empirical perspective in a case study context. Accordingly, we aim to tackle this scarcity of case-study research addressing t...
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Interest in smart cities (SCs) and big data analytics (BDA) has increased in recent years, revealing the bond between the two fields. An SC is characterized as a complex system of systems involving various stakeholders, from planners to citizens. Within the context of SCs, BDA offers potential as a data-driven decision-making enabler. Although ther...
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Transforming the state-of-the-art definition and anatomy of enterprise systems (ESs) seems to some academics and practitioners as an unavoidable destiny. Value depletion lead by early retirement and/or replacement of ESs solutions has been a constant throughout the past decade. That did drive an enormous amount of research that works on addressing...
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Ongoing advancements in technology have dramatically changed the disclosure media that companies adopt. Such disclosure media have evolved from traditional paper-based ones to the internet as the new platform for disclosing information on companies’ designated websites; however, the new media for disclosures are currently social media platforms. Am...
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Purpose Within digital innovation, there are two significant consequences of the pervasiveness of digital technology: (1) the increasing connectivity is enabling a wider reach and scope of innovation structures, such as innovation networks and (2) the unprecedented availability of digital data is creating new opportunities for innovation. According...
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Purpose Within digital innovation, there are two significant consequences of the pervasiveness of digital technology: (1) the increasing connectivity is enabling a wider reach and scope of innovation structures, such as innovation networks and (2) the unprecedented availability of digital data is creating new opportunities for innovation. According...
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Purpose-This study investigates the extent and characteristics of corporate Internet disclosure via companies’ websites as well via social media and networks sites in the four leading English speaking stock markets, namely Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Design/methodology/approach–A disclosure index comprising of a se...
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Abstract Scholars have been increasingly calling for innovative research in the organizational sciences in general, and the information systems (IS) field in specific, one that breaks from the dominance of gap-spotting and specific methodical confinements. Hence, pushing the boundaries of information systems is needed, and one way to do so is by re...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate corporate financial disclosure via Twitter among the top listed 350 companies in the UK as well as identify the determinants of the extent of social media usage to disclose financial information. Design/methodology/approach This study applies an unsupervised machine learning technique, namely, La...
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Many technologies have been used in education. Such technologies fall under three main types: learning management systems; education data mining; and AI-enabled technologies. This report focuses on the use of robotics in interactive education. Over the past few years, interest in utilization of robotics in education has increased. Multiple attempts...
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An analytics-empowered enterprise system looks to many organizations to be a far-fetched target, owing to the vast amounts of factors that need to be controlled across the implementation lifecycle activities, especially during usage and maintenance phases. On the other hand, advanced analytics techniques such as machine learning and data mining hav...
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Given the different types of artifacts and their various evaluation methods, one of the main challenges faced by researchers in design science research (DSR) is choosing suitable and efficient methods during the artifact evaluation phase. With the emergence of big data analytics, data scientists conducting DSR are also challenged with identifying s...
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Call for Papers- Special Issue: Rejuvenating Enterprise Systems Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems
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Introducing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system within an organization can bring many benefits and paybacks, yet an effective implementation of a fully functioning ERP system is still a challenge, the odds are high the costly investment might turn into an implementation failure or even lead to bankruptcy. To prevent such situations, organi...
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Smart City (SC) is an emerging concept aiming at mitigating the challenges raised due to the continuous urbanization development. To face these challenges, government decision makers sponsor SC projects targeting sustainable economic growth and better quality of life for inhabitants and visitors. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is...
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Big data visualization tools are analytical tools used by organizations for the purpose of discovering knowledge. With the support of interactive visual interfaces, methods and techniques for analyzing big data are applied to facilitate the knowledge discovery process and provide domain relevant insights. Many studies, both academic and industrial,...
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In the public sector, the EU legislation requires preservation and opening of increasing amounts of heterogeneous digital information that should be utilized by citizens and businesses. While technologies such as big data analytics (BDA) have emerged, opening of digital archives and collections at a large scale is in its infancy. Opening archives a...
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Information is a key success factor influencing the performance of decision makers, specifically the quality of their decisions. Nowadays, sheer amounts of data are available for organizations to analyze. Data is considered the raw material of the 21st century, and abundance is assumed with today's 15 billion devices [aka Things!] already connected...
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Information is a key success factor influencing the performance of decision makers, specifically the quality of their decisions. Nowadays, sheer amounts of data are available for organizations to analyze. Data is considered the raw material of the 21st century, and abundance is assumed with today’s 15 billion devices [aka Things!] already connected...
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In 2011, at the Hanover Fair, the term Industry 4.0 was first coined. In October 2012, the Working Group on Industry 4.0, presented a set of implementation recommendations to the German government.The term Industry 4.0 initiates from a project in the high-tech strategy of the German government. Such project advocates the computerization of the manu...
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Organizations rely on various types of information systems (IS) to manage day-to-day business and make decisions such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management (SCM) systems. Organizations rely on ERP systems to replace their legacy systems, integrate core business processes and to help adding value and increasing visibility...
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This research investigates how companies operating in emerging markets and investing in latest IT solutions can be supported in developing maturity in business-IT alignment faster than their predeces-sors in developed countries. It follows up the consultant perspective through documenting ex-post the participant’s observations, reflected through pa...
Technical Report
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The research area known as big data is characterized by the 3 V's, which are volume ; variety; and velocity. Recently, also veracity and value have been associated with big data and that adds up to the 5 V's. Big data related information systems (IS) are typically highly distributed and scalable in order to handle the huge datasets in organizations...
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The research area known as big data is characterized by the 3 V's, which are volume ; variety; and velocity. Recently, also veracity and value have been associated with big data and that adds up to the 5 V's. Big data related information systems (IS) are typically highly distributed and scalable in order to handle the huge datasets in organizations...
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The research area known as big data is characterized by the 3 V's, which are volume ; variety; and velocity. Recently, also veracity and value have been associated with big data and that adds up to the 5 V's. Big data related information systems (IS) are typically highly distributed and scalable in order to handle the huge datasets in organizations...
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Abstract - A huge amount of location and tracking data is gathered by tracking and location technologies, such as global positioning system (GPS) and global system for mobile communication (GSM) devices leading to the collection of large spatiotemporal datasets and to the opportunity of discovering usable knowledge about movement behavior. Movement...
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Due to business dynamics and complexities, aligning information systems to the organizational strategy goals has appeared to be a concern for researchers and practitioners over the last decade. The challenge of achieving this alignment becomes even more severe and demanding day after day. Many published research is rich with regards to alignment mo...
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The world is witnessing an unprecedented interest in big data. Big data is data that is big in size (volume), big in variety (structured; semi-structured; unstructured), and big in speed of change (velocity). It was reported that almost 90% of the data worldwide was just created in the past 2 years. Therefore, this paper is an attempt to align ERP...
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This literature review paper summarizes the state-of-the-art research on big data analytics. Due to massive amount of data exchanged everyday and the increased need for better data-based decision, businesses nowadays are looking for ways to efficiently manage, and optimize these huge datasets. Moreover, because of globalization, partnerships, value...
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This paper aims to explore and investigate two ERP deployment methods (DM); on-premise (OP) and cloud-based (CB). The paper will focus on the differences between their benefits and challenges. In the end, a framework will be devised in order to assist companies with regards to whether to adopt the OP or the CB method. A case study is used as the mo...
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Huge amount of location and tracking data is gathered by location and tracking technologies, such as global positioning system (GPS) and global system for mobile communication (GSM) devices; leading to the collection of large spatiotemporal datasets and to the opportunity of discovering usable knowledge about movement behavior. Movement behavior ca...
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There is currently a huge amount of data being collected about movements of objects. Such data is called spatiotemporal data and paths left by moving-objects are called trajectories. Recently, researchers have been targeting those trajectories for extracting interesting and useful knowledge by means of pattern analysis and data mining. But, it is d...
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Nowadays, many organisations have a number of disparate data stores, which need a centralised single version of truth decision support system that would enable executives to monitor the business performance and make decisions in an efficient manner. Currently, emerging technological advancements pose lots of opportunities towards the transformation...
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Nowadays, many organizations have a number of disparate data stores, which need a centralized single version of truth decision support system that would enable executives to monitor the business performance and make decisions in an efficient manner. Currently, emerging technological advancements pose lots of opportunities towards the transformation...
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According to statistics, majority of ERP implementations fail. Failure means either total cancellation of the project, or failure to go-live on time and/or within budget constraints. Mainstream literature focuses on different reasons for failure including poor project management, resistance to change, lack of top management support, insufficient us...
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Purpose – Trajectory is the path a moving object takes in space. To understand the trajectory movement patters, data mining is used. However, pattern analysis needs semantics to be understood. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to enrich trajectories with semantic annotations, such as the name of the location where the trajectory has stopped,...
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There is currently an increasing availability of large spatiotemporal datasets. Sequences of spatiotemporal data or paths, also known as trajectories, can be captured by modern technology and stored in moving-object databases (MOD) or a trajectory data warehouse. It is a common challenge for knowledge discovery within MODs to query proximities and...
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A lot of research has been undertaken focusing on ERP systems lifecycles, but very little paid attention to retirement. ERP retirement means the replacement of an ERP with another. The aim of this research paper is to investigate why and when should organizations retire their ERP systems. A convenience case study of a SME has been selected from Egy...
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems adoptions require substantial resources and investments. The majority of businesses around the globe can be considered to be small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Thus, SMEs are seen to be typical companies that are the cornerstone of most economies. Compared with large enterprises, an SME-context con...
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This chapter is an effort towards illustrating the use of expert panels (EP) as a means of eliciting knowledge from a group of enterprise resource planning (ERP) experts in an exploratory research. The development of a cost estimation model for ERP adoptions is very crucial for research and practice, and that was the main reason behind the willingn...
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This paper explores the enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems literature in an attempt to elucidate knowledge to help us see the future of ERP systems’ research. The main purpose of this research is to study the development of ERP systems and other related areas in order to reach the constructs of mainstream literature. The analysis of literat...
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Recent developments in wireless technology, mobility and networking infrastructures increased the amounts of data being captured every second. Data captured from the digital traces of moving objects and devices is called trajectory data. With the increasing volume of spatiotemporal trajectories, constructive and meaningful knowledge needs to be ext...
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The emergence of the Enterprise 2.0 technologies indicates that they can provide value to different types of users and potentially different types of value. Many published research explored what these E2.0 tools and applications can offer to organizations, such as collaboration platforms, social networking and user-created content, enhancing their...
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This paper provides a framework for comparison between the implementation of ERP systems in-house versus the in-cloud implementations. The paper first establishes a framework for the comparison based on three factors: pre-live i.e., the implementation methodologies of both options, post-live i.e., cost, time, and the user-friendliness of the system...
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This chapter is an effort towards illustrating the use of expert panels (EP) as a means of eliciting knowledge from a group of enterprise resource planning (ERP) experts in an exploratory research. The development of a cost estimation model for ERP adoptions is very crucial for research and practice, and that was the main reason behind the willingn...
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A lot of research has been undertaken focusing on ERP systems lifecycles, but very little paid attention to retirement. ERP retirement means the replacement of an ERP with another. The aim of this research paper is to investigate why and when should organizations retire their ERP systems. A convenience case study of an SME has been selected from Eg...
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In this case study, Egypt’s Census Bureau (CAPMAS) is described in terms of how it uses business intelligence to support its mission and objectives. The case is organized as follows: CAPMAS is described in terms of its mission, data used, agencies served, and the on-demand information services it offers. Then, the fundamentals of business intellige...
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There is currently plenty of research concerning the effect of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems on business performance. Previous research has shown a mixed relationship between ERP and business performance where some suggested that ERP improves performance and others found that it does not. Previous research was mainly based on quantitat...
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Classification of enterprise portal systems (EP) based on their features is the topic of this paper. We propose a classification based on cluster analysis which depends on features collected from the internet. Results showed that systems were found to belong to different classes based on their features.
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Integrating business intelligence (BI) as a framework to support EGov decisions is vital. Data mining, a major BI component, is a group of techniques used to find hidden patterns and unknown facts in data sets. In this paper, we implemented the Pan America Health Organization (PAHO) and World Health Organization (WHO) PAHO/WHO hospital safety index...
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There has been an increasing interest in ERP systems in both research and practice in the last decade. But unfortunately in many occasions a lot of companies have stopped using these systems after they went-live with the implementation. This study is an attempt to reveal the factors influencing users‘ intention to continue using the ERP system. A s...
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This paper is an effort towards illustrating the use of expert panel (EP) as a mean of eliciting knowledge from a group of enterprise resource planning (ERP) experts as an exploratory research. The development of a cost estimation model (CEM) for ERP adoptions is very crucial for research and practice, and that was the main reason behind the willin...
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Outliers, the odd objects in the dataset, can be viewed from two different perspectives; the outliers as undesirable objects that should be treated or deleted in the data preparation step of the data mining process, and the outliers as interesting objects that are identified for their own interest in the data mining step of the mining process. In t...
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Outliers, the odd objects in the dataset, can be viewed from two different perspectives; the outliers as undesirable objects that should be treated or deleted in the data preparation step of the data mining process, and the outliers as interesting objects that are identified for their own interest in the data mining step of the mining process. In t...
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A lot of research has been undertaken focusing on ERP systems lifecycles, but very little paid attention to retirement. ERP retirement means the replacement of an ERP with another. The aim of this research paper is to investigate why and when should organizations retire their ERP systems. A convenience case study of an SME has been selected from Eg...
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Due to the rapid advancements in technology, and the innovations in mobile, sensor, and GPS devices, increasing amounts of data related to moving objects has become available. Trajectory data mining is the application of conventional data mining techniques on the movement of such trajectories. However, traditional raw trajectories are depicted only...

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The question is related to the future of enterprise systems in organisations to cope with the widespread use of today's hottest ICT topics i.e., big data; data science; open data; & IoT? Sure there is an impact, but what kind of impact is expected?

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