This book presents advances in business computing and data analytics by
discussing recent and innovative machine learning methods that have been
designed to support decision-making processes. These methods form the
theoretical foundations of intelligent management systems, which allows
for companies to understand the market environment, to improve the
analysis of customer needs, to propose creative personalization of
contents, and to design more effective business strategies, products,
and services. This book gives an overview of recent methods - such as
blockchain, big data, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing - so
readers can rapidly explore them and their applications to solve common
business challenges. The book aims to empower readers to leverage and
develop creative supervised and unsupervised methods to solve business
decision-making problems.