Operational Research in the Digital Era – ICT Challenges: 6th International Symposium and 28th National Conference on Operational Research, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 2017

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Final Energy Consumption Forecasting by Applying Artificial Intelligence Models (Georgios N. Kouziokas, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Konstantinos Perakis)....Pages 1-10 Game-Theoretic Approaches in Cloud and P2P Networks: Issues and Challenges (Georgia Koloniari, Angelo Sifaleras)....Pages 11-22 A Proactive Model for Joint Maintenance and Logistics Optimization in the Frame of Industrial Internet of Things (Alexandros Bousdekis, Gregoris Mentzas)....Pages 23-45 Adoption of Digital Currencies: The Companies’ Perspective (Ioanna Roussou, Emmanouil Stiakakis)....Pages 47-64 Unemployment Prediction in UK by Using a Feedforward Multilayer Perceptron (Georgios N. Kouziokas)....Pages 65-74 Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocols for BIG Data Application (Evangelos Balasas, Kostas E. Psannis, Manos Roumeliotis)....Pages 75-87 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 Development of a Framework for the Assessment of Soft Skills in the ICT Sector (Valasia-Anna Valavosiki, Emmanouil Stiakakis, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou)....Pages 105-123 Cloud Computing Adoption Decision in E-government (Ioannis Nanos, Vicky Manthou, Efthimia Androutsou)....Pages 125-145 A Unified Framework for Decision-Making Process on Social Media Analytics (Nikolaos Misirlis, Maro Vlachopoulou)....Pages 147-159 Back Matter ....Pages 161-169