Business Analytics and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue focuses on business analytics, analytical approaches, and applications. In particular, we aim to publish comprehensive surveys of related existing and emerging trends, opportunities and challenges of scientific and practical significance, their evaluations, and innovative solutions.

Of special interest are contributions that reflect current technological advances (e.g., artificial intelligence, cloud computing, open data, and models), including the consideration of ethics, in particular data security and data privacy, explainability, fairness, etc.

Other suggested topics include:

• Concepts, definitions, theories, models, methods, frameworks, applications, and influencing factors.
• Performance, maturity, capabilities, limitations, etc.
• Readiness, provision, use, and collaboration/cooperation in organizations.
• Impact on business performance and mechanisms for increasing business growth.
• Education, expertise, specializations, and the specialist market.
• Unintentional, (un)responsible, and/or (un)ethical use.

Prof. Dr. Tatiana Ermakova
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Fabian
Guest Editors

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