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Book SynopsisIn social science outstanding results are yielded by advanced simulation methods, based on state of the art software technologies and an appropriate combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. This book presents examples of successful applications of modelling and computing in social science: business and logistic process simulation and optimization, deeper knowledge extractions from big data, better understanding and predicting of social behaviour and modelling health and environment changes.
Table of ContentsContents: Biljana Mileva Boshkoska/Nadja Damij: An outline for business process modelling using spreadsheets – Tadej Kanduč/Blaž Rodič: Manufacturing processes optimisation in a furniture factory – Borut Rončević/Urška Fric: Researching Industrial Symbiosis: Challenges and Dilemmas – Petar Juric/Maja Matetic/Marija Brkic: Game-based Learning and Social Media API in Higher Education – Andrej Kovačič/Nevenka Podgornik: Negatively Biased Media in Slovenia – Andrej Dobrovoljc/Jože Bučar: Measuring security culture of users of online banking – Jana Suklan/Vesna Žabkar: Modelling Synergies between Online and Offline Media – Jernej Agrež/Miroslav Bača/Nadja Damij: An open framework biometric system optimisation – Biljana Mileva Boshkoska: A framework for qualitative evaluation of air pollution levels – Albert Zorko/Zoran Levnajić: The overview of recent findings in diagnostics of mental disorders – Dragana Miljkovic/Kristina Gruden/Nada Lavrač: Improving biological models with experts knowledge and literature.
