Computational Intelligence in Business Analytics: Concepts, Methods, and Tools for Big Data Applications

Foreword

“In God we trust. Everyone else bring data.”

—W. Edwards Demming

We are at the dawn of a new era. An era that almost crashed and died quietly without many people noticing or paying attention. This era of computational intelligence is about to make all of the accomplishments by the baby boomers obsolete. In this era, computational intelligence paradigms will be embedded into everything—your credit card, the train tracks, the books you read, the stores you frequent, your body! This era will cause massive disruption in businesses throughout the globe. This is an era where new business empires have rapidly emerged—the likes of Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn—and this will be an era where industry giants who are not forward thinking go by ...