Table of Contents by Volume Preface........................................................................................................................................... clxxxix Guide to the Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition.................cxciv Acknowledgment..............................................................................................................................cxcvi About the Editor............................................................................................................................ cxcvii Volume I Category: Accounting and Finance High.Frequency.Trading.......................................................................................................................... 1 Peter Gomber, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Martin Haferkorn, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Innovation.of.Management.Accounting.Practices.and.Techniques....................................................... 10 Davood Askarany, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Meta-Digital.Accounting.in.the.Context.of.Cloud.Computing............................................................. 20 Alexandru Tugui, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Romania Operating.Room.Management.Accounting.and.Cost.Calculation.Model.for.Operating.Rooms........... 33 Matteo Buccioli, Morgagni-Pierantoni Hospital, Italy Peter Perger, University of Bologna, Italy Vanni Agnoletti, Morgagni-Pierantoni Hospital, Italy Rebecca Levy Orelli, University of Bologna, Italy Emanuele Padovani, University of Bologna, Italy Giorgio Gambale, Morgagni-Pierantoni Hospital, Italy Sustainability.Reporting.Framework.for.Voluntary.Reporting.or.Disclosure.in.Turkey....................... 44 Ganite Kurt, Gazi University, Turkey Tugba Ucma Uysal, Mugla Sitki Kocman University, Turkey Technology-Based.Mergers.and.Acquisitions....................................................................................... 53 Daojuan Wang, Aalborg University, Denmark Hamid Moini, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA Category: Artificial Intelligence Applications.of.Swarm.Intelligence.in.Remanufacturing...................................................................... 66 Bo Xing, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa Wen-Jing Gao, Mei Yuan Mould Design and Manufacturing Co., China Architecture.as.a.Problem.Solving.Tool................................................................................................ 75 J McKee, Independent Researcher, Australia Artificial.Intelligence.and.Investing....................................................................................................... 85 Roy Rada, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Hayden Wimmer, Bloomsburg University, USA Assessing.Collaborative.Problem.Solving.through.Computer.Agent.Technologies............................. 94 Yigal Rosen, Pearson, USA Audio-Visual.Speech.Emotion.Recognition........................................................................................ 103 Oryina Kingsley Akputu, Sunway University, Malaysia Kah Phooi Seng, Edith Cowan University, Australia Yun Li Lee, Sunway University, Malaysia Classification.Reasoning.as.a.Basic.Part.of.Machine.Learning........................................................... 114 Xenia Naidenova, Military Medical Academy, Russia Cognitive.Approaches.for.Intelligent.Networks................................................................................... 122 T.R. Gopalakrishnan Nair, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University (PMU), Saudi Arabia & Dayananda Sagar Institutions (DSI), India Cuckoo.Search.for.Optimization.and.Computational.Intelligence...................................................... 133 Xin-She Yang, School of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, UK Suash Deb, Cambridge Institute of Technology, India Emotion-Based.Music.Retrieval.......................................................................................................... 143 C.H.C. Leung, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong J. Deng, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Hybrid.Computational.Intelligence..................................................................................................... 154 Georgios Dounias, University of the Aegean, Greece Hybrid.Genetic.Metaheuristic.for.Two-Dimensional.Constrained.Guillotinable.Cutting.Problems... 163 Hamza Gharsellaoui, National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (INSAT), Carthage University, Tunisia Hamadi Hasni, National School of Computer Science, ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia Hybrid.Swarm.Intelligence.................................................................................................................. 175 Tad Gonsalves, Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Sophia University, Japan Infinite.Petri.Nets.as.Models.of.Grids.................................................................................................. 187 Dmitry A. Zaitsev, International Humanitarian University, Ukraine Ivan D. Zaitsev, Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Russia Tatiana R. Shmeleva, Odessa National Academy of Telecommunications, Ukraine Machine.Learning................................................................................................................................ 205 Petr Berka, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic & University of Finance and Administration, Prague, Czech Republic Machine.Learning.for.Image.Classification......................................................................................... 215 Yu-Jin Zhang, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China Prediction.of.Major.Earthquakes.as.Rare.Events.Using.RF-Typed.Polynomial.Neural.Networks...... 227 Simon Fong, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, China Suash Deb, Cambridge Institute of Technology, India Present.State.of.Swarm.Intelligence.and.Future.Directions................................................................ 239 Utku Kose, Usak University, Turkey Probabilistic.Methods.in.Automatic.Speech.Recognition................................................................... 253 Paul De Palma, Gonzaga University, USA Recent.Advancements.in.Gabor.Wavelet-Based.Face.Recognition..................................................... 262 Iqbal Nouyed, Computer Vision and Cybernetics Research Group, School of Engineering and Computer Science, Independent University Bangladesh, Bangladesh M. Ashraful Amin, School of Engineering and Computer Science, Independent University Bangladesh, Bangladesh Stochastic.Neural.Network.Classifiers................................................................................................. 275 Eitan Gross, University of Arkansas, USA The.Bees.Algorithm.as.a.Biologically.Inspired.Optimisation.Method............................................... 285 D.T. Pham, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK M. Castellani, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK The.Still.Image.Lossy.Compression.Standard.-.JPEG........................................................................ 295 Yair Wiseman, Computer Science Department, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Variable.Importance.Evaluation.for.Machine.Learning.Tasks............................................................ 306 Martti Juhola, University of Tampere, Finland Tapio Grönfors, University of Eastern Finland, Finland Category: Assistive Technologies Assistive.Navigation.Systems.for.the.Visually.Impaired..................................................................... 315 Kai Li Lim, Sunway University, Malaysia Lee Seng Yeong, Sunway University, Malaysia Kah Phooi Seng, Edith Cowan University, Australia Li-Minn Ang, Edith Cowan University, Australia Context-Aware.Computing.for.Persons.with.Disabilities.................................................................... 328 Najd A. Al-Mouh, King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Hend S. Al-Khalifa, Information Technology Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Mobile.Technologies.for.Elderly.People.............................................................................................. 336 Muna S. Al-Razgan, Information Technology Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Hend S. Al-Khalifa, Information Technology Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Mona D. Al-Shahrani, Information Technology Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Hessah H. AlAjmi, Information Technology Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Visual.Disabilities,.Information.Technology,.and.the.Learning.of.Mathematics................................ 345 Nancy Alajarmeh, Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University, USA Enrico Pontelli, Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University, USA Category: Big Data Big.Data.Analytics.for.Business.......................................................................................................... 355 Raymond Kosala, Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia Richard Kumaradjaja, Renaissance Consulting, Indonesia Big.Data.Issues.and.Challenges..........................................................................................................