Using big data to make better decisions in the digital economy
该特刊探讨如何利用大数据帮助决策者做出更基于事实的决策，以提升绩效或制定更好战略，收录了13篇涵盖数据挖掘、仿真和专家系统等技术的论文，应用领域包括在线评论、食品零售和电子健康。
The question this special issue would like to address is how to harvest big data to help decision-makers to deliver better fact-based decisions aimed at improving performance or to create better strategy? This special issue focuses on the big data applications in supporting operations decisions, including advanced research on decision models and tools for the digital economy. Responds to this special issue was great and we have included many high-quality papers. We are pleased to present 13 of the best papers. The techniques presented include data mining, simulation and expert system with applications span across online reviews, food retail chain to e-health.