These proceedings represent the work of researchers participating in the 16th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies (ECRM 2017) which is being hosted this year by the Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland on 22‐23 June 2017. ECRM is a recognised event on the international research conferences calendar and provides a valuable platform for individuals to present their research findings, display their work in progress and discuss conceptual and empirical advances in the areas of research methodology. It provides an important opportunity for researchers and practitioners to come together to share their experiences of researching in this varied and expanding field. The conference this year will be opened with a keynote presentation by Professor Emma Bell who will address the topic Methodology‐as‐Technique and the Meaning of Rigour in Globalised Management Research. Later in the day Dr Frank Bannister will talk about The Philosophy of Explanation. The second day of the conference will be opened by Professor Cathal MacSwiney Brugha, who will address the topic Using Research Methodology to Explain the Rise of the Trump/Brexit Phenomenon, and the Weakness of Modern Governance. With an initial submission of 130 abstracts, after the double blind, peer‐review process there are 45 academic research papers, 11 PhD research papers and 4 work in progress papers published in these conference proceedings. These papers represent truly global research in the field, with contributions from Australia, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia Iran, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States of America, Zimbabwe.

These proceedings represent the work of researchers participating in the 17th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies (ECRM) which is being hosted this year by Università Roma TRE, Rome, Italy on 12-13 July 2018.

Conference Proceedings of 20th European Conference on Research Methods in Business and Management

The book Intelligent Systems and Applications - Proceedings of the 2020 Intelligent Systems Conference is a remarkable collection of chapters covering a wider range of topics in areas of intelligent systems and artificial intelligence and their applications to the real world. The Conference attracted a total of 545 submissions from many academic pioneering researchers, scientists, industrial engineers, students from all around the world. These submissions underwent a double-blind peer review process. Of those 545 submissions, 177 submissions have been selected to be included in these proceedings. As intelligent systems continue to replace and sometimes outperform human intelligence in decision-making processes, they have enabled a larger number of problems to be tackled more effectively.This branching out of computational intelligence in several directions and use of intelligent systems in everyday applications have created the need for such an international conference which serves as a venue to report on up-to-the-minute innovations and developments. This book collects both theory and application based chapters on all aspects of artificial intelligence, from classical to intelligent scope. We hope that readers find the volume interesting and valuable; it provides the state of the art intelligent methods and techniques for solving real world problems along with a vision of the future research.

The European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies was established 19 years ago. This event has been held in countries across Europe, including Ireland, England, France, Malta, Portugal, Spain to mention only a few of the countries who have hosted it. The conference is generally attended by participants from more than 25 countries. The Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods (indexed by Scopus) publishes a special edition of the best papers presented at this conference. The conference once again played host to the Innovation in Teaching of Research Methodology Excellence Awards

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