Big Data and Information Theory

Jiuping Xu is Associate Vice President, Dean of Business School, and Director of Institute of Emergency Management and Reconstruction in Post-disaster of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. He has published more than 700 peer-reviewed journal papers and over 40 books.Syed Ejaz Ahmed is Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at Brock University, St Catharines, Canada. His research interests concentrate on big data, predictive modeling, data science, and statistical machine learning with applications.Zongmin Li is Deputy Department Head of Management Science and System Science Department of Business School at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. Her research interests focus on data-driven decision-making and big data analytics.

• Preface 1. Engineering management: new advances and three open questions 2. Bayes and big data: the consensus Monte Carlo algorithm 3. Measurement and analysis of quality of life related to environmental hazards: the methodology illustrated by recent epidemiological studies 4. Big data analytics: integrating penalty strategies 5. Seeking relationships in big data: a Bayesian perspective 6. Designing a data-driven leagile sustainable closed-loop supply chain network 7. Exploring capability maturity models and relevant practices as solutions addressing information technology service offshoring project issues 8. The evolution and governance of online rumors during the public health emergency: taking COVID-19 pandemic related rumors as an example 9. An empirical study of data warehouse implementation effectiveness 10. Developing a preliminary cost estimation model for tall buildings based on machine learning 11. A framework for managing uncertainty in information system project selection: an intelligent fuzzy approach