Kamalendu Pal

With the realization of environmental and social sustainability in developing and using apparel products and services, stakeholders – particularly consumers- are more concerned...

Recent Semantic Web Technology developments indicate possible advancements in supply chain management. In particular, the innovative business process automation based on SWT...

Data-supported decision-making and understanding the customer's behaviour has become an essential and challenging problem for apparel businesses to sustain their position in...

Many textile companies have come to the realization that data is crucial for improving sales and revenue margins. Clothing brands and retailers must develop manufacturing and...

Apparel products are essential for any society, and its business operations are extensively competitive. The ability to optimize serving business processes while satisfying...

Modern manufacturing logistics and supply chain have transformed into highly complex value-creating business networks. It has become increasingly challenging to cross-check the...

Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain technology-based information system (IS) can be used to improve tracking of goods and services in offering and build a collaborative...

The internet of things (IoT) is ushering a new age of technology-driven automation of information systems into the manufacturing industry. One of the main concerns with IoT...

The manufacturing industry tends to worldwide business operations due to the economic benefits of product design and distribution operations. The design and development of a...

Adoption of the internet of things (IoT) and blockchain technology opens new opportunities of business process automation in apparel supply chain management. The IoT technology...

Global supply chain crisis management has become increasingly crucial for tackling unusual incidents (e.g., natural disaster, terrorism, pandemic). While crisis management has...

The internet of things (IoT) is ushering in a new dawn of technological innovations in recent decades for commercial applications. The technological innovation commercial...

This chapter discusses the challenges for the higher education sector during the coronavirus pandemic. It examines the advantages of information and communication technology...

Internet of things (IoT) technology is poised to change the flow of data handling for tangible and intangible assets in textile production and utilization industries. It is...

Technological innovation greatly supported global healthcare service in the recent coronavirus pandemic. The healthcare technical support came in two forms: (1) digitization of...

This chapter aims to investigate the research initiatives in supply chain resilience-related issues and presents the advantages of a semantically enhanced web service portal to...

Over the last few years, the world has witnessed a fast-paced digital transformation in many aspects of human life in healthcare owing to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic....

Software development is a knowledge-intensive practice. Software development teams rely on human resources and systematic approaches to share knowledge on system design. This...

Managing distributed and delocalized production is one of the essential characteristics to address in the recent market globalization in the manufacturing industry. In this...

Internet of things (IoT) and mobile edge computing (MEC) technology are ushering in a new dawn in industrial business process automation. It facilitates controlling and...

In recent years, big data, artificial intelligence techniques, the Internet of Things (IoT), and other evolving digital technologies have been essential in regular healthcare...

The internet of things (IoT) presents opportunities that enable communication between virtual and physical objects. It produces new digitized services that improve supply chain...

The central theme of this chapter is to provide an overview of new evolving technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID), the Internet of Things (IoT)...

The global retail industry changed drastically over the recent years as online shopping, led by gigantic Amazon, harvests an ever-increasing large share of the total retail...

Cognitive radio networks (CRNs) promise to meet device-to-device communication requirements for effective spectrum utilization and power control in a distributed environment for...

Digitization of manufacturing supply chain operations is essential in changing management practices and enhancing business transparency-related aspects. The digitalization of...

In recent decades, sustainability and green supply chain management have played essential roles in business operations. This chapter examines how the textile and apparel supply...

In recent decades, wireless sensor networks (WSNs)-based radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies are paving the way for the internet of things (IoT) industrial...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology uses radio frequency signals to identify tagged objects. RFID is an important technology used by the internet of things...

Information technologies are transforming conventional supply chain management (SCM) business practices and positively influencing sustainability. In particular, blockchain...

This chapter describes the challenges for the higher education sector during the recent coronavirus pandemic (i.e., COVID-19), and it also presents the advantages of information...

Wireless sensor data communication networks (WSNs) based on the Internet of Things (IoT) technology have many potential applications for the industrial world. The IoT paradigm...

Data-driven decision-making is the lifeblood of supply chain business processes' smooth execution. Technological development is ushering in the possible improvement of supply...

Big data analytics has played an enormous role in supply chain operations in recent years. Today, web-applications, social media, intelligent machines, sensors, mobile phones...

Agile software development methodologies are attracting attention from academics and practitioners for planning and managing software projects. The eXtreme Programming (XP)...

People work in software development projects to bundle the human resources and use the systematic approach to share system development knowledge. One can view knowledge as...

Global retail business has become diverse and latest Information Technology (IT) advancements have created new possibilities for the management of the deluge of data generated by...

The word crowdsourcing, a compound contraction of crowd and outsourcing, was introduced by Jeff Howe in order to define outsourcing to the crowd. It is a sourcing model in which...

The adoption of agility at a large scale often requires the integration of agile and non-agile development practices into hybrid software development and delivery environment....

Agile methodologies have become the preferred choice for modern software development. These methods focus on iterative and incremental development, where both requirements and...

Heterogeneous data types, widely distributed data sources, huge data volumes, and large-scale business-alliance partners describe typical global supply chain operational...

The industry's internet of things (IoT) applications have drawn significant research attention in recent decades. IoT is a technology in which intelligent objects with...

The supply chain forms the backbone of healthcare industry operations. The design and development of healthcare information systems (HIS) help different types of decision-making...

This chapter presents the central features of a knowledge-based system, evaluation method, which is deeply rooted to the principle of the Socratic style learning in law school....

This chapter describes the challenge to the higher education sector during the coronavirus pandemic. It also presents the lack of preparedness in crisis management and digital...

Healthcare service providers are dependent on accurate information systems. Some crucial challenges are (1) improvement of patient caring services, (2) containing the deployment...

Healthcare industry operation needs resources and information sharing between business partners. Internet of things (IoT) aims to simplify distributing data collection in the...

This chapter discusses the challenges for the higher education sector during the coronavirus pandemic. It examines students' changing communication practices and shopping...

In recent decades, the industrial applications of the internet of things (IoT) have been attracting massive motivation for research and improvement of industrial operations. The...

This chapter reflects on teaching practice in an undergraduate induction session introducing agile methodology-based product (e.g., software, paper-aircraft) development and...

Adoption of the internet of things (IoT) and blockchain technology opens new opportunities of business process automation in apparel supply chain management. The IoT technology...

The adoption of agility at a large scale often requires the integration of agile and non-agile development practices into hybrid software development and delivery environment....

Supply chain management (SCM) systems provide the ability of information sharing and interpretation of contextual information to businesses and help their day-to-day operations....

Supply chain coordination needs resource and information sharing between business partners. Recent advances in information and communication technology (ICT) enables the...

With the usage of the technologies like the internet of things (IoT) and Semantic Web service spanning across the spectrum of manufacturing, production, and distribution, typical...

The manufacturing industry inclines to worldwide business operations due to the economic advantage of product design and development. In this way, globalized manufacturing supply...

The recent coronavirus pandemic has now unleashed a global supply chain crisis across a huge number of organizations, stemming from a lack of understanding and flexibility of the...

Global supply chain crisis management has become increasingly crucial for tackling unusual incidents (e.g., natural disaster, terrorism, pandemic). While crisis management has...

Knowledge is recognized as a strategic resource, with major key drivers being the need to cut time to market and gain the business opportunities in a global market with new...

Software development is a knowledge-intensive practice. Software development teams rely on human resources and systematic approaches to share knowledge on system design. This...

The internet of things (IoT) is ushering a new age of technology-driven automation of information systems into the manufacturing industry. One of the main concerns with IoT...

Modern manufacturing logistics and supply chain have transformed into highly complex value-creating business networks. It has become increasingly challenging to cross-check the...

The manufacturing industry tends to worldwide business operations due to the economic benefits of product design and distribution operations. The design and development of a...

The advent of information and communication technologies (ICT) ushers a cost-effective prospect to take care of large volumes of complex data, commonly known as “big data” in the...

The concept of software agent has become essential in both artificial intelligence (AI) and mainstream computer science. Multi-agent systems (MAS) provide the way to design and...

Software agent-based computing is emerging as an essential technology for developing commercial distributed systems to deal with the uncertainty in a dynamic business...

The word crowdsourcing, a compound contraction of crowd and outsourcing, was introduced by Jeff Howe in order to define outsourcing to the crowd. It is a sourcing model in which...

The advent of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technique, low-cost wireless sensor devices, and web-based technologies are ushering new ways to take control of the plethora...

Manufacturing communities around the globe are eagerly witnessing the recent developments in semantic web technology (SWT). This technology combines a set of new mechanisms with...

Agile methodologies have become the preferred choice for modern software development. These methods focus on iterative and incremental development, where both requirements and...

Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain technology-based information system (IS) can be used to improve tracking of goods and services in offering and build a collaborative...

The advent of information and communication technologies (ICT) ushers a cost-effective prospect to take care of large volumes of complex data, commonly known as “big data” in the...

The concept of software agent has become important in both artificial intelligence and mainstream computer science. Multi-agent systems (MAS) are providing the way to design and...

The importance of integrating and coordinating supply chain business partners have been appreciated in many industries. In the global manufacturing industry, supply chain...

Heterogeneous data types, widely distributed data sources, huge data volumes, and large-scale business-alliance partners describe typical global supply chain operational...

Many industries prefer worldwide business operations due to the economic advantage of globalization on product design and development. These industries increasingly operate...

Nowadays a substantial share of the production processes of the world's apparel business is taking place in developing countries. In the apparel business, supply chain...

The radio frequency idtentification (RFID) is a wireless technology that enable automatic identification and extraction of stored information from any tagged object within a...

The use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has attracted a huge attention from the supply chain business community. This is due to the use of RFID technology...

The use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in Supply Chain Management (SCM) is one of the promising innovations in recent decades. This chapter first presents an...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology that uses radio frequency signals to identify tagged objects. RFID is an important technology used by the Internet of Things...

Global retail business has become diverse and latest Information Technology (IT) advancements have created new possibilities for the management of the deluge of data generated by...

The importance of integrating and coordinating supply chain business partners have been appreciated in many industries. In the global manufacturing industry, supply chain...