Lucian-Ionel Cioca – författare

The book aims at presenting a multidisciplinary view meant to illustrate several significant efforts and results about the contribution of information technologies to make available new resources and enable rationally usage the existing ones in the context of the ever-growing trends to use ever more resources. Authors from various countries have been invited to contribute so that a rather broad and balanced image about the current trends and recent results obtained could result. The proposed book addresses methodologies and information technology-based tools and systems designed for the efficient use of diverse resources such as manpower and human knowledge, natural resources including water, raw materials and end of life products, financial assets, datasets, and even cultural goods. The book is organized in ten chapters. It is intended to be insightful for researchers, instructors, and planers from various domains. It can also be used as an auxiliary material for postgraduate studies in applied informatics, business administration, industrial engineering, engineering and management, computer, and digital humanities.

This book presents a multidisciplinary approach to digital transformation process of organizational transformation, offering support throughout the implementation process to all those interested. The digital transformation (DT) is a priority for many companies in the context of technological evolution. The use of appropriate tools, methodologies, methods, approaches, and techniques for DT, depending on the organizational characteristics, can contribute to a complete approach to organizational processes and to their efficiency. Digital transformation involves the adoption and use of new digital technologies to develop new products and services, modify existing ones and develop new business models to increase efficiency, productivity, and competitiveness. Starting from marketing to culture and education to health, automotive, engineering, mobility and human resources and others, it is addressed to professionals, practitioners, researchers, students, and other interested parties.

The book offers aspects related to the health and process safety field, complex approaches to artificial intelligence, the role of accounting and auditing in the digital age, DT in agriculture, artificial intelligence in the maritime domain, education, management, sustainability and mobile technologies in learning. Digitization, digitalization and digital transformation (DT) are important for public organizations and private organizations.

Despite their importance, these steps are approached differently in organizations. Public organizations emphasize the importance of digital transformation, while public organizations make efforts to align themselves with citizens'' demands from a digitalization perspective. Incorporating technologies into organizational processes has become a priority for all industries to lead to important changes. All these activities are covered by the digital transformation that can lead to increased efficiency, agility, innovation and the unlocking of organizational values. Through this complex approach, the book contributes to the completion of knowledge in the field of digital transformation, develops and anticipates new research directions.

It is addressed to professionals, practitioners, researchers, students and other interested parties.