It is my pleasure to introduce issue 37 number 3, a special issue on the theme “Business Intelligence and Big Data for Innovative and Sustainable Development of Organizations.” The special issue editors are Celina M. Olszak, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland and Jozef Zurada, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. The five articles are introduced by Celina and Jozef. I wish to thank them for their quality work in preparing this excellent special issue. I am happy to introduce them:
Celina M. Olszak, PhD, DSc, is a professor of Computer Science and Management Information Systems at the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland. She received MSc in Computer Science from Wroclaw University of Science and Technology and was awarded PhD and a title of professor in Management Information Systems from University of Economics in Katowice. She was a scholarship holder at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, German Academic Exchange Service at Trier University in Germany, and a fellowship at University of Technology, Sydney in Australia. She has authored 10 books and over 300 academic journal articles. Her research focuses on decision support systems, business intelligence, big data, artificial intelligence, and IT-based organizational creativity. Her works appeared in journals such as Information and Management, Information Systems Management, and Studies in Computational Intelligence. She is a member of Informing Science Institute in USA, the Pays du Groupe Vysegrad (PGV) Network, and the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Jozef Zurada, PhD, DSc, is a professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems, College of Business, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was a visiting scholar at the School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan, University, Perth, Australia; and the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. His research interests include applications of advanced computational intelligence and soft computing methods for assisting in decision making in business and manufacturing systems as well as streaming data analytics. He published about 100 refereed papers and delivered about 80 presentations. His works appeared in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Man, Systems, and Cybernetics; International Journal of Neural Systems; Expert Systems with Applications; Journal of Management Information Systems, and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
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We hope the articles within this special issue of ISM are interesting to you for your research and teaching activities. Again, thanks to Celina and Jozef for preparing this informative special issue.
