From the 15th century onwards, when European mariners, explorers, and settlers started in situ observations and descriptions of tropical marine fauna, they were relying on their own eyes, mental preconceptions, as well as previously acquired knowledge. In fact, they had their own mindsets, belief systems, and understandings of the world to cope with. And the same happened with European naturali…
The contributions gathered in this open access book focus on modern methods for data science and classification and present a series of real-world applications. Numerous research topics are covered, ranging from statistical inference and modeling to clustering and dimension reduction, from functional data analysis to time series analysis, and network analysis. The applications reflect new analy…
In the fashion field, the reputation-related crises are the most common, where some-times economic-related crises can also be involved. As Sábada et al. [7: 10] assure: “Infashion, reputation is a business, an asset as long as it is good. This means that brandsthat have favorable reputation have more loyal customers that are more dedicated andthat buy a broader range of products”. In gener…