IT Development, Big Data and Quantitative Management: Preface for ITQM 2014

Welcome to the Second International Conference on Information Technology and Quantitative Management (ITQM 2014). This year conference will take place at the National Research University Higher School of Econom-ics (HSE), Moscow, Russia. ITQM 2014 is organized by International Academy of Information Technology and Quantitative Management (IAITQM) and National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). The International Conference on Information Technology and Quantitative Management is a global forum for ex-changing research results and case studies that bridge the latest information technology and quantitative manage-ment techniques. It explores how the use of information technology to improve quantitative management techniques and how the development of management tools can reshape the development of information technology. ITQM 2014 covers all topics in the broad ranges of information technology and quantitative management includ-ing, but not limited to: x Multicriteria Analysis; x Soft Computing Methods in Quantitative Management and Decision Making; x Semantic Learning and Intelligent Awareness; x Optimization-based Data Mining, Decision Procedures in Data Analysis; x Supply Chain and Optimal Decisions in Logistics; x Optimal Decisions on Production of Oil and Gaz; x Optimal Decisions in Public Procurement; x Optimal Decisions on Transportation; x Big Data Analysis; x Information Technologies in Public Administration; x Social Networks and QM; x QM in Finance and Banking; x QM in Energy Economics and Electric Networks; x QM in Education and Developing Universities; x QM in Medicine;