Smart Technology Trends in Industrial and Business Management

Dagmar Cagáňová is an Associate Professor in Industrial Management at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Slovakia, where she acts as Vice-Dean for International Projects at the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava. She is also the co-founder of the European Alliance for Innovation in Slovakia, management committee member of E-COST (European Collaboration in Science and Technology) TN 1301 Sci Generation, the executive committee member in Danubius Academic Consortium (academic network for Integral Innovation), steering committee member of Danube strategy PA 7 Knowledge society-science, research, innovation and ICT for the Slovak Republic. Her professional interests and research topics are mainly focused on Human Resource Management, Intercultural, Knowledge and Innovation Management, Mobility and Smart Cities, Gender Diversity. She is the organizer of many domestic and international conferences, acts as tutor on PhD study programs and has participated in numerous domestic and international projects as team member and as the project head. To date she has published more than 200 publications, 31 in databases WOS and 36 in databases SCOPUS and has over 200 citations, 33 of them in quotation databases WOS and SCOPUS. Michal Balog is head of Department of Industrial Engineering and Informatics at Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with a seat in Prešov, TU Košice. His scientific and educational field is oriented on the green logistics, management, quality control and methods of production systems. He is the organizer of many domestic and international conferences, acts as tutor on PhD study programs and has participated in numerous slovak and international projects as team member and as the project head. Most important project is H2020 "Less Than Wagon Load", where he participated as a team member and in the year 2015 he finished project entitled "Promotion & Enhancement of Centre for Research on Transportation” with EU Structural Funds. He is author more than 100 publications in Slovakia and abroad. Lucia Knapčíková is Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Informatics at the Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies, TU Košice. In 2017 she completed her habilitation at the Faculty in the field "Manufacturing Technologies". Assoc. Prof. Dr. Knapčíková is the author of more than 120 scientific papers in Slovakia and abroad and 6 utility models. She participated in several international research projects, mainly in Germany. Most important project is H2020 in collaboration with Belgium, Germany, Netherland, Italy and Slovakia. She lectured at the universities in the Czech Republic and Croatia. Her area of interest includes utilization of secondary raw materials, technologies of their processing and testing. Jakub Soviar is an Associate Professor at the University of Žilina in Slovakia. He is part of the Faculty of management science and informatics in the field of management. He is also a member of the Institute of competitiveness and innovations of the University of Žilina. His research activities are focused on cooperation management, marketing management, sociology, social psychology and market research. He was a member of several Slovak, European Union and international research projects (e.g. Central Europe Research to Innovation Models, Central European Research and Development Area, H2020). He is author and co-author of more than 50 publications. Serkan Mezarcıöz is the R&D Section Manager responsible for the body and chassis construction of buses in Temsa Ulaşım Araçları San. Ve Tic. A.Ş. He graduated from the Çukurova University mechanical engineering department. Then, he completed his master and PhD. studies in the same department. He has been working in TEMSA R&D center as a R&D section manager since 2004.

Chapter1: Designing Behavioral Changes in Smart Cities using Interactive Smart Spaces.- Chapter2: Industry 4.0:  Preparation of Slovak Companies, the Comparative Study.- Chapter3: Transformations of urbanized landscape following the Smart Water Management concept.- Chapter4: Social Innovations in Context of Smart City.- Chapter5: Application of AHP Method in Decision-making Process.- Chapter6: Towards Creating Place Attachment and Social Communities in the SMART Cities.- Chapter7: A New Approach to Sustainable Reporting: Responsible Communication between Company and Stakeholders in Conditions of Slovak Food Industry.- Chapter8: An integrative spatial perspective on energy transition - renewable energy niches.- Chapter9: Can concept of smart governance help to mitigate the climate in the cities?.- Chapter10: Potential of Human Resources as Key Factor of Success of Innovation in Organisations.- Chapter11: Environmental Policy as a Competitive Advantage in the Global Environment.-Chapter12: Awareness of Malicious Behavior as a Part of Smart Transportation in Taxi Services.- Chapter13: Alternative lights for public transport in Smart Cities.- Chapter14: Green Markets and Their Role in the Sustainable Marketing Management.- Chapter15: Introduction to the International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2016).- Chapter16: Smart wristband system for improving quality of life for users in traffic environment.- Chapter17: Composites manufacturing: A new approaches to simulation.- Chapter18: Study of the cutting zone of the WPC composite materials after different types of cutting.- Chapter19: Quality assurance in the automotive industry and Industry 4.0.- Chapter20: RFID labels and its characteristics on labeled products.- Chapter21: Risk analysis causing downtimes in production process of hot rolling mill.- Chapter22: Evaluation of roughness parameters of machined surface of selected wood plastic composite.- Chapter23: Basic assumptions of information system for increasing competitiveness of production company within EU and their application at the CAPP system design.- Chapter24: Operational characteristics of experimental actuator with a drive based on the antagonistic  pneumatic artificial muscles.- Chapter25: IoT challenge: older test machines modernization in an automotive plant.- Chapter26: Critical values of some probability distributions and standard numerical methods.- Chapter27: Measuring production process complexity.- Chapter28: Evaluation of the transverse roughness of the outer and inner surfaces of the thin-walled components produced by milling.- Chapter29: Smart transportation applications and vehicle data processing system for smart city buses.- Chapter30: Current Trends in Industrial and Business Management in Smart Technology.- Chapter31: Sustainable Organization of Cooperation Activities in a Company - Slovak republic research perspective.- Chapter32: Cooperation as a key element between Universities and Factories.- Chapter33: Zilina Intelligent Manufacturing System - best practice of cooperation between university and research center.- Chapter34: Cooperative relations and activities in a cluster in the Slovak and Czech automotive industry.- Chapter35: Model Approach for Formation Synergy Effects in Automotive Industry with Support of Big Data Solutions - application for distribution and transport service strategy.- Chapter36: Improvement of the production system based on the Kanban principle.