"This title presents recent research and future trends in the area of big data. ... It will be of value to students and researchers looking for research topics and to data scientists exploring ongoing work in the field of big data. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students; faculty and professionals." (C. Tappert, Choice, Vol. 54 (7), March, 2017)
Part I: Data Science Applications and Scenarios
An Interoperability Framework and Distributed Platform for Fast Data Applications José Carlos Martins Delgado
Complex Event Processing Framework for Big Data Applications Renta Chintala Bhargavi
Agglomerative Approaches for Partitioning of Networks in Big Data Scenarios Anupam Biswas, Gourav Arora, Gaurav Tiwari, Srijan Khare, Vyankatesh Agrawal and Bhaskar Biswas
Identifying Minimum-Sized Influential Vertices on Large-Scale Weighted Graphs: A Big Data Perspective Ying Xie, Jing (Selena) He and Vijay V. Raghavan
Part II: Big Data Modelling and Frameworks
A Unified Approach to Data Modelling and Management in Big Data Era Catalin Negru, Florin Pop, Mariana Mocanu and Valentin Cristea
Interfacing Physical and Cyber Worlds: A Big Data Perspective Zartasha Baloch, Faisal Karim Shaikh and Mukhtiar A. Unar
Distributed Platforms and Cloud Services: Enabling Machine Learning for Big Data Daniel Pop, Gabriel Iuhasz and Dana Petcu
An Analytics Driven Approach to Identify Duplicate Bug Records in Large Data Repositories Anjaneyulu Pasala, Sarbendu Guha, Gopichand Agnihotram, Satya Prateek B and Srinivas Padmanabhuni
Part III: Big Data Tools and Analytics
Large Scale Data Analytics Tools: Apache Hive, Pig and HBase N. Maheswari and M. Sivagami
Big Data Analytics: Enabling Technologies and Tools Mohanavadivu Periasamy and Pethuru Raj
A Framework for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Cloud Computing Derya Birant and Pelin Yıldırım
Feature Selection for Adaptive Decision Making in Big Data Analytics Jaya Sil and Asit Kumar Das
Social Impact and Social Media Analysis Relating to Big DataNirmala Dorasamy and Nataša Pomazalová
Professor Zaigham Mahmood is a Senior Technology Consultant at Debesis Education UK and Associate Lecturer (Research) at the University of Derby, UK. He also holds positions as Foreign Professor at NUST and IIU in Islamabad, Pakistan, and Professor Extraordinaire at the North West University Potchefstroom, South Africa. Prof. Mahmood is a certified cloud computing instructor and a regular speaker at international conferences devoted to Cloud Computing and E-Government. His specialized areas of research include distributed computing, project management, and e-government. Among his many publications are the Springer titles Cloud Computing: Challenges, Limitations and R&D Solutions, Continued Rise of the Cloud, Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches, Software Engineering Frameworks for the Cloud Computing Paradigm, and Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures.
This illuminating text/reference surveys the state of the art in data science, and provides practical guidance on big data analytics. Expert perspectives are provided by an authoritative collection of thirty-six researchers and practitioners from around the world, discussing research developments and emerging trends, presenting case studies on helpful frameworks and innovative methodologies, and suggesting best practices for efficient and effective data analytics.
Topics and features:
Reviews a framework for fast data applications, a technique for complex event processing, and a selection of agglomerative approaches for partitioning of networks
Discusses a big data approach to identifying minimum-sized influential vertices from large-scale weighted graphs
Introduces a unified approach to data modeling and management, and offers a distributed computing perspective on interfacing physical and cyber worlds
Presents techniques for machine learning in the context of big data, and describes an analytics-driven approach to identifying duplicate records in large data repositories
Examines various enabling technologies and tools for data mining, including Apache Hadoop
Proposes a novel framework for data extraction and knowledge discovery, and provides case studies on adaptive decision making and social media analysis
This comprehensive volume is a valuable reference for researchers, lecturers and students interested in data science and big data, in addition to professionals seeking to adopt the latest approaches in data analytics to gain business intelligence for strategic decision-making.