Performance Modeling of Big Data Oriented Architectures Marco Gribaudo, Mauro Iacono, and Francesco Palmieri
Workflow Scheduling Techniques for Big Data Platforms Mihaela-Catalina Nita, Mihaela Vasile, Florin Pop, and Valentin Cristea
Cloud Technologies: A New Level for Big Data Mining Viktor Medvedev and Olga Kurasova
Agent Based High-Level Interaction Patterns for Modeling Individual and Collective Optimizations Problems Rocco Aversa and Luca Tasquier
Maximize Profit for Big Data Processing in Distributed Datacenters Weidong Bao, Ji Wang, and Xiaomin Zhu
Energy and Power Efficiency in the Cloud Michał Karpowicz, Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz, Piotr Arabas, and Andrzej Sikora
Context Aware and Reinforcement Learning Based Load Balancing System for Green Clouds Ionut Anghel, Tudor Cioara, and Ioan Salomie
High-Performance Storage Support for Scientific Big Data Applications on the Cloud Dongfang Zhao, Akash Mahakode, Sandip Lakshminarasaiah, and Ioan Raicu
Information Fusion for Improving Decision-Making in Big Data Applications Nayat Sanchez-Pi, Luis Martí, José Manuel Molina, and Ana C. Bicharra Garca
Load Balancing and Fault Tolerance Mechanisms for Scalable and Reliable Big Data Analytics Nitin Sukhija, Alessandro Morari, and Ioana Banicescu<
Fault Tolerance in MapReduce: A Survey Bunjamin Memishi, Shadi Ibrahim, María S. Pérez, and Gabriel Antoniu
Big Data Security Agnieszka Jakóbik
Big Biological Data Management Edvard Pedersen and Lars Ailo Bongo
Optimal Worksharing of DNA Sequence Analysis on Accelerated Platforms Suejb Memeti, Sabri Pllana, and Joanna Kołodziej
Feature Dimensionality Reduction for Mammographic Report Classification Agnello Luca, Comelli Albert, and Vitabile Salvatore
Parallel Algorithms for Multi-Relational Data Mining: Application to Life Science Problems Rui Camacho, Jorge G. Barbosa, Altino Sampaio, João Ladeiras, Nuno A. Fonseca and Vítor S. Costa
Parallelization of Sparse Matrix Kernels for Big Data Applications Oguz Selvitopi, Kadir Akbudak, and Cevdet Aykanat
Delivering Social Multimedia Content with Scalability Irene Kilanioti and George A. Papadopoulos
A Java-Based Distributed Approach for Generating Large-Scale Social Network Graphs Vlad Serbanescu, Keyvan Azadbakht, and Frank de Boer
Predicting Video Virality on Twitter Irene Kilanioti and George A. Papadopoulos
Big Data uses in Crowd Based Systems Cristian Chilipirea, Andreea-Cristina Petre, and Ciprian Dobre
Evaluation of a Web Crowd–Sensing IoT Ecosystem Providing Big Data Analysis Ioannis Vakintis, Spyros Panagiotakis, George Mastorakis, and Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis
A Smart City Fighting Pollution by Efficiently Managing and Processing Big Data from Sensor Networks Voichiţa Iancu, Silvia Cristina Stegaru, and Dan Ştefan Tudose
Dr. Florin Pop is an Associate Professor in the Distributed Systems Laboratory of the Computer Science Department at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania.
Dr. Joanna Kołodziej is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cracow University of Technology, Poland. Amongst her recent publications are the Springer titles Intelligent Agents in Data-intensive Computing and Evolutionary Based Solutions for Green Computing.
Dr. Beniamino Di Martino is a full Professor of Information Systems at the Second University of Naples, Italy. His publications include the Springer titles Cloud Portability and Interoperability and Smart Organizations and Smart Artifacts.
This book constitutes a flagship driver towards presenting and supporting advance research in the area of Big Data platforms and applications. Extracting valuable information from raw data is especially difficult considering the velocity of growing data from year to year and the fact that 80% of data is unstructured. In addition, data sources are heterogeneous (various sensors, users with different profiles, etc.) and are located in different situations or contexts. Successful contributions may range from advanced technologies, applications and innovative solutions to global optimization problems in scalable large-scale computing systems to development of methods, conceptual and theoretical models related to Big Data applications and massive data storage and processing. The book provides, in this sense, a platform for the dissemination of advanced topics of theory, research efforts and analysis and implementation for Big Data platforms and applications being oriented on methods, techniques and performance evaluation.
This book presents new ideas, analysis, implementations and evaluation of next-generation Big Data platforms and applications. In 23 chapters, several important formulations of the architecture design, optimization techniques, advanced analytics methods, biological, medical and social media applications are presented. These subjects represent the main objectives of ICT COST Action IC1406 High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications (cHiPSet) and the research presented in these chapters was performed by joint collaboration of members from this action. This volume will serve as a reference for students, researchers and industry practitioners working in or interested in joining interdisciplinary works in the areas of intelligent decision systems using emergent distributed computing paradigms. It will also allow newcomers to grasp the key concerns and potential solutions for the selected topics.