About this book series

This series presents concise summaries of cutting-edge research and practical applications in the area of big data analysis, decision making and prediction. With “innovation” as a key word, the series aims for sharing new approaches and inspiring ideas of data analysis arising from different fields including social sciences, artificial intelligence, medical care, security, policymaking, urban planning, and more. The series aims to promote data sciences for new innovations such as the use of big data to find cutting-edge solutions for human society at large.

Featuring compact volumes of 50 to 125 pages (approximately 20,000-45,000 words), Briefs allow authors to present their ideas and readers to absorb them with minimal time investment.
Typical texts for publication might include:
  • A snapshot review of the current state of a hot or emerging field
  • A concise introduction to core concepts that students must understand in order to make independent contributions
  • An extended research report giving more details and discussion than is possible in a conventional journal article
  • A manual describing underlying principles and best practices for an experimental technique 

The standard concise author contracts guarantee that:

  • an  individual ISBN is assigned to each manuscript
  • each manuscript is copyrighted in the name of the author
  • the author retains the right to post the pre-publication version on his/her website or that of his/her institution

The publication of all volumes in SBDSI is to be done by a peer-reviewed process.

Electronic ISSN
2520-1921
Print ISSN
2520-1913
Editor-in-Chief
  • Osamu Sudoh

Book titles in this series