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Big Data Applications and Use Cases

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Editors:
  1. Patrick C. K. Hung

    1. Faculty of Business & IT, Univ of Ontario Inst of Tech, Oshawa, Canada

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  • Outlines different use cases for big data applications and technologies in supporting business intelligence, a cross discipline of computer science and business
  • Includes contributions from leading researchers and practitioners, providing readers with a theoretical and practical understanding of the challenges facing big data today and beyond
  • Surveys big data and dataset core concepts and principles
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction to Big Data

    • William Rafferty, Laura Rafferty, Patrick C. K. Hung
    Pages 1-15

  3. A Bloom Filter-Based Approach for Supporting the Representation and Membership Query of Multidimensional Dataset

    • Zhu Wang, Tiejian Luo
    Pages 17-31

  4. Automatic Speech and Singing Discrimination for Audio Data Indexing

    • Wei-Ho Tsai, Cin-Hao Ma
    Pages 33-47

  5. Exploring the Feature Selection-Based Data Analytics Solutions for Text Mining Online Communities by Investigating the Influential Factors: A Case Study of Programming CQA in Stack Overflow

    • Shu Zhou, Simon Fong
    Pages 49-93

  6. Temporal Event Tracing on Big Healthcare Data Analytics

    • Chin-Ho Lin, Liang-Cheng Huang, Seng-Cho T. Chou, Chih-Ho Liu, Han-Fang Cheng, I-Jen Chiang
    Pages 95-108

  7. Unstructured Data, NoSQL, and Terms Analytics

    • Richard K. Lomotey, Ralph Deters
    Pages 109-143

  8. VLAB-C: Collaborative Virtual Laboratory in Cloud Computing and Its Applications

    • Jianjun Yu, Kejun Dong, Yihua Zheng
    Pages 145-174

  9. Self-Adaptive Parameters Optimization for Incremental Classification in Big Data Using Neural Network

    • Simon Fong, Charlie Fang, Neal Tian, Raymond Wong, Bee Wah Yap
    Pages 175-196

  10. Case Studies of Government Use of Big Data in Latin America: Brazil and Mexico

    • Roberto da Mota Ueti, Daniela Fernandez Espinosa, Laura Rafferty, Patrick C. K. Hung
    Pages 197-214
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About this book

This book presents different use cases in big data applications and related practical experiences. Many businesses today are increasingly interested in utilizing big data technologies for supporting their business intelligence so that it is becoming more and more important to understand the various practical issues from different practical use cases. This book provides clear proof that big data technologies are playing an ever increasing important and critical role in a new cross-discipline research between computer science and business. 


Reviews

“This book would be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the data analytics field. It examines the characteristics of big data; the uses of big data, including government, marketing, insurance, the Internet of Things, and healthcare; and different analytic approaches. The book is reasonably well organized and provides examples of the application of data analysis to various public and private sector organizations. Sufficient references are provided.” (Computing Reviews, August, 2017) 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Business & IT, Univ of Ontario Inst of Tech, Oshawa, Canada

    Patrick C. K. Hung

About the editor

Patrick C. K. Hung is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business and Information Technology in University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada and an Honorary International Chair Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering in National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan. Patrick has worked with Boeing Research and Technology on aviation services-related research with two patents on mobile network dynamic workflow system. He is also a Visiting Professor at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. In addition, he was an Adjunct Professor at Wuhan University, a Visiting Professor at the Shizuoka University and University of Aizu in Japan, a Guest Professor in University of Innsbruck in Austria, University of Trento and University of Milan in Italy. Before that, he was a Research Scientist with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia as well as he worked as a software engineer in industry in North America. He is a founding committee member of the IEEE International Conference of Web Services (ICWS), IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), and IEEE BigData Congress (BigData Congress). He is also an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, and a Coordinating Editor of the Information Systems Frontiers.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Big Data Applications and Use Cases

  • Editors: Patrick C. K. Hung

  • Series Title: International Series on Computer, Entertainment and Media Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30146-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-30144-0Published: 25 May 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80731-7Published: 27 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-30146-4Published: 18 May 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2364-947X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-9488

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 214

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 62 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Database Management, IT in Business

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