Big data: principles and paradigms

Recent advances in digital sensors, networks, storage, and computation, along with their low cost availability, is creating huge collections of data known as "Big Data." This has led to the emergence of a new computing paradigm that impacts society as a whole, changing the way business, science, academia, and governments work.

Big Data: Principles and Paradigms captures the state-of-the-art research on the architectural aspects, technologies, and applications of Big Data. The book identifies potential future directions and technologies that facilitate insight into numerous scientific, business, and consumer applications.

To help realize Big Data's full potential, Big Data: Principles and Paradigms addresses numerous challenges and offers the conceptual and technological solutions for tackling them. These challenges include life-cycle data management, large-scale storage, flexible processing infrastructure, data modeling, scalable machine learning, data analysis algorithms, sampling techniques, as well as the privacy and ethical issues.

• Covers computational platforms supporting Big Data applications
• Addresses key principles underlying Big Data computing
• Examines key developments supporting next generation Big Data platforms
• Explores the challenges in Big Data computing and ways they to overcome them
• Expert contributors from both academia and industry