Big-Data Analytics and Cloud Computing: Theory, Algorithms and Applications - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3319253115 ISBN 13: 9783319253114

Publisher: Springer, 2016

Synopsis

This book reviews the theoretical concepts, leading-edge techniques and practical tools involved in the latest multi-disciplinary approaches addressing the challenges of big data. Illuminating perspectives from both academia and industry are presented by an international selection of experts in big data science. Topics and features: describes the innovative advances in theoretical aspects of big data, predictive analytics and cloud-based architectures; examines the applications and implementations that utilize big data in cloud architectures; surveys the state of the art in architectural approaches to the provision of cloud-based big data analytics functions; identifies potential research directions and technologies to facilitate the realization of emerging business models through big data approaches; provides relevant theoretical frameworks, empirical research findings, and numerous case studies; discusses real-world applications of algorithms and techniques to address the challenges of big datasets.

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This important and timely text/reference reviews the theoretical concepts, leading-edge techniques and practical tools involved in the latest multi-disciplinary approaches addressing the challenges of big data. Illuminating perspectives from both academia and industry are presented by an international selection of experts in big data science.
Topics and features:

• Describes the innovative advances in theoretical aspects of big data, predictive analytics and cloud-based architectures
  
• Examines the applications and implementations that utilize big data in cloud architectures
  
• Surveys the state of the art in architectural approaches to the provision of cloud-based big data analytics functions
  
• Identifies potential research directions and technologies to facilitate the realization of emerging business models through big data approaches
  
• Provides relevant theoretical frameworks, empirical research findings, and numerous case studies
  
• Discusses real-world applications of algorithms and techniques to address the challenges of big datasets

This authoritative volume will be of great interest to researchers, enterprise architects, business analysts, IT infrastructure managers and application developers, who will benefit from the valuable insights offered into the adoption of architectures for big data and cloud computing. The work is also suitable as a textbook for university instructors, with the outline for a possible course structure suggested in the preface. 
The editors are all members of the Computing and Mathematics Department at the University of Derby, UK, where Dr. Marcello Trovati serves as a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Dr. Richard Hillas a Professor and Head of the Computing and Mathematics Department, Dr. Ashiq Anjum as a Professor of Distributed Computing, Dr. Shao Ying Zhu as a Senior Lecturer in Computing, and Dr. Lu Liu as a Professor of Distributed Computing. The other publications of the editors include the Springer titles Guide to Security Assurance for Cloud Computing, Guide to Cloud Computing and Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures.

About the Author

The editors are all members of the Computing and Mathematics Department at the University of Derby, UK, where Dr. Marcello Trovati serves as a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Dr. Richard Hill as a Professor and Head of the Computing and Mathematics Department, Dr. Ashiq Anjum as a Professor of Distributed Computing, Dr. Shao Ying Zhu as a Senior Lecturer in Computing, and Dr. Lu Liu as a Professor of Distributed Computing. The other publications of the editors include the Springer titles Guide to Security Assurance for Cloud Computing, Guide to Cloud Computing and Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 3319253115
• ISBN 13: 9783319253114
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 185
• Editor: Trovati Marcello, Hill Richard, Anjum Ashiq, Zhu Shao Ying, Liu Lu