Srinath Srinivasa

Sameep Mehta

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Big Data Analytics, BDA 2014, held in New Delhi, India, in December 2014. The 11 revised full papers and 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions and cover topics on media analytics; geospatial big data; semantics and data models; search and retrieval; graphics and visualization; application-specific big data.

Third International Conference, BDA 2014, New Delhi, India, December 20-23, 2014. Proceedings

Big Data Analytics

Vasudha Bhatnagar

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Big Data Analytics, BDA 2013, held in Mysore, India, in December 2013. The 13 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions and cover topics on mining social media data, perspectives on big data analysis, graph analysis, big data in practice.

Second International Conference, BDA 2013, Mysore, India, December 16-18, 2013, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Big Data Analytics, BDA 2012, held in New Delhi, India, in December 2012. The 5 regular papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The volume also contains two tutorial papers in the section perspectives on big data analytics. The regular contributions are organized in topical sections on: data analytics applications; knowledge discovery through information extraction; and data models in analytics.

First International Conference, BDA 2012, New Delhi, India, December 24-26, 2012, Proceedings

We live in an era of unparalleled access to information and communication technologies. The Internet and other information tools like the television are becoming ever more central to our lives—we chat, blog, e-mail and e-shop, leaving behind our footprints in this version of public space. In addition, we are constantly bombarded with different kinds of information that seek to mould our thinking in subtle ways. The reader of this book will discover that social information networks possess qualities that are counter-intuitive. Social information networks form what are called frictionless, nonlinear systems. The behaviour of such systems can be extremely complex, making it hard to predict, let alone control. Despite this, there are some common features displayed by such systems, especially the ‘power law’ distribution. A power law distribution of societal influence, for example, would depict a society where a small percentage of society would wield enormous clout, while the larger part would have very little or no influence. Such a society would be highly polarized, with no room for the middle ground. The book investigates properties of frictionless, non-linear systems and the unconventional thought processes needed to comprehend them. It also shows how information affects us in a variety of ways: be it human rationality, the spread of ideas in society, or global monetary systems. Drawing upon current research, the author offers directions on how to model the new world taking shape and possibly to also steer it in the right direction.

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