Enhancing Quality of Sustainability Reporting by Using Big Data Analytics: A Conceptual Framework Based on Stakeholder Engagement

2022 ◽  
pp. 399-409
Author(s):  
Mohamed Abdelmounem Serag
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Sustainability Reporting

scholarly journals SMOTE-BD: An Exact and Scalable Oversampling Method for Imbalanced Classification in Big Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (03) ◽  
pp. e23 ◽  
Author(s):  
María José Basgall ◽  
Waldo Hasperué ◽  
Marcelo Naiouf ◽  
Alberto Fernández ◽  
Francisco Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Model Design ◽  
Minority Class ◽  
Imbalanced Classification ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Learning Issues ◽  
Intelligent Model

The volume of data in today's applications has meant a change in the way Machine Learning issues are addressed. Indeed, the Big Data scenario involves scalability constraints that can only be achieved through intelligent model design and the use of distributed technologies. In this context, solutions based on the Spark platform have established themselves as a de facto standard. In this contribution, we focus on a very important framework within Big Data Analytics, namely classification with imbalanced datasets. The main characteristic of this problem is that one of the classes is underrepresented, and therefore it is usually more complex to find a model that identifies it correctly. For this reason, it is common to apply preprocessing techniques such as oversampling to balance the distribution of examples in classes. In this work we present SMOTE-BD, a fully scalable preprocessing approach for imbalanced classification in Big Data. It is based on one of the most widespread preprocessing solutions for imbalanced classification, namely the SMOTE algorithm, which creates new synthetic instances according to the neighborhood of each example of the minority class. Our novel development is made to be independent of the number of partitions or processes created to achieve a higher degree of efficiency. Experiments conducted on different standard and Big Data datasets show the quality of the proposed design and implementation.

Using Big Data Analytics to Assist a Smart City to Prevent Cyber Security Threats

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-124
Author(s):  
Fenio Annansingh
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Smart Services ◽  
Prevention Model

The concept of a smart city as a means to enhance the life quality of citizens has been gaining increasing importance in recent years globally. A smart city consists of city infrastructure, which includes smart services, devices, and institutions. Every second, these components of the smart city infrastructure are generating data. The vast amount of data is called big data. This chapter explores the possibilities of using big data analytics to prevent cybersecurity threats in a smart city. It also analyzed how big data tools and concepts can solve cybersecurity challenges and detect and prevent attacks. Using interviews and an extensive review of the literature have developed the data analytics and cyber prevention model. The chapter concludes by indicating that big data analytics allow a smart city to identify and solve cybersecurity challenges quickly and efficiently.

IoT Based Agriculture as a Cloud and Big Data Service

2020 ◽  
pp. 1499-1521
Author(s):  
Sukhpal Singh Gill ◽  
Inderveer Chana ◽  
Rajkumar Buyya
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Cloud Environment ◽  
Big Data Technologies ◽  
Sensor Networking ◽  
New Applications

Cloud computing has transpired as a new model for managing and delivering applications as services efficiently. Convergence of cloud computing with technologies such as wireless sensor networking, Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data analytics offers new applications' of cloud services. This paper proposes a cloud-based autonomic information system for delivering Agriculture-as-a-Service (AaaS) through the use of cloud and big data technologies. The proposed system gathers information from various users through preconfigured devices and IoT sensors and processes it in cloud using big data analytics and provides the required information to users automatically. The performance of the proposed system has been evaluated in Cloud environment and experimental results show that the proposed system offers better service and the Quality of Service (QoS) is also better in terms of QoS parameters.

scholarly journals CF4BDA: A Conceptual Framework for Big Data Analytics Applications in the Cloud

IEEE Access ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1944-1952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qinghua Lu ◽  
Zheng Li ◽  
Maria Kihl ◽  
Liming Zhu ◽  
Weishan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Big Data Analytics

scholarly journals Urban Planning and Smart City Decision Management Empowered by Real-Time Data Processing Using Big Data Analytics

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 2994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhagya Silva ◽  
Murad Khan ◽  
Changsu Jung ◽  
Jihun Seo ◽  
Diyan Muhammad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Real Time Data

The Internet of Things (IoT), inspired by the tremendous growth of connected heterogeneous devices, has pioneered the notion of smart city. Various components, i.e., smart transportation, smart community, smart healthcare, smart grid, etc. which are integrated within smart city architecture aims to enrich the quality of life (QoL) of urban citizens. However, real-time processing requirements and exponential data growth withhold smart city realization. Therefore, herein we propose a Big Data analytics (BDA)-embedded experimental architecture for smart cities. Two major aspects are served by the BDA-embedded smart city. Firstly, it facilitates exploitation of urban Big Data (UBD) in planning, designing, and maintaining smart cities. Secondly, it occupies BDA to manage and process voluminous UBD to enhance the quality of urban services. Three tiers of the proposed architecture are liable for data aggregation, real-time data management, and service provisioning. Moreover, offline and online data processing tasks are further expedited by integrating data normalizing and data filtering techniques to the proposed work. By analyzing authenticated datasets, we obtained the threshold values required for urban planning and city operation management. Performance metrics in terms of online and offline data processing for the proposed dual-node Hadoop cluster is obtained using aforementioned authentic datasets. Throughput and processing time analysis performed with regard to existing works guarantee the performance superiority of the proposed work. Hence, we can claim the applicability and reliability of implementing proposed BDA-embedded smart city architecture in the real world.

Towards a Better and Smarter Healthcare and IoT

2019 ◽  
pp. 191-228
Author(s):  
Navin Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Healthcare Data ◽  
Value Based Care ◽  
Rich Data

The amount of healthcare data continues to exponentially grow everyday. The complexity of this data further limits the analytical capabilities of traditional healthcare systems. With value-based care, it is far more imminent for healthcare organizations to control the costs and to improve the quality of care in order to sustain their business. The purpose of the chapter is to gain insights into complexities and challenges that exist in current healthcare systems and how big data analytics and IoT can play a pivotal role to positively influence the quality of care and patient outcomes. The chapter also provides solutions and strategies for building cloud-based data asset that can deliver rich data analytics to both the healthcare systems and the patients.

Leveraging Applications of Data Mining in Healthcare Using Big Data Analytics

2017 ◽  
pp. 345-359
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hossein Tekieh ◽  
Bijan Raahemi ◽  
Eric I. Benchimol
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Distributed Algorithms ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Tree Structure ◽  
Massive Data ◽  
Potential Applications

Big data analytics has been introduced as a set of scalable, distributed algorithms optimized for analysis of massive data in parallel. There are many prospective applications of data mining in healthcare. In this chapter, the authors investigate whether health data exhibits characteristics of big data, and accordingly, whether big data analytics can leverage the data mining applications in healthcare. To answer this interesting question, potential applications are divided into four categories, and each category into sub-categories in a tree structure. The available types of health data are specified, with a discussion of the applicable dimensions of big data for each sub-category. The authors conclude that big data analytics can provide more advantages for the quality of analysis in particular categories of applications of data mining in healthcare, while having less efficacy for other categories.

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