Browsing by Author "Branda, Francesco"

Filter results by typing the first few letters
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Big Data Analysis: Methodologies, Frameworks and Real-World Applications
    (Università della Calabria, 2023-06-28) Branda, Francesco; Fortino, Giancarlo; Talia, Domenico
    Inthelastyears,thecapacitytoproduceandcollectdatahasincreasedexpo- nentially.Thehugeamountofdatagenerated,commonlyreferredtoasBigData, thespeedatwhichitisproduced,anditsheterogeneityintermsofformatrepresent a challengetocurrentstorage,processing,andanalysiscapabilities.Thisscenario requiresthedesignandimplementationofnewarchitecturesandanalyticalplatform solutionsthatmustprocessBigDatatoextractcomplexpredictiveanddescriptive models.Today,high-performancecomputing(HPC)infrastructuressuchashighly parallelclusters,supercomputers,andcloudscanbeusedforprocessingandanalyz- ingmassivesourcesofreal-worlddatainvariousfields,includinggenomicsequencing andmedicalresearch,frauddetection,andweatherforecasting.Followingthesepre- liminaryobservations,thegoalofthisthesisistwofold.First,themainchallengesto besolvedforimplementinginnovativedataanalysisapplicationsonHPCsystemsare investigated.Inparticular,themainkeyresearchtopicsaddressedinclude:(i)stud- iesofsoftwaresystemsforBigDatastoring,processing,andanalysis;(ii)methods, techniques,andprototypesdesignedandusedtoimplementBigDatasolutionson massivedatasourcesrequiringtheuseofhigh-performancecomputingsystems;and (iii)designandprogrammingissuesforBigDataanalysisinExascalesystems,which willrepresentthenextcomputingstep.Second,severalinnovativeapplicationsand usecasesofBigDataanalyticsthatcanbeimplementedinlarge-scaleparallelsys- temsareproposed.Theseresearchcontributionsprovidenewinsightsandsolutions forextractingusefulknowledgefromlargevolumesofdata,describingmethodsand mechanismstosupportusers,practitioners,andscientistsworkingintheareaofBig Datainthedesignandexecutionofdataanalysistechniquesindifferentapplication domains.