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Application of Big Data Technology Based on Machine Learning

A Special Issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417) belonging to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2026 | Viewed by 991

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Interests: data compression; machine learning and AI; signal and image processing; data analytics
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Dear Colleagues,

The rapid growth of data across various sectors has led to unprecedented challenges and opportunities in data analysis and decision-making in this data-driven AI era. Big Data technologies, when integrated with the predictive and adaptive capabilities of Machine Learning (ML), offer powerful tools to extract meaningful insights from massive, complex, and high-dimensional datasets. These technologies have significantly impacted fields such as healthcare, finance, transportation, cybersecurity, and smart cities, among others.

Machine Learning enhances Big Data analytics by providing intelligent mechanisms to model non-linear patterns, perform real-time data processing, and improve the scalability of predictive systems. Conversely, Big Data infrastructures (such as Hadoop, Spark, and cloud computing platforms) enable ML algorithms to efficiently operate on large-scale datasets. This symbiotic relationship represents a transformative shift in how data is processed, interpreted, and utilized for decision support, innovation, and automation.

This Special Issue aims to highlight cutting-edge research, recent developments, and practical implementations at the intersection of Big Data and Machine Learning. It will allow researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to share advances, challenges, and future directions in this vibrant and rapidly evolving domain.

We welcome original research articles and reviews covering areas including (but not limited to) the following:

  1. Scalable Machine Learning algorithms for Big Data analytics;
  2. Real-time data processing and stream analytics;
  3. Applications in healthcare, finance, and smart cities;
  4. Cloud and edge computing for distributed Machine Learning;
  5. Security and privacy issues in Big Data and ML integration;
  6. Deep learning frameworks optimized for large-scale data;
  7. Data preprocessing, feature selection, and dimensionality reduction techniques;
  8. Visualization and interpretability of ML-driven Big Data insights.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. W. David Pan
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • big data
  • machine learning
  • deep learning
  • data analytics
  • scalable algorithms
  • cloud computing
  • data mining
  • real-time analytics

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Optimized and Privacy-Preserving MAX/MIN Protocols for Large-Scale Data
by Jeongsu Park
Appl. Sci. 2026, 16(5), 2580; https://doi.org/10.3390/app16052580 - 8 Mar 2026
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In the era of big data, data is key to the accuracy of analytical models, and cloud computing services are often used to efficiently process large volumes of data. However, outsourcing sensitive data to a third-party cloud service provider results in a loss [...] Read more.
In the era of big data, data is key to the accuracy of analytical models, and cloud computing services are often used to efficiently process large volumes of data. However, outsourcing sensitive data to a third-party cloud service provider results in a loss of direct control over the data, raising serious security concerns. The target of this study is to propose highly efficient and privacy-preserving protocols that compute the maximum/minimum value in large-scale data. To achieve the improvements in efficiency, the proposed protocols reuse the intermediate results generated in independent subprotocols. Existing privacy-preserving maximum/minimum protocols are based on approximation methods that sacrifice accuracy or reveal information during execution. They use costly comparison operations that are proportional to the size of the input data and are not suitable for large-scale data applications. In contrast, the proposed protocols theoretically reduce the number of communication rounds by 25%, the communication size by 50%, and the computational cost by 42% compared to the existing protocols. Nevertheless, the accuracy and privacy are fully maintained. In order to demonstrate these efficiency improvements concretely, we conducted experiments and demonstrated that the proposed protocols reduce the communication volume by half and the execution time by 22%. Because the proposed protocols support parallel execution, their performance can be substantially enhanced in cloud environments that provide large-scale parallel processing resources. Even data owners with restricted computational capabilities can use the protocols without exposing their information. Under the secure version, even cloud servers executing the protocol learn nothing about the input data or the computation results. Full article
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