Application of Big Data Mining and Analysis

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2025 | Viewed by 1130

Special Issue Editors


E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong 999077, China
Interests: social media analytics; hypergraph learning
Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 100872, China
Interests: dynamic graph neural networks; spatiotemporal data analysis; urban computing; learning analytics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, entitled “Application of Big Data Mining and Analysis”, by the journal Electronics, aims to showcase cutting-edge research and innovations in the field of big data analytics. It will serve as a pivotal platform for researchers and practitioners to explore the vast potential of big data technologies in various domains such as online social networks, social computing, healthcare, finance, telecommunications, and more. The focus will be on novel methodologies, data processing techniques, and the practical implications of data mining and analysis to address complex problems and enhance decision-making processes.

We welcome contributions that cover advanced algorithms, machine learning models, and system optimizations that improve the efficiency and accuracy of big data analysis. This Special Issue will also consider papers that discuss the ethical, privacy, and security challenges associated with big data practices. By bringing together a diverse range of studies, this Special Issue aims to foster a deeper understanding of how big data can be effectively exploited to drive innovation and transform data into actionable insights.

Through a rigorous peer-review process, this Special Issue seeks to publish high-quality, original research articles, comprehensive reviews, and case studies that push the boundaries of knowledge in big data applications. It will also provide a forum for discussing future research directions and the evolving landscape of big data technologies.

Dr. Xiangguo Sun
Dr. Yu Yang
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Electronics is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • big data analytics
  • data mining techniques
  • machine learning algorithms
  • data privacy and ethics
  • system optimization
  • decision support systems
  • scalable computing frameworks
  • data security
  • real-time data processing
  • cross-domain applications

Benefits of Publishing in a Special Issue

  • Ease of navigation: Grouping papers by topic helps scholars navigate broad scope journals more efficiently.
  • Greater discoverability: Special Issues support the reach and impact of scientific research. Articles in Special Issues are more discoverable and cited more frequently.
  • Expansion of research network: Special Issues facilitate connections among authors, fostering scientific collaborations.
  • External promotion: Articles in Special Issues are often promoted through the journal's social media, increasing their visibility.
  • e-Book format: Special Issues with more than 10 articles can be published as dedicated e-books, ensuring wide and rapid dissemination.

Further information on MDPI's Special Issue policies can be found here.

Published Papers (1 paper)

Order results
Result details
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:

Research

25 pages, 43361 KiB  
Article
DFFNet: A Rainfall Nowcasting Model Based on Dual-Branch Feature Fusion
by Shuxian Liu, Yulong Liu, Jiong Zheng, Yuanyuan Liao, Guohong Zheng and Yongjun Zhang
Electronics 2024, 13(14), 2826; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13142826 - 18 Jul 2024
Cited by 1 | Viewed by 781
Abstract
Timely and accurate rainfall prediction is crucial to social life and economic activities. Because of the influence of numerous factors on rainfall, making precise predictions is challenging. In this study, the northern Xinjiang region of China is selected as the research area. Based [...] Read more.
Timely and accurate rainfall prediction is crucial to social life and economic activities. Because of the influence of numerous factors on rainfall, making precise predictions is challenging. In this study, the northern Xinjiang region of China is selected as the research area. Based on the pattern of rainfall in the local area and the needs of real life, rainfall is divided into four levels, namely ‘no rain’, ‘light rain’, ‘moderate rain’, and ‘heavy rain and above’, for rainfall levels nowcasting. To solve the problem that the existing model can only extract a single time dependence and cause the loss of some valuable information in rainfall data, a prediction model named DFFNet, which is based on dual-branch feature fusion, is proposed in this paper. The two branches of the model are composed of Transformer and CNN, which are used to extract time dependence and feature interaction in meteorological data, respectively. The features extracted from the two branches are fused for prediction. To verify the performance of DFFNet, the India public rainfall dataset and some sub-datasets in the UEA dataset are chosen for comparison. Compared with the baseline models, DFFNet achieves the best prediction performance on all the selected datasets; compared with the single-branch model, the training time consumption of DFFNet on the two rainfall datasets is reduced by 21% and 9.6%, respectively, and it has a faster convergence speed. The experimental results show that it has certain theoretical value and application value for the study of rainfall nowcasting. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Big Data Mining and Analysis)
Show Figures

Figure 1

Back to TopTop