Data Modeling for Big Data Analytics

A special issue of Informatics (ISSN 2227-9709).

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, 47522 Cesena (FC), Italy
Interests: big data; big data analytics; NoSQL databases; data warehouse; design process; data mining; analytics; social business intelligence; opinion mining; preference queries; what-if analysis; precision farming; ontologies; machine learning; trajectory data analysis
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Interests: data warehouse design; business intelligence; big data

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Dear Colleagues,

Business intelligence (BI) applications are data-intensive; thus, data modeling is a key aspect to ensure their effectiveness and efficiency. At the conceptual level, data modeling provides a high level of abstraction in describing the structure and features of the information to be delivered in an implementation-independent way. At the logical and physical levels, it enables data structures to be specifically fine-tuned to achieve good performances on the target data model. Since the 1990s, data modeling for BI has mainly meant multidimensional modeling, which has been a key to access the benefits of OLAP [DM1] querying in data warehouses. Nowadays, the increase in analytics and big data technologies asks for a review and extension of the classical multidimensional paradigm and paves the way to new solutions tailored for the emerging user needs and for the specific technological features of big data platforms. In this context, we seek for original submissions that contribute novel approaches, solutions, methods, languages, and applications on the following topics:

  • Data modeling in the context of conceptual design of data warehouses, analytics, and business intelligence applications, in presence of big data sources
  • Data modeling in the context of logical design of data warehouses, analytics, and business intelligence applications, when the target platform is a big data one
  • Design methodologies related to the above mentioned data models
  • Techniques for efficiently querying and accessing the above mentioned data models
Prof. Matteo Golfarelli
Prof. Stefano Rizzi
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Keywords

  • Foundations and Concept Formalization
  • Domain-Specific Models and Methods
  • Methodologies and Tools
  • Quality and Metrics
  • Evolution
  • Metadata and Applications
  • Spatio-Temporal Aspects
  • Modeling of Stream and Sensor Data
  • Empirical Studies
  • NoSQL and NewSQL Databases
  • Big Data Analytics

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Domain-Specific Aspect-Sentiment Pair Extraction Using Rules and Compound Noun Lexicon for Customer Reviews
by Noor Rizvana Ahamed Kabeer, Keng Hoon Gan and Erum Haris
Informatics 2018, 5(4), 45; https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics5040045 - 29 Nov 2018
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Online reviews are an important source of opinion to measure products’ quality. Hence, automated opinion mining is used to extract important features (aspect) and related comments (sentiment). Extraction of correct aspect-sentiment pairs is critical for overall outcome of opinion mining; however, current works [...] Read more.
Online reviews are an important source of opinion to measure products’ quality. Hence, automated opinion mining is used to extract important features (aspect) and related comments (sentiment). Extraction of correct aspect-sentiment pairs is critical for overall outcome of opinion mining; however, current works still have limitations in terms of identifying special compound noun and parent-child relationship aspects in the extraction process. To address these problems, an aspect-sentiment pair extraction using the rules and compound noun lexicon (ASPERC) model is proposed. The model consists of three main phases, such as compound noun lexicon generation, aspect-sentiment pair rule generation, and aspect-sentiment pair extraction. The combined approach of rules generated from training sentences and domain specific compound noun lexicon enable extraction of more aspects by firstly identifying special compound noun and parent-child aspects, which eventually contribute to more aspect-sentiment pair extraction. The experiment is conducted with the SemEval 2014 dataset to compare proposed and baseline models. Both ASPERC and its variant, ASPER, result higher in recall (28.58% and 22.55% each) compared to baseline and satisfactorily extract more aspect sentiment pairs. Lastly, the reasonable outcome of ASPER indicates applicability of rules to various domains. Full article
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Modeling Analytical Streams for Social Business Intelligence
by Indira Lanza-Cruz, Rafael Berlanga and María José Aramburu
Informatics 2018, 5(3), 33; https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics5030033 - 1 Aug 2018
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Social Business Intelligence (SBI) enables companies to capture strategic information from public social networks. Contrary to traditional Business Intelligence (BI), SBI has to face the high dynamicity of both the social network’s contents and the company’s analytical requests, as well as the enormous [...] Read more.
Social Business Intelligence (SBI) enables companies to capture strategic information from public social networks. Contrary to traditional Business Intelligence (BI), SBI has to face the high dynamicity of both the social network’s contents and the company’s analytical requests, as well as the enormous amount of noisy data. Effective exploitation of these continuous sources of data requires efficient processing of the streamed data to be semantically shaped into insightful facts. In this paper, we propose a multidimensional formalism to represent and evaluate social indicators directly from fact streams derived in turn from social network data. This formalism relies on two main aspects: the semantic representation of facts via Linked Open Data and the support of OLAP-like multidimensional analysis models. Contrary to traditional BI formalisms, we start the process by modeling the required social indicators according to the strategic goals of the company. From these specifications, all the required fact streams are modeled and deployed to trace the indicators. The main advantages of this approach are the easy definition of on-demand social indicators, and the treatment of changing dimensions and metrics through streamed facts. We demonstrate its usefulness by introducing a real scenario user case in the automotive sector. Full article
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