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  • Open Access
11 Citations
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30 Pages

7 August 2020

In the past few decades, we have witnessed tremendous advancements in biology, life sciences and healthcare. These advancements are due in no small part to the big data made available by various high-throughput technologies, the ever-advancing comput...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data in Biology, Life Sciences and Healthcare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,193 Views
27 Pages

15 August 2024

The integration of the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, and machine learning (ML) has pioneered a transformation across several fields. Equipping electrical engineering students to remain abreast of the dynamic technological landscape is vital. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Learning Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
632 Views
24 Pages

15 May 2026

This study explores the use of prompt engineering for big data analysis with large language models (LLMs) in the context of smart maintenance within Industry 4.0 environments. Industrial systems generate large volumes of heterogeneous data, which are...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big-Data-Driven Advances in Smart Maintenance and Industry 4.0)
  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
15,061 Views
19 Pages

25 November 2023

The high volume of information produced by project management and its quality have become a challenge for organizations. Due to this, emerging technologies such as big data, data science and artificial intelligence (ETs) have become an alternative in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Optimization Methods in Construction Industry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
14,948 Views
33 Pages

17 September 2021

Plant projects, referred to as Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC), generate massive amounts of data throughout their life cycle, from the planning stages to the operation and maintenance (OM) stages. Many EPC contractors struggle with the...

(This article belongs to the Collection Digitalization and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
17,602 Views
22 Pages

Big Data Analytics for Search Engine Optimization

  • Ioannis C. Drivas,
  • Damianos P. Sakas,
  • Georgios A. Giannakopoulos and
  • Daphne Kyriaki-Manessi

In the Big Data era, search engine optimization deals with the encapsulation of datasets that are related to website performance in terms of architecture, content curation, and user behavior, with the purpose to convert them into actionable insights...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data Analytics for Cultural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
8,638 Views
20 Pages

Clustering is one of the most significant applications in the big data field. However, using the clustering technique with big data requires an ample amount of processing power and resources due to the complexity and resulting increment in the cluste...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Technological Advancements and Applications of Deep Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,753 Views
17 Pages

11 December 2018

The emergence of big data and data science has caused the human and social sciences to reconsider their aims, theories, and methods. New forms of inquiry into culture have arisen, reshaping quantitative methodologies, the ties between theory and empi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,033 Views
14 Pages

21 January 2022

Timely and accurate forecasts of dengue cases are of great importance for guiding disease prevention strategies, but still face challenges from (1) time-effectiveness due to time-consuming satellite data downloading and processing, (2) weak spatial r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impact of Climate Change on Ecosystems and Human Health)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1,033 Views
4 Pages

This volume represents the proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Computation, Big-Data and Engineering (IEEE ICCBE 2025) [...]

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Computation, Big-Data and Engineering (ICCBE))
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,784 Views
24 Pages

Engineering Supply Chain Transportation Indexes through Big Data Analytics and Deep Learning

  • Damianos P. Sakas,
  • Nikolaos T. Giannakopoulos,
  • Marina C. Terzi and
  • Nikos Kanellos

4 September 2023

Deep learning has experienced an increased demand for its capabilities to categorize and optimize operations and provide higher-accuracy information. For this purpose, the implication of deep learning procedures has been described as a vital tool for...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Conference Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,850 Views
12 Pages

On 27 March 2021, the 2021 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things Engineering (ICBAIE 2021) was officially held in Nanchang, China. The Conference invited the IEEE Fellow Professor Guo Yong-xin f...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Stand Alone Papers 2021)
  • Review
  • Open Access
78 Citations
19,428 Views
32 Pages

3 July 2024

The explosion of data volume in the digital age has completely changed the corporate and industrial environments. In-depth analysis of large datasets to support strategic decision-making and innovation is the main focus of this paper’s explorat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Eng 2024)
  • Review
  • Open Access
78 Citations
27,146 Views
27 Pages

Big Data in Construction: Current Applications and Future Opportunities

  • Hafiz Suliman Munawar,
  • Fahim Ullah,
  • Siddra Qayyum and
  • Danish Shahzad

Big data have become an integral part of various research fields due to the rapid advancements in the digital technologies available for dealing with data. The construction industry is no exception and has seen a spike in the data being generated due...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Review Papers in Big Data, Cloud-Based Data Analysis and Learning Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
293 Citations
26,833 Views
25 Pages

An Overview of Platforms for Big Earth Observation Data Management and Analysis

  • Vitor C. F. Gomes,
  • Gilberto R. Queiroz and
  • Karine R. Ferreira

16 April 2020

In recent years, Earth observation (EO) satellites have generated big amounts of geospatial data that are freely available for society and researchers. This scenario brings challenges for traditional spatial data infrastructures (SDI) to properly sto...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,680 Views
23 Pages

To acquire competitive differentiation nowadays, logistics businesses must adopt novel strategies. Logistics companies have to consider whether redesigning their marketing plan based on client social media activity and website activity might increase...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,884 Views
20 Pages

Re-Engineering of Marketing for SMEs in Energy Market through Modeling Customers’ Strategic Behavior

  • Despina S. Giakomidou,
  • Athanasios Kriemadis,
  • Dimitrios K. Nasiopoulos and
  • Dimitrios Mastrakoulis

2 November 2022

In recent years, the energy market has seen an increase in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) participating in the sector and providing relevant services to customers. The energy sector SMEs need to acknowledge whether reengineering their marketing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data and Advanced Analytics in Energy Systems and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,558 Views
15 Pages

Traffic Planning as a Preliminary Tool in Project Documentation for BIM

  • Tibor Schlosser,
  • Peter Schlosser,
  • Andrea Zuzulová,
  • Silvia Cápayová and
  • Gabriel Bálint

The paper presents a view on the possibilities of using big data in traffic planning and traffic engineering, which are used in the urban and spatial planning of cities. The question is whether the method of this design activity—especially in f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application Research of GIS and BIM Integration in Urban Building Planning)
  • Review
  • Open Access
94 Citations
22,585 Views
33 Pages

Big Data and AI-Driven Product Design: A Survey

  • Huafeng Quan,
  • Shaobo Li,
  • Changchang Zeng,
  • Hongjing Wei and
  • Jianjun Hu

20 August 2023

As living standards improve, modern products need to meet increasingly diversified and personalized user requirements. Traditional product design methods fall short due to their strong subjectivity, limited survey scope, lack of real-time data, and p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Digital Technology Assisted Industrial Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,460 Views
24 Pages

Green Cloud Software Engineering for Big Data Processing

  • Madhubala Ganesan,
  • Ah-Lian Kor,
  • Colin Pattinson and
  • Eric Rondeau

7 November 2020

Internet of Things (IoT) coupled with big data analytics is emerging as the core of smart and sustainable systems which bolsters economic, environmental and social sustainability. Cloud-based data centers provide high performance computing power to a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Information Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,896 Views
29 Pages

Digital Telecommunications in Medicine and Biomedical Engineering: Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions

  • Nikolaos Karkanis,
  • Andreas Giannakoulas,
  • Kyriakos E. Zoiros,
  • Theodoros N. F. Kaifas and
  • Georgios A. A. Kyriacou

1 January 2026

Digital telecommunications have become the backbone of modern healthcare, transforming how patients and professionals interact, share information, and deliver treatment. The integration of telecommunications with medicine, biomedical engineering and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,505 Views
21 Pages

29 August 2020

Points of interest (POIs)—areas with a concentration of places that attract people—are important urban planning and tourism policy targets. This study aims to determine the points of interest of urban residents by analyzing big data from...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Web 2.0 in Tourism and Hospitality Industries)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,180 Views
7 Pages

Exploring the Impact of Digital Farming on Agricultural Engineering Practices

  • Aamir Raza,
  • Muhammad Adnan Shahid,
  • Muhammad Safdar,
  • Muhammad Abdur Rehman Tariq,
  • Muhammad Zaman and
  • Mehmood Ul Hassan

Digital farming has revolutionized agriculture by integrating technologies like IoT, AI, big data analytics, and remote sensing. This paper explores the impact of digital farming on agricultural engineering practices, highlighting the changes it has...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Agronomy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,576 Views
21 Pages

A Data Storage, Analysis, and Project Administration Engine (TMFdw) for Small- to Medium-Size Interdisciplinary Ecological Research Programs with Full Raster Data Capabilities

  • Paulina Grigusova,
  • Christian Beilschmidt,
  • Maik Dobbermann,
  • Johannes Drönner,
  • Michael Mattig,
  • Pablo Sanchez,
  • Nina Farwig and
  • Jörg Bendix

6 December 2024

Over almost 20 years, a data storage, analysis, and project administration engine (TMFdw) has been continuously developed in a series of several consecutive interdisciplinary research projects on functional biodiversity of the southern Andes of Ecuad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,312 Views
15 Pages

6 June 2022

The implementation of railway intelligent construction is the need of national strategic development and the demand of society. Based on the idea of system engineering, this paper proposes a three-dimensional railway intelligent construction system a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Achieving Sustainability in Civil and Construction Engineering through Emerging Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
95 Citations
15,393 Views
18 Pages

12 August 2017

In recent years, mobile phones and access points to free Wi-Fi services have been enhanced, which has made it easier for travellers to share their stories, pictures, and video clips online during a trip. At the same time, online travel review (OTR) w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mobile Technology and Smart Tourism Development)
  • Review
  • Open Access
178 Citations
18,699 Views
22 Pages

Toward Digitalization of Maritime Transport?

  • Pedro-Luis Sanchez-Gonzalez,
  • David Díaz-Gutiérrez,
  • Teresa J. Leo and
  • Luis R. Núñez-Rivas

22 February 2019

Although maritime transport is the backbone of world commerce, its digitalization lags significantly behind when we consider some basic facts. This work verifies the state-of-the-art as it currently applies to eight digital domains: Autonomous vehicl...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,568 Views
16 Pages

Efficient and accurate dengue risk prediction is an important basis for dengue prevention and control, which faces challenges, such as downloading and processing multi-source data to generate risk predictors and consuming significant time and computa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
134 Citations
13,627 Views
17 Pages

SOPHIA: An Event-Based IoT and Machine Learning Architecture for Predictive Maintenance in Industry 4.0

  • Matteo Calabrese,
  • Martin Cimmino,
  • Francesca Fiume,
  • Martina Manfrin,
  • Luca Romeo,
  • Silvia Ceccacci,
  • Marina Paolanti,
  • Giuseppe Toscano,
  • Giovanni Ciandrini and
  • Dimos Kapetis
  • + 3 authors

9 April 2020

Predictive Maintenance (PdM) is a prominent strategy comprising all the operational techniques and actions required to ensure machine availability and to prevent a machine-down failure. One of the main challenges of PdM is to design and develop an em...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
133 Citations
12,374 Views
24 Pages

24 December 2019

Mapping Earth’s surface and its rapid changes with remotely sensed data is a crucial task to understand the impact of an increasingly urban world population on the environment. However, the impressive amount of available Earth observation data...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Google Earth Engine and Cloud Computing Platforms: Methods and Applications in Big Geo Data Science)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,840 Views
5 Pages

Big Data analysis is one of the most contemporary areas of development and research in the present day [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Science and Big Data in Biology, Physical Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
8,007 Views
27 Pages

Lean Based Maturity Framework Integrating Value, BIM and Big Data Analytics: Evidence from AEC Industry

  • Gökhan Demirdöğen,
  • Nihan Sena Diren,
  • Hande Aladağ and
  • Zeynep Işık

7 September 2021

The construction industry is considered as one of the least productive, highest energy consuming, and least digitized industries. The Lean Management (LM) philosophy became a significant way for eliminating non-value-added activities and wastes durin...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,774 Views
15 Pages

26 November 2022

The key to improving the readability and usage of educational resources is their orderly arrangement and integration. Knowledge graphs, which are a large-scale form of knowledge engineering, are an effective tool for managing and organizing education...

  • Article
  • Open Access
120 Citations
17,514 Views
21 Pages

Monitoring the Impact of Land Cover Change on Surface Urban Heat Island through Google Earth Engine: Proposal of a Global Methodology, First Applications and Problems

  • Roberta Ravanelli,
  • Andrea Nascetti,
  • Raffaella Valeria Cirigliano,
  • Clarissa Di Rico,
  • Giovanni Leuzzi,
  • Paolo Monti and
  • Mattia Crespi

18 September 2018

All over the world, the rapid urbanization process is challenging the sustainable development of our cities. In 2015, the United Nation highlighted in Goal 11 of the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) the importance to “Make cities inclusive,...

(This article belongs to the Collection Google Earth Engine Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,392 Views
21 Pages

SLA-Based Adaptation Schemes in Distributed Stream Processing Engines

  • Muhammad Hanif,
  • Eunsam Kim,
  • Sumi Helal and
  • Choonhwa Lee

13 March 2019

With the upswing in the volume of data, information online, and magnanimous cloud applications, big data analytics becomes mainstream in the research communities in the industry as well as in the scholarly world. This prompted the emergence and devel...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
306 Citations
25,582 Views
27 Pages

28 December 2018

Wetlands are one of the most important ecosystems that provide a desirable habitat for a great variety of flora and fauna. Wetland mapping and modeling using Earth Observation (EO) data are essential for natural resource management at both regional a...

(This article belongs to the Collection Google Earth Engine Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
18,075 Views
18 Pages

Application of Google Earth Engine Cloud Computing Platform, Sentinel Imagery, and Neural Networks for Crop Mapping in Canada

  • Meisam Amani,
  • Mohammad Kakooei,
  • Armin Moghimi,
  • Arsalan Ghorbanian,
  • Babak Ranjgar,
  • Sahel Mahdavi,
  • Andrew Davidson,
  • Thierry Fisette,
  • Patrick Rollin and
  • Ali Mohammadzadeh
  • + 1 author

30 October 2020

The ability of the Canadian agriculture sector to make better decisions and manage its operations more competitively in the long term is only as good as the information available to inform decision-making. At all levels of Government, a reliable flow...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Google Earth Engine: Cloud-Based Platform for Earth Observation Data and Analysis)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
840 Views
30 Pages

Google Earth Engine Since 2022: A Structured Bibliometric Review of GeoAI-Driven Trends and Applications

  • Yasir Hassan Khachoo,
  • Matteo Cutugno,
  • Umberto Robustelli and
  • Giovanni Pugliano

17 June 2026

Google Earth Engine (GEE) has become a central platform for planetary-scale geospatial analysis, but its rapid evolution in the last few years is not yet reflected in the existing review literature. Earlier reviews mainly describe the platform’...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Spatial Planning: Climate Change Challenges and Local Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
15,769 Views
17 Pages

A Recommendation Engine for Predicting Movie Ratings Using a Big Data Approach

  • Mazhar Javed Awan,
  • Rafia Asad Khan,
  • Haitham Nobanee,
  • Awais Yasin,
  • Syed Muhammad Anwar,
  • Usman Naseem and
  • Vishwa Pratap Singh

In this era of big data, the amount of video content has dramatically increased with an exponential broadening of video streaming services. Hence, it has become very strenuous for end-users to search for their desired videos. Therefore, to attain an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data Privacy-Preservation)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,033 Views
8 Pages

27 December 2023

The main consequence of the arrival of COVID-19 was the application of social distancing, which mainly had implications regarding the economies of affected countries. This affected students, whose economy was weakened because of social restrictions....

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 2023 IEEE 5th Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,828 Views
18 Pages

2 July 2021

This study combines satellite observation, cloud platforms, and geographical information systems (GIS) to investigate at a macro-scale level of observation the thermal conditions of two historic clusters in Cyprus, namely in Limassol and Strovolos mu...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,662 Views
13 Pages

For the reliable prediction and analysis of large amounts of data, big data analytics may be applied in many disciplines. They facilitate the discovery of important information in large amounts of data that would otherwise be obscured. Almost all org...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,015 Views
23 Pages

Building Advanced Web Applications Using Data Ingestion and Data Processing Tools

  • Šimun Šprem,
  • Nikola Tomažin,
  • Jelena Matečić and
  • Marko Horvat

Today, advanced websites serve as robust data repositories that constantly collect various user-centered information and prepare it for subsequent processing. The data collected can include a wide range of important information from email addresses,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Web Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,848 Views
27 Pages

Optimizing Apache Spark MLlib: Predictive Performance of Large-Scale Models for Big Data Analytics

  • Leonidas Theodorakopoulos,
  • Aristeidis Karras and
  • George A. Krimpas

1 February 2025

In this study, we analyze the performance of the machine learning operators in Apache Spark MLlib for K-Means, Random Forest Regression, and Word2Vec. We used a multi-node Spark cluster along with collected detailed execution metrics computed from th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms in Data Classification (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
152 Citations
8,862 Views
12 Pages

Prediction of Compression Index of Fine-Grained Soils Using a Gene Expression Programming Model

  • Danial Mohammadzadeh S.,
  • Seyed-Farzan Kazemi,
  • Amir Mosavi,
  • Ehsan Nasseralshariati and
  • Joseph H. M. Tah

In construction projects, estimation of the settlement of fine-grained soils is of critical importance, and yet is a challenging task. The coefficient of consolidation for the compression index (Cc) is a key parameter in modeling the settlement of fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,974 Views
18 Pages

14 December 2020

In the information age, the role of data in any industry is getting more and more important. In the construction industry, however, experts’ experience and intuition are still key determinants in decision-making, while other industries achieve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue BIM and Its Integration with Emerging Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,318 Views
27 Pages

EVCA Classifier: A MCMC-Based Classifier for Analyzing High-Dimensional Big Data

  • Eleni Vlachou,
  • Christos Karras,
  • Aristeidis Karras,
  • Dimitrios Tsolis and
  • Spyros Sioutas

9 August 2023

In this work, we introduce an innovative Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) classifier, a synergistic combination of Bayesian machine learning and Apache Spark, highlighting the novel use of this methodology in the spectrum of big data management and en...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multidimensional Data Structures and Big Data Management)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
12,375 Views
16 Pages

In Data Science, we are concerned with the integration of relevant sciences in observed and empirical contexts. This results in the unification of analytical methodologies, and of observed and empirical data contexts. Given the dynamic nature of conv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data and Cognitive Computing: Feature Papers 2018)
  • Feature Paper
  • Commentary
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,760 Views
7 Pages

8 November 2019

With the increasing availability of large amounts of data, methods that fall under the term data science are becoming important assets for chemical engineers to use. Methods, broadly speaking, are needed to carry out three tasks, namely data manageme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Process Systems Engineering à la Canada)

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