Big Data refers to an enormous volume of structured and unstructured data that cannot be handled with traditional databases. The emergence of big data is due to the huge quantities of information. Currently, researchers tend to study big data particularly data produced from social networks. Nowadays, these latest become a vital and crucial tool in tracking and extracting public opinion for deve...

A dynamic systems modeling approach is being developed for assessing the sustainability of an industrial sector. Assessing systems sustainability is a complex undertaking and entails the synthesis of large quantities of information from different sources. In this approach, those environmental performance measures relevant to the industrial sector in question are first identified. Then a systems...

Analysis of new trends in databases development shows that promising solution in databases gathering a huge quantities of information is approximate retrieval. This work presents the fuzzy queries processing with a special attention to context-dependent and multidimensional membership functions. In the first part, the analysis of occurrence of fuzzy values in SQL queries directed to the databas...

The explosive growth in the availability of information is overwhelming traditional information management systems. Although individual pieces of information have become easy to find, the larger context in which they exist has become harder to track. These contextual questions are ideally suited to visualization since the human visual system is remarkably adept at interpreting large quantities ...

Due to the increasing reliance of our society on the timely and reliable transfer of large quantities of information (such as voice, data, and video) across high speed communication networks, it is becoming important for a network to offer survivability, or at least graceful degradation, in the event of network failure. In this paper we aim to offer a solution in the selection of the K-best dis...

The last forty years have seen computer science evolve as a major academic discipline. Today the field is undergoing a major change. Some of the drivers of this change are the internet, the world wide web, large quantities of information in digital form and wide spread use of computers for accessing information. This change is requiring universities to revise the content of computer science pro...

There are large quantities of information about patients and their medical conditions. The discovery of trends and patterns hidden within the data could significantly enhance understanding of disease and medicine progression and management by evaluating stored medical documents. Methods are needed to facilitate discovering the trends and patterns within such large quantities of medical document...

One fundamental problem that exists with the World Wide Web is the difficulty involved in locating relevant material given the enormous quantities of information available. Existing systems try to tackle this problem by using spiders to locate, and indexes to provide access to, these resources. Although useful, there are a number of flaws associated with this approach. We describe an approach u...

With the two-dimension (2D) radar screen, current visualization interface has reached its limits in term of quantities of information that should be made available to controllers. Our investigation consists in the use of three-dimension (3D) stereoscopic visualization as controllers’ interface, assuming that 3D environment provides possibilities to incorporate additional information such as wea...

The Internet has a unique number of qualities which can allow teachers at all levels to create and use new tools to introduce and personalize the learning experience for their students. This medium carries vast quantities of information in all different formats and modalities such as text, figures, video and audio (both downloadable and streaming). It is dynamic in that new information is being...