Harnessing big data, deep data, and smart data from state-of-the-art imaging might accelerate the design and realization of advanced functional materials. Here we discuss new opportunities in materials design enabled by the availability of big data in imaging and data analytics approaches, including their limitations, in material systems of practical interest. We specifically focus on how these...

The effective management of a power grid with an increasing share of (distributed) renewables and more and more available data, e.g., coming from smart meters, heavily relies on advanced data analytics such as demand and supply forecasting. In this context, data management is one major challenge in electric grids. Large amount of data from multiple heterogeneous sources require transformations,...

Information processing is increasingly embedded in the systems and processes of the contemporary city to enhance its operations, functions, and designs. This has been fueled by the new digital transition in ICT enabled by an integration of various forms of pervasive computing. Driving this transition predominantly are big data analytics and context–aware computing and their increasing amalgamat...

This exploratory analysis of smart partnerships identifies the risk of increasing the digital divide with the deployment of data analytics. Smart partnerships in education appear to include a process of evolution into a synergy of strategic and holistic approaches that enhance the quality of education with digital technologies, harnessing ICT “smartly” both in relation to learning and support o...

Predictive analytics, which has grown out of Business Intelligence (BI), employs knowledge discovery on existing data to predict or recommend future actions. It differs from BI in that BI focuses on past performance and the discovery of trends while predictive analytics forecasts behaviour and results in order to guide specific decisions. Predictive analytics is used to analyze large amounts of...

Video cameras are pervasively deployed for security and smart city scenarios, with millions of them in large cities worldwide. Achieving the potential of these cameras requires efficiently analyzing the live videos in realtime. We describe VideoStorm, a video analytics system that processes thousands of video analytics queries on live video streams over large clusters. Given the high costs of v...

The number of courses delivered online or supported using learning management systems continues to rise; both in size and number, it is used by more students and employees to gain new knowledge, learn skills and earn degrees. (1) In contrast to traditional methods of teaching that leave little trail behind, online learning has the potential to generate huge amounts of data about the students an...

Smart homes have attracted much attention due to the expanding of Internet-of-Things (IoT) and smart devices. In this paper, we propose a smart gateway platform for data collection and awareness in smart home networks. A smart gateway will replace the traditional network gateway to connect the home network and the Internet. A smart home network supports different types of smart devices, such as...

Big data analytics in smart cities has given rise to the new interdisciplinary field of urban science, which uses mining, visual analytics, modeling, and simulation create novel planning su...