Quarry: A User-centered Big Data Integration Platform

A Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach for Big Data Analytics Platform Selection

Big data sizes are constantly increasing. Big data analytics is where advanced analytic techniques are applied on big data sets. Analytics based on large data samples reveals and leverages business change. The popularity of big data analytics platforms, which are often available as open-source, has not remained unnoticed by big companies. Google uses MapReduce for PageRank and inverted indexes....

On Enriching User-Centered Data Integration Schemas in Service Lakes

User-centered Social Network Profiles Integration

Large scale online social networks (OSNs) such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, have become an important part of our every day life. Users are connected to multiple OSNs in which they maintain their different profiles including a lot of personal and social information. As the number of friends of a given user may grow so rapidly, it becomes impossible to manage all updates from friends’ profiles...

A Distributed Recommendation Platform for Big Data

The vast amount of information that recommenders manage these days has reached a point where scalability has become a critical factor. In this work, we propose a scalable architecture designed for computing Collaborative Filtering recommendations in a Big Data scenario. In order to build a highly scalable and fault-tolerant platform, we employ fully distributed systems without any single point ...

User-Centered Interactive Data Mining

While many data mining models concentrate on automation and efficiency, interactive data mining models focus on adaptive and effective communications between human users and computer systems. User requirements and preferences play the most important roles in humanmachine interactions, and guide the selection of target knowledge representations, operations, and measurements. Practically, user re...