The global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide an evidence-based policy for sustainable development planning and programming to halt poverty, gain prosperity protect the planet by 2030. SDGs consist of 17 goals 169 targets that emphasize balance between economic, social environmental sustainability. Since framework launched in 2015, there is growing international policies, practices, i...

Abstract In 2015, 193 nations came together to agree Agenda 2030: 17 goals ranging from the elimination of poverty building partnerships achieve those goals. The spirit UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is leave no one behind. Artificial intelligence (AI) has a great potential assist in reaching SDGs. For instance, using algorithms on new and vast agricultural data sets can improve effici...

Editorials 699 In 2015, the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will probably be replaced by 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although only one SDG names health directly, it has been assumed that health involves a broad range of social determinants covered by the other SDGs and that sustainable health requires a sustainable world. Although any form of development that allows good-...

Data scientists often implement machine learning algorithms in imperative languages such as Java, Matlab and R. Yet such implementations fail to achieve the performance and scalability of specialised data-parallel processing frameworks. Our goal is to execute imperative Java programs in a data-parallel fashion with high throughput and low latency. This raises two challenges: how to support the ...