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....

Through reviewing the current international market for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), this paper identified the internationalization challenges for TCM, including unclear therapeutic material basis and mechanism, difficulty of quality control, low preparation level, registration/policy barriers, and shortage of intellectual property. To deal with these challenges, suggestions were given in...

Current job scheduling systems for massively parallel machines and Beowulf-class compute clusters support batch scheduling involving two classes of queues: prime time vs. non-prime time. Jobs running in these queue classes must satisfy different criteria with respect to jobsize, runtime, or other resource needs. These constraints are designed to delay big jobs to non-prime time in order to prov...

According to Makhlouf & al (2016), to survive the multidimensional changes in markets related to frequent evolution of national and international regulations, consumers’ behavior, information and communications technologies (ICT) and the globalization phenomenon, companies have constantly to reinvent themselves. They seek to transform their information systems in order to integrate quickly the ...