The importance of digital platforms and related data-driven business models is ever increasing and poses challenges to the workability of competition in the respective markets (tendencies towards dominant platforms, paying-with-data instead of traditional money, privacy concerns, etc.). Due to...

Part I. Big Data and Special Databases -- Chapter 1. Data Lineage -- Chapter 2. Digitization and MongoDB – The Art of Possible -- Chapter 3. Graph Databases -- Chapter 4. Data Tiering Options with SAP HANA and Usage in a Hadoop Scenario -- Part II. Streaming -- Chapter 5. Kafka – Real-Time...

This book, the third one of three volumes, focuses on data and the actions around data, like storage and processing. The angle shifts over the volumes from a business-driven approach in "Disruption and DNA" to a strong technical focus in "Data Storage, Processing and Analysis", leaving...

Data equality: the impact and original sin of the new business culture -- De-anonymized tracking: the metaphor of Skynet -- The face and AI -- High definition society: granular governance and a population in cages -- The force of data: how universal recording "warps" human nature -- Data...

1. Big Data Analysis and Compression for Indoor Air Quality Khushboo Sansanwal, Gulshan Shrivastava, Rohit Anand, and Kavita Sharma 2. Programming Paradigms for IoT Applications: An Exploratory Study Sivadi Balakrishna and M. Thirumaran 3. Design and Construction of a Light-Detecting and...