1. Exploring a professional social network system to support learning in the workplace / Anthony "Skip" Basiel, Paul Coyne -- 2. Knowledge producing megamachines : the biggest Web 2.0 communities of the future / Laszlo Z. Karvalics -- 3. Web 2.0 driven sustainability reporting / Daniel Süpke,...

Multimedia searching and management have become popular due to demanding applications and competition among companies. Despite the increase in interest, there is no existing book covering basic knowledge on state-of-the-art techniques within the field. This book provides an introduction to the...

"This book focuses on application of nature-inspired algorithms for handling issues and challenges posed by big data in diverse environments. It highlights the usability and performance measures of these techniques in dealing with data related problems of emerging areas. It also explore the role...

Technologies for big data / Kapil Bakshi -- Applying the K-means algorithm in big raw data sets with Hadoop and MapReduce / Ilias K. Savvas, Georgia N. Sofianidou, M-Tahar Kechadi -- Synchronizing execution of big data in distributed and parallelized environments / Gueyoung Jung, Tridib...

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