Open source software (OSS) is a public good. A self-interested individual would consider providing such software, if the benefits he gained from having it justified the cost of programming. Nevertheless each agent is tempted to free ride and wait for others to develop the software instead. This...

"This book explores problems related to the five "Vs" of big data, technological issues, as well as big data analytics applications. It also covers how data must be extracted, grouped, organized, aggregated and correlated with methods and techniques such as data integration (ETL), data...