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This paper explores the potential of volunteered geographical information from social media for informing geographical models of behavior, based on a case study of museums in Yorkshire, UK. A spatial interaction model of visitors to 15…
High-performance computing platforms such as supercomputers have traditionally been designed to meet the compute demands of scientific applications. Consequently, they have been architected as producers and not consumers of data. The Apache…
Commercially available scheduling tools such as Primavera and Microsoft Project fail to provide information pertaining to the spatial aspects of construction project. A methodology using geographical information systems (GIS) is developed…
The personalized health care service utilizes the relational patient data and big data analytics to tailor the medication recommendations. However, most of the health care data are in unstructured form and it consumes a lot of time and…
Big Data is considered proprietary asset of companies, organizations, and even nations. Turning big data into real treasure requires the support of big data systems. A variety of commercial and open source products have been unleashed for…
Data generation is a key issue in big data benchmarking that aims to generate application-specific data sets to meet the 4V requirements of big data. Specifically, big data generators need to generate scalable data (Volume) of different…
The use of volunteers has emerged as low-cost alternative to generate accurate geographical information, an approach known as Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). However, VGI is limited by the number and availability of volunteers in…
The advent of the big data paradigm has transformed how industries manage and analyze information, ushering in an era of unprecedented data volume, velocity, and variety. Within this landscape, mixed-data clustering has become a critical…
In recent years, geospatial big data (GBD) has obtained attention across various disciplines, categorized into big earth observation data and big human behavior data. Identifying geospatial patterns from GBD has been a vital research focus…