The limited available fossil fuels and the call for sustainable environment have brought
about new technologies for the high efficiency in the use of fossil fuels and introduction of …

Big data are widely recognized as being one of the most powerful drivers to promote
productivity, improve efficiency, and support innovation. It is highly expected to explore the …

Energy-intensive industries account for almost 51% of energy consumption in China. A
continuous improvement in energy efficiency is important for energy-intensive industries …

With the significant improvements in the Energy Internet, we have witnessed the explosion of
multisource energy big data, whose characteristics of vast volume, fast velocity, and diverse …

In the last decennium, all industries were affected considerably by expeditious amendments
in the world of technology. Supply Chain Management (SCM) is also one of the areas that …

There are massive amounts of data generated from IoT, online transactions, click streams,
emails, logs, posts, social networking interactions, sensors, mobile phones and their …

Schema-free (flexible schema) is an attractive feature in the NoSQL document store, where
users can access the database without referring to its schema. It reduces the stress of …

In this paper, file formats like Avro and Parquet are compared with text formats to evaluate
the performance of the data queries. Different data query patterns have been evaluated …

In recent years, a strong interest has been given to web usage prediction and
recommendation methods to improve e-commerce, search engines and other online …

There are huge volumes of raw data generated every day. The question is how to store
these data in order to provide faster data access. The research direction in Big Data projects …