Bigdata 2016 - Big Data Integration and the Internet of Things

INTRODUCTION
Recent years have witnessed that a growing number of smart devices are connected to the Internet and their proportional use is explosively increasing to improve our safety and quality of our daily lives. It is expected that by 2020, around 50 billion smart devices will be connected, promoting the realization of the concept of Internet of Things (IoT). Based on the current rate, the smart devices will soon-to-be one of the major players in this era of Big Data as the massive information from them can be used for various decision making processes in a wide range of sectors, such as transportation, health care, home automation and education. However, despite all advantages, different questions arise to best and properly utilize the smart devices, which could be highly dependent on the applications of interest.
This book focuses on recent advances regarding Big Data and its integration with various IoT smart devices to the process and analysis of the data to benefit our daily lives. In particular, this book aims to provide a prime venue for practitioners and researchers (a) to share their knowledge on the state-of-art Big Data technologies and their limitations, (b) to introduce new research issues regarding the integration between IoT and Big Data, and (c) to discuss about their potential solutions.
OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK
It is widely believed that in the near future, IoT smart devices will produce massive amount of Big Data, which is a great source of information to enrich and facilitate our daily lives. On the other hand, it is not difficult to understand that the ways we handle the Big Data from the devices will also shape the future of the IoT smart devices. Despite the significance of their correlation, there is generally a deficiency to understand the suitable approaches to integrate the two new emerging research areas. This book aims to address this issue by providing a prime venue for both practitioners and researchers to discuss about the existing results and the future directions of the area at different levels, including, but not limited to, efficient and reliable sensory IoT data collection for Big Data analytics, adequate and survivable network infrastructure for their integration, and new techniques and algorithms to outsource this infrastructure. Furthermore, with the raise of security and privacy issues, and given that Big Data analytics can compromise them, advances on security and privacy solutions are planned to be offered in the book, aiding infrastructure providers and Big data analysts to efficiently deal with those issues. In particular, we expect the book will be a valuable resource for entry and intermediate level researchers and practitioners to capture the state-of-art technologies in the respected area.
TARGET AUDIENCE
This book, Big Data Integration and the Internet of Things, is targeting the audiences who are interested in the technical aspects of Big Data and IoT smart environment integration, in detail, various aspects of Big Data collection and analysis as well as their impact to IoT environment, such as data sensory, networking, efficiency of sensors, data storage, data analysis cloud practices, and Big data users. As opposed to the books, which are specifically on Big Data or on IoT, this book aims to focus on the challenges and solutions with respect to the integration of the two emerging areas. As a result, we expect the final book can be used by researchers who are interested in the issues, as well as intermediate level technicians from a vast range of relevant areas such as healthcare, homeland security, agriculture, military, etc. We also believe that the book can be used as a class course material at the graduate level at a college.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to the following:
Contributors are welcome to submit chapters on the following topics relating to:
* New applications for Big Data and their interrelation with the Internet of things: agriculture, naval defense, maritime sensing, intelligent communities and buildings, others
* Big data extraction from the IoT smart devices
* Network optimization in IoT Big Data environment
* Emerging data science issues related to Big Data
* Secure and privacy issues in IoT Big Data environment
* Social computing issue in IoT Big Data environment
* New social networking applications for IoT Big Data environment
* Communication technologies interoperability to support network infrastructure on Big Data Environment
* Network function virtualization (NVF) and the Big Data environment
* Software-defined network and its impact on Big Data environment
* Advances on mobile networks and the challenges for Big Data environment
* Advances on machine-to-machine (M2M) technology
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
We expect to receive significant, high quality, and innovative contributions that are not yet published or that are not currently under review elsewhere. To make the book accessible to larger audience, contributions from the authors can also be based on the concepts learned from previously published works. The book is intended to be used as graduate level courseware too. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before *October 15, 2015*, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by *October 31, 2015* about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by *January 15, 2016*. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
PUBLISHER
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.
IMPORTANT DATES
October 15, 2015: Proposal Submission Deadline
October 31, 2015: Notification of Acceptance
January 15, 2016: Full Chapter Submission
March 31, 2016: Review Results Returned
April 15, 2016: Revised Chapter Submission
April 30, 2016: Final Acceptance Notifications to Chapter Authors
May 10, 2016: Final Chapter Submission
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
Dr. Michele Nogueira
Departments of Informatics
Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
Tel.: +55 41 3361-3262
E-mail: michele.nogueira-AT-ufpr.br