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Chapter and Conference Paper
Topic Detection and Tracking in Social Media Platforms
The large amount of information available on the Web can be effectively exploited in several domains, ranging from opinion mining to the analysis of human dynamics and behaviors. Specifically, it can be levera...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Cloud Computing for Enabling Big Data Analysis
Every day billions of people access web sites, blogs, and social media. Often they use their mobile devices and produce huge amount of data that can be effectively exploited for extracting valuable information...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Appraising SPARK on Large-Scale Social Media Analysis
Software systems for social media analysis provide algorithms and tools for extracting useful knowledge from user-generated social media data. ParSoDA (Parallel Social Data Analytics) is a Java library for dev...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Geocon: A Middleware for Location-Aware Ubiquitous Applications
A core functionality of any location-aware ubiquitous system is storing, indexing, and retrieving information about entities that are commonly involved in these scenarios, such as users, places, events and oth...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Enabling Cloud Interoperability with COMPSs
The advent of Cloud computing has given to researchers the ability to access resources that satisfy their growing needs, which could not be satisfied by traditional computing resources such as PCs and locally ...