I temi di ricerca affrontati nel Laboratorio CINI "Big Data" spaziano da quelli metodologici, a quelli tecnologici e applicativi.
In particolare, i principali argomenti di interesse a carattere METODOLOGICO sono:
- Data Modeling: Big Data models and Mega-modeling; Pervasive data management; High dimensionality reduction; Large scale mobile & sensor data management; Hybrid data infrastructure; Data posting; Data Quality; Data Profiling.
- Information Extraction: Structuring Big Data (heterogenous, unstructured, structured Big Data); Representing/annotating multimedia Big Data; Entity linking; Topic detection; Entity identification.
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Information integration: Semantic matching; On-the-fly data integration; Ontology-based access to Big Data.
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Querying and retrieval: Algorithms for Big Data search; Semantic Technologies for Big Data querying and retrieval; Stream reasoning; Distributed and peer-to-peer search; Query languages for Big Data; Big Data for profiling.
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Mining and analytics: Machine learning based on Big Data; Data Mining based on large scale heterogenous data; Streaming data analytics; Big Data metrics; Probabilistic models for Big Data; Computational intelligence models for Big Data; Visual analytics for Big Data; Real-time anomaly detection; Information network analysis.
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Big Open Data: Linked open data publishing.
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Algorithms for data intensive scalable computing: Algorithms and programming techniques for Big Data processing; Algorithms for large scale highly dynamic networks; Algorithms for external memory, MapReduce and datastream models; Algorithms for storage and indexing of massive data; Web algorithmics; Large scale graph analysis.
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Privacy: Privacy preserving in Big Data;
I principali argomenti di interesse a carattere TECNOLOGICO sono:
- Distributed computing and architectures: HPC techniques and cloud infrastructures for Big Data; performance engineering for big data computing;"systems of systems" architectural solution.
- Toolkits for Big Data Sources: Web-related data (content & logs), Social networks data (Facebook, Twitter, RenRen).
- Open data portals.
I principali di interesse a carattere APPLICATIVO sono:
- Scientific applications of Big Data: Environmental monitoring; Climate change; Bioinformatics and system biology.
- Social applications of Big Data: Large-scale social media analysis; Large-scale recommendation systems; Innovative services for Smart Cities, Smart Energy and Smart Transportation based on digital traces of human activities both in cyber environments (the Internet) and in the physical world.
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Big Data for Enterprise and Government: Open government; Business model innovation; Enterprise transformation; Business process modelling; Software process modeling and engineering.
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Big Data for security: Big Data for threat detection; Big Data in Cybersecurity.