Nowadays, the importance of achieving and maintaining a high standard of data quality is
widely recognized by both practitioners and researchers. Based on its impact on …

Big Data Systems (BDSs) are an emerging class of scalable software technologies whereby
massive amounts of heterogeneous data are gathered from multiple sources, managed …

The previous chapters paint a rich portrait of the trends, consequences, and implications of
the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). In this closing chapter, we reflect upon these …

With the advances in communication technologies and the high amount of data generated,
collected, and stored, it becomes crucial to manage the quality of this data deluge in an …

Big Data is an essential research area for governments, institutions, and private agencies to
support their analytics decisions. Big Data refers to all about data, how it is collected …

Data quality and especially the assessment of data quality have been intensively discussed
in research and practice alike. To support an economically oriented management of data …

The global health landscape has been persistently challenged by the emergence and re-
emergence of infectious diseases. Traditional epidemiological models, rooted in the early …

Although big data has become an integral part of businesses and society, there is still
concern about the quality aspects of big data. Past research has focused on identifying …

Big Data has gained an enormous momentum the past few years because of the
tremendous volume of generated and processed Data from diverse application domains …

While big data benefits are numerous, the use of big data requires, however, addressing
new challenges related to data processing, data security, and especially degradation of data …