Book Title: Big Data: Storage, Sharing, and Security (3S)

(Publisher: Taylor & Francis LLC, CRC Press )

About the publisher: ( http://www.crcpress.com/ ) As one of the world's largest publishers, Taylor & Francis maintains offices throughout the world including London, Brighton, and Abingdon in the U.K.; New York, Philadelphia, Florence, Kentucky, and Boca Raton, Florida in the U.S.A.; and Singapore, Australia, China, and India. Publishing more than 1,500 journals and approximately 3,300 new books each year, the Taylor and Francis Group has a backlist in excess of 60,000 specialist titles.

Important Dates:

Title and Abstract Due: February 15, 2015 (please email to Dr. Fei Hu: fei@eng.ua.edu)

Final Chapter Draft Due: July 1, 2015

Camera-Ready Due: July 15, 2015

Send for Publishing: August 1, 2015

Note: Please submit all finished book chapters and inquires to Dr. Fei Hu {email: fei@eng.ua.edu}.

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2. Book Information

 Book Editor: Dr. Fei Hu { web: http://feihu.eng.ua.edu }

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Alabama,

Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

E-mail: fei@eng.ua.edu

  

1. Book Abstract:
Big Data is one of the hottest topics today due to the large-scale data generation and distribution in computing products. It is tightly integrated with other cutting-edge networking technologies, including cloud computing, social networks, Internet of Things, sensor networks, etc. Characteristics of big data may be summarized as four Vs, i.e., Volume (great volume), Variety (various modalities), Velocity (rapid generation), and Value (huge value but very low density). Many governments such as the U.S. also paid great attention to big data. In March 2012, the Obama Administration announced a USD 200 million investment to launch the "Big Data Research and Development Plan," which was a second major scientific and technological development initiative after the "Information Highway" initiative in 1993. Since Big Data is a relatively new field, there are many challenging issues to be addressed today: (1) Storage: How do we aggregate heterogeneous types of data from numerous sources, and then use fast database management technology to store the Big Data? (2) Sharing: How do we use cloud computing to share the Big Data among large groups of people? (3) Security: How do we protect the privacy of Big Data during the network sharing? This book will cover the above 3S designs, through the detailed description of the concepts and implementations.

 

2. Book Features
Since Big Data is such a new field, there are very few books covering its implementation. Second, although a few books are already published, they are mostly about the basic concepts and society impacts. They are thus not suitable to R&D people. Instead, our book will discuss Big Data management from R & D perspective, and will have >400 pages of technical details on the most important implementation aspects, i.e., 3S. Our chapters will be written by world-famous Big Data experts.

Table of Contents (tentative; may change after receiving contributors' drafts)