Det finns mycket data att samla in om människor och mängden av data som går att samla in ökar. Allt fler verksamheter tar steget in i Big Data-­‐användningen och svenska myndigheter är en av dem. Att analysera Big Data kan generera bättre beslutsunderlag, men det finns en problematik i hur inhämtad data ska analyseras och användas vid beslutsprocessen. Studiens resultat visar på att svenska myndigheter inte kan använda befintliga beslutsmodeller vid beslut som grundas i en Big Data-­‐analys. Resultatet av studien visar även på att svenska myndigheter inte använder sig av givna steg i beslutsprocessen, utan det handlar mest om att identifiera Big Data-­‐ analysens innehåll för att fatta ett beslut. Då beslutet grundas i vad Big Data-­‐ analysen pekar på så blir det kringliggande aktiviteterna som insamling av data, kvalitetssäkring av data, analysering av data och visualisering av data allt mer essentiella.

yes / Welcome to this special issue of the Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) journal. The special issue compiles seven technical contributions that significantly advance the state-of-the-art in exploration of Internet of Things (IoT) generated big data using semantic web techniques and technologies.

Yes / Big Data (BD), with their potential to ascertain valued insights for enhanced decision-making process, have recently attracted substantial interest from both academics and practitioners. Big Data Analytics (BDA) is increasingly becoming a trending practice that many organizations are adopting with the purpose of constructing valuable information from BD. The analytics process, including the deployment and use of BDA tools, is seen by organizations as a tool to improve operational efficiency though it has strategic potential, drive new revenue streams and gain competitive advantages over business rivals. However, there are different types of analytic applications to consider. Therefore, prior to hasty use and buying costly BD tools, there is a need for organizations to first understand the BDA landscape.Given the significant nature of the BDand BDA, this paper presents a state-ofthe- art review that presents a holistic view of the BD challenges and BDA methods theorized/proposed/ employed by organizations to help others understand this landscape with the objective of making robust investment decisions. In doing so, systematically analysing and synthesizing the extant research published on BD and BDA area. More specifically, the authors seek to answer the following two principal questions: Q1 –What are the different types of BD challenges theorized/proposed/confronted by organizations? and Q2 – What are the different types of BDA methods theorized/proposed/employed to overcome BD challenges?. This systematic literature review (SLR) is carried out through observing and understanding the past trends and extant patterns/themes in the BDA research area, evaluating contributions, summarizing knowledge, thereby identifying limitations, implications and potential further research avenues to support the academic community in exploring research themes/patterns. Thus, to trace the implementation of BD strategies, a profiling method is employed to analyze articles (published in English-speaking peer-reviewed journals between 1996 and 2015) extracted from the Scopus database. The analysis presented in this paper has identified relevant BD research studies that have contributed both conceptually and empirically to the expansion and accrual of intellectual wealth to the BDA in technology and organizational resource management discipline.

This report introduces the concept of three-dimensional (3D) radial plots for the visualization of multivariate large scale datasets in plant operations. A key concept of this representation of data is the introduction of time as the third dimension in a two dimensional radial plot, which allows for the display of time series data in any number of process variables. This report shows the ability of 3D radial plots to conduct systemic fault detection and classification in chemical processes through the use of confidence ellipses, which capture the desired operating region of process variables during a defined period of steady-state operation. Principal component analysis (PCA) is incorporated into the method to reduce multivariate interactions and the dimensionality of the data. The method is applied to two case studies with systemic faults present (compressor surge and column flooding) as well as data obtained from the Tennessee Eastman simulator, which contained localized faults. Fault classification using the interior angles of the radial plots is also demonstrated in the paper. / text

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Scania has developed a unique modular product system which is an important successfactor, creating exibility and lies at the heart of their business model. R&Duse product and vehicle product properties to describe the product key factors. Theseproduct properties are both used during the development of new features and products,and also utilized by the project oce to estimate the total contribution of a project.Scania want to develop a new method to understand and be able to track and comparethe projects eect over time and also predict future vehicle improvements. In this thesis, we investigate how to quantify the impact on vehicle product propertiesand predict component improvements, based on data sources that have not beenutilized for these purposes before. The impact objective is ultimately to increase the understandingof the development process of heavy vehicles and the aim for this projectwas to provide statistical methods that can be used for investigative and predictivepurposes. First, with analysis of variance we statistically veried and quantied differencesin a product property between comparable vehicle populations with respectto component generations. Then, Random Forest and Articial Neural Networks wereimplemented to predict future eect on product property with respect to componentimprovements. We could see a dierence of approximately 10 % between the comparablecomponents of interest, which was more than the expected dierence. Theexpectations are based on performance measurements from a test environment. Theimplemented Random Forest model was not able to predict future eect based on theseperformance measures. Articial Neural Networks was able to capture structures fromthe test environment and its predictive performance and reliability was, under the givencircumstances, relatively good.

The advances in hardware, software, and networks have enabled applications from business enterprises, scientific and engineering disciplines, to social networks, to generate data at unprecedented volume, variety, velocity, and varsity not possible before. Innovation in these domains is thus now hindered by their ability to analyze and discover knowledge from the collected data in a timely and scalable fashion. To facilitate such large-scale big data analytics, the MapReduce computing paradigm and its open-source implementation Hadoop is one of the most popular and widely used technologies. Hadoop's success as a competitor to traditional parallel database systems lies in its simplicity, ease-of-use, flexibility, automatic fault tolerance, superior scalability, and cost effectiveness due to its use of inexpensive commodity hardware that can scale petabytes of data over thousands of machines. Recurring queries, repeatedly being executed for long periods of time on rapidly evolving high-volume data, have become a bedrock component in most of these analytic applications. Efficient execution and optimization techniques must be designed to assure the responsiveness and scalability of these recurring queries. In this dissertation, we thoroughly investigate topics in the area of recurring query processing on big data. In this dissertation, we first propose a novel scalable infrastructure called Redoop that treats recurring query over big evolving data as first class citizens during query processing. This is in contrast to state-of-the-art MapReduce/Hadoop system experiencing significant challenges when faced with recurring queries including redundant computations, significant latencies, and huge application development efforts. Redoop offers innovative window-aware optimization techniques for recurring query execution including adaptive window-aware data partitioning, window-aware task scheduling, and inter-window caching mechanisms. Redoop retains the fault-tolerance of MapReduce via automatic cache recovery and task re-execution support as well. Second, we address the crucial need to accommodate hundreds or even thousands of recurring analytics queries that periodically execute over frequently updated data sets, e.g., latest stock transactions, new log files, or recent news feeds. For many applications, such recurring queries come with user-specified service-level agreements (SLAs), commonly expressed as the maximum allowed latency for producing results before their merits decay. On top of Redoop, we built a scalable multi-query sharing engine tailored for recurring workloads in the MapReduce infrastructure, called Helix. Helix deploys new sliced window-alignment techniques to create sharing opportunities among recurring queries without introducing additional I/O overheads or unnecessary data scans. Furthermore, Helix introduces a cost/benefit model for creating a sharing plan among the recurring queries, and a scheduling strategy for executing them to maximize the SLA satisfaction. Third, recurring analytics queries tend to be expensive, especially when query processing consumes data sets in the hundreds of terabytes or more. Time sensitive recurring queries, such as fraud detection, often come with tight response time constraints as query deadlines. Data sampling is a popular technique for computing approximate results with an acceptable error bound while reducing high-demand resource consumption and thus improving query turnaround times. In this dissertation, we propose the first fast approximate query engine for recurring workloads in the MapReduce infrastructure, called Faro. Faro introduces two key innovations: (1) a deadline-aware sampling strategy that builds samples from the original data with reduced sample sizes compared to uniform sampling, and (2) adaptive resource allocation strategies that maximally improve the approximate results while assuring to still meet the response time requirements specified in recurring queries. In our comprehensive experimental study of each part of this dissertation, we demonstrate the superiority of the proposed strategies over state-of-the-art techniques in scalability, effectiveness, as well as robustness.

This paper is about retail development and its impact on local and regional communities. As the Big-box phenomena continues to play out in the 21st century, planning departments across the nation have been called to action with respect to addressing negative aspects of retail development. The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature of retail, by tracing the evolving retail form and applying critical analysis to planning practices that no longer safeguard community interests in relation to retail industry initiatives. Specifically, this paper discusses issues that shape the social, economic and physical design of urban life. To that end, this paper reflects on the impact of retail and offers guidelines for resolving potential community/retail conflicts. / Master of Urban and Regional Planning

This thesis begins by exploring the notion of ‘The Big Society’ promoted by David Cameron at the time of the UK general election in May 2010 and arguably one of the most significant ideological themes to have emerged from the British Conservative Party in recent years. This conceptual analysis then explores the intellectual antecedents which inform Big Society ideology, arguing that the eclectic nature of Conservative Party thinking draws on liberal, conservative, radical and socialist models of community, civil society and the role of the state in relation to these. Theoretical models such as Lévi Strauss’s (1962) model of bricolage, Hall’s (1998) agency of political ideas and Vidovich’s (2007) ‘hybridised model’ help uncover the contradictions and limitations in Big Society policy-making and implementation. The thesis argues that there is a distinct silence in relation to the role of capitalism, either in the historical narratives or its place in the new political order that makes up the Big Society. Absent also, is any clear notion of the role and contribution of education in this context. Analysis of Secretary of State Michael Gove’s education policy 2010-2014, demonstrates that an education system constructed on notions of freedom, responsibility and fairness may have radically changed the education landscape in England but has ultimately failed to stem the tide of neo-liberal hegemony, the effects of which the Big Society attempted to ameliorate.

This report introduces ProGENitor; a system to empower individuals with career advice based on vast amounts of data. Specifically, it develops a machine learning algorithm that shows users how to efficiently reached specific career goals based upon the histories of other users. A reference implementation of this algorithm is presented, along with experimental results that show that it provides quality actionable intelligence to users. / text