Big Data over Networks

Shuguang (Robert) Cui is an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University. His is a Fellow of IEEE and was selected as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters in 2014. Alfred O. Hero, III is R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with appointments in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering and Statistics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo is a Professor at the University of Minnesota. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and is a Fellow of the IEEE, SIAM, and the Royal Society of Canada. José M. F. Moura is Philip L. and Marsha Dowd University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, with appointments in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and, by courtesy, of Biomedical Engineering. He is a Fellow of IEEE and AAAS, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Portugal, and a member of the US NAE.

• Part I. Mathematical Foundations: 1. Tensor models – solution methods and applications Shiqian Ma, Bo Jiang, Xiuzhen Huang and Shuzhong Zhang; 2. Sparsity-aware distributed learning Symeon Chouvardas, Yannis Kopsinis and Sergios Theodoridis; 3. Optimization algorithms for big data with application in wireless networks Mingyi Hong, Wei-Cheng Liao, Ruoyu Sun and Zhi-Quan Luo; 4. A unified distributed algorithm for non-cooperative games Jong-Shi Pang and Meisam Razaviyayn; Part II. Big Data over Cyber Networks: 5. Big data analytics systems Ganesh Ananthanarayanan and Ishai Menache; 6. Distributed big data storage in optical wireless networks Chen Gong, Zhengyuan Xu and Xiaodong Wang; 7. Big data aware wireless communication – challenges and opportunities Suzhi Bi, Rui Zhang, Zhi Ding and Shuguang Cui; 8. Big data processing for smart grid security Lanchao Liu, Zhu Han, H. Vincent Poor and Shuguang Cui; Part III. Big Data over Social Networks: 9. Big data: a new perspective on cities Riccardo Gallotti, Thomas Louail, Rémi Louf and Marc Barthelemy; 10. High dimensional network analytics: mapping topic networks in Twitter data during the Arab Spring Kathleen M. Carley, Wei Wei and Kenneth Joseph; 11. Social influence analysis in the big data era – a review Jianping Cao, Dongliang Duan, Liuqing Yang, Qingpeng Zhang, Senzhang Wang and Feiyue Wang; Part IV. Big Data over Biological Networks: 12. Inference of gene regulatory networks – validation and uncertainty Xiaoning Qian, Byung-Jun Yoon and Edward R Dougherty; 13. Inference of gene networks associated with the host response to infectious disease Zhe Gan, Xin Yuan, Ricardo Henao, Ephraim L. Tsalik and Lawrence Carin; 14. Gene-set-based inference of biological network topologies from big molecular profiling data Lipi Acharya and Dongxiao Zhu; 15. Large scale correlation mining for biomolecular network discovery Alfred Hero and Bala Rajaratnam.