New Horizons for a Data-Driven Economy

José María Cavanillas is currently R&D&I Director in Atos since 2000. He is Master Engineer in Telecommunications in Madrid Technical University (UPM) and has completed post-graduate studies in Business Administration and International Trade from CEPADE. In the last 20 years his team has been involved in more than 200 R&D&I projects.Edward Curry is a Research Scientist at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. His research interests include smart cities, energy intelligence, semantic information management, event based systems, and collaborative data management. He has worked extensively with industry and government advising on the adoption patterns, practicalities, and benefits of new technologies. Wolfgang Wahlster is the Director and CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and a Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany). He has published more than 170 technical papers and 8 books on language technology and intelligent user interfaces.

“The book provides rich information on the different processes involved in big data value chain and explains each process with case studies in diverse industrial sectors. … the book can help academic researchers, undergraduate students, and graduate students because it contains information about big data and its recent development and generates some research ideas. This book can also facilitate government officials and executives of different organizations to consider future roadmap by taking advantage of big data.” (Sunny Sun and Rob Law, Information Technology & Tourism, Vol. 17, 2017)

• Part I: The Big Data Opportunity.- The Big Data Value Opportunity.- Introduction to the BIG Project.- Part II: The Big Data Value Chain: Enabling and Value Creating Technologies.- The Big Data Value Chain: Definitions, Concepts, and Theoretical Approaches.- Big Data Acquisition.- Big Data Analysis.- Big Data Curation.- Big Data Storage.- Big Data Usage.- Part III: Usage and Exploitation of Big Data.- Big Data Driven Innovation in Industrial Sectors.- Big Data in the Health Sector.- Big Data in the Public Sector.- Big Data in the Finance and Insurance Sectors.- Big Data in the Energy and Transport Sectors.- Big Data in the Media and Entertainment Sectors.- Part IV: A Roadmap for Big Data Research.- Cross-Sectorial Requirements Analysis for Big Data Research.- New Horizons for a Data-Driven Economy: Roadmaps and Action Plans for Technology, Businesses, Policy, and Society.