Predictive Cloud Computing with Big Data: Professional Golf and Tennis Forecasting [Application Notes]

IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 62-76

  Baughman, Aaron K ^a   Bogdany, Richard J ^a   McAvoy, Cameron ^a   Locke, Richard ^a   O'Connell, Brian ^a   Upton, Clay ^b  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; FORECASTING; MEDIA STREAMING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SPORTS; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; PREDICTIVE MODELING; PREDICTIVE MODELS; STREAMING DATA; STREAMING VIDEOS; USER EXPERIENCE; WEB SITE CONTENTS;

BIG DATA;

EID: 84937776204     PISSN: 1556603X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCI.2015.2437551     Document Type: Article

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