Big Data Research in Italy: A Perspective

Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 163-170

  Bergamaschi, Sonia ^a   Carlini, Emanuele ^b   Ceci, Michelangelo ^c   Furletti, Barbara ^d   Giannotti, Fosca ^d   Malerba, Donato ^c,e   Mezzanzanica, Mario ^f   Monreale, Anna ^d   Pasi, Gabriella ^f   Pedreschi, Dino ^d,g   Perego, Raffele ^b   Ruggieri, Salvatore ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^d ISTI CNR   (Italy)

^e National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics (CINI)   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Big data; Energy; Job offers; Privacy; Smart cities

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; SMART CITY;

DIVERSE DOMAINS; ENERGY; JOB OFFERS;

BIG DATA;

EID: 85010416856     PISSN: 20958099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/J.ENG.2016.02.011     Document Type: Article

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