This article describes how stateful data analytic frameworks have emerged to provide fresh and low-latency results for big data processing. At present, it is desired to achieve the fine-grained data model in Spark data processing framework. However, Spark adopts coarse-grained data model in...

Terrorist attacks launched by extremist groups or individuals have caused catastrophic consequences worldwide. Terrorism risk assessment therefore plays a crucial role in national and international security. Fuzzy reasoning based terrorism risk assessment systems offer a significant potential of...