This article lights the need for the identification of resource elasticity in handheld edge computing systems and its related issues. Under a few developing application situations, for example, in urban areas, operational checking of huge foundations, wearable help, and the Internet of Things,...

Twitter behaves as a social sensor of the world. The tweets provided by the Twitter Firehose reveal the properties of big data (i.e. volume, variety, and velocity). With millions of users on Twitter, the Twitter's virtual communities are now replicating the real-world communities. Consequently,...

This thesis investigates profiling and differentiating customers through the use of statistical data mining techniques. The business application of our work centres on examining individuals’ seldomly studied yet critical consumption behaviour over an extensive time period within the context of...

Purpose – Social Media is one of the largest platforms to voluntarily communicate thoughts. With increase in multimedia data on social networking websites, information about human behaviour is increasing. This user-generated data are present on the internet in different modalities including...

For decades, the Codes of Fair Information Practice have served as a model for data privacy, protecting personal information collected by governments and corporations. But professional data management standards such as the Codes of Fair Information Practice do not take into account a world of...