The moving directions of big data are readjusted with updated concerns along with the quick boom of Internet of Things (IoT). Any serious contribution to the advance of the IoT must necessarily be the result of synergetic activities conducted in different fields of knowledge, such as...

Distance-based methods for measuring spatial concentration such as the Duranton-Overman index undergo an increasing popularity in the spatial econometrics community. However, a limiting factor for their usage is their computational complexity since both their memory requirements and running-time...