Oil and gas industries archive volumes of heterogeneous data. These companies, by virtue of their diverse operations, comprise of complicated organizational structure. The nature of organizational set-up with several operational units, often results with communication barriers among operational...

Due to explosive growth of data and information, exploration and production manager's strategic planning, decision-making process, development and operational control activities have become complicated. One of the causative factors of this complexity is insufficient, improper and untimely...

Chapter 1. Social Big Data: An Overview and Applications -- Chapter 2. Introduction to Big data Technology -- Chapter 3. Credibility Analysis in Social Big Data -- Chapter 4. Semantic data discovery from Social Big Data -- Chapter 5. Predictive analytics using Social Big Data and machine...