New Horizons for a Data-Driven Economy A Roadmap for Usage and Exploitation of Big Data in Europe

“The book provides rich information on the different processes involved in big data value chain and explains each process with case studies in diverse industrial sectors. … the book can help academic researchers, undergraduate students, and graduate students because it contains information about big data and its recent development and generates some research ideas. This book can also facilitate government officials and executives of different organizations to consider future roadmap by taking advantage of big data.” (Sunny Sun and Rob Law, Information Technology & Tourism, Vol. 17, 2017)

José María Cavanillas is currently R&D&I Director in Atos since 2000. He is Master Engineer in Telecommunications in Madrid Technical University (UPM) and has completed post-graduate studies in Business Administration and International Trade from CEPADE. In the last 20 years his team has been involved in more than 200 R&D&I projects.

Edward Curry is a Research Scientist at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. His research interests include smart cities, energy intelligence, semantic information management, event based systems, and collaborative data management. He has worked extensively with industry and government advising on the adoption patterns, practicalities, and benefits of new technologies.

Wolfgang Wahlster is the Director and CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and a Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany). He has published more than 170 technical papers and 8 books on language technology and intelligent user interfaces.