大数据分析中的计算智能研究现状与展望

随着产业界和科学界数据量的爆炸式增长,大数据技术和应用吸引了众多的关注.如何分析大数据,充分挖掘大数据的潜在价值,成为需要深入探讨的科学问题.计算智能是科学研究和工程实践中解决复杂问题的有效手段,是人工智能和信息科学的重要研究方向,应用计算智能方法进行大数据分析具有巨大的潜力.对大数据分析中的计算智能方法进行综述,结合大数据的特征,讨论了大数据分析中计算智能研究存在的问题和进一步的研究方向,阐述了数据源共享问题,并建议利用以天文学为代表的数据密集型基础科研领域的数据开展大数据分析研究.     

Establishment-level occupational safety analytics: Challenges and opportunities

In occupational safety and health, big data and analytics show promise for the prediction and prevention of workplace injuries. Advances in computing power and analytical methods have allowed companies to reveal insights from the “big” data that previously would have gone undetected. Despite the promise, occupational safety has lagged behind other industries, such as supply chain management and healthcare, in terms of exploiting the potential of analytics and much of the data collected by organizations goes unanalyzed. The purpose of the present paper is to argue for the broader application of establishment-level safety analytics. This is accomplished by defining the terms, describing previous research, outlining the necessary components required, and describing knowledge gaps and future directions. The knowledge gaps and future directions for research in establishment-level analytics are categorized into readiness for analytics, analytics methods, technology integration, data culture, and impact of analytics.     

基于MOOC的大数据分析技术

MOOC近几年发展迅猛,在使用过程中,大规模的学习者和海量的教学资源积累了庞大的学习行为数据。因此,基于MOOC的大数据分析成为了一个新兴的研究热点,其分析框架中涉及的四大核心是：大数据从哪里获取（Where）、MOOC大数据的类型（What）、如何进行大数据分析（How）和大数据分析应用（Do）。本文通过对MOOC现状的分析、特征及分类的梳理,提出一种Where-What-How-Do大数据分析框架,并对上述的四大核心进行阐述和回答。最后,结合Canvas Network数据集进行聚类分析和多元回归分析,得出关于MOOC数据的一些启示和应用。      

生物医疗健康大数据应用支撑平台与关键技术

随着生物信息学的不断发展,生物医学领域积累了大量的数据,大数据已经贯穿基础研究、临床诊断、医药开发、健康管理等生物医学领域的各个环节。如何有效存储、管理、分析这些海量数据面临严峻的而挑战。基于超级计算机的计算分析和存储能力,在生物医学大数据处理的异构融合架构,面向生物医学大数据的层次式存储系统,生物医学大数据处理的异构并行计算和多源数据的汇聚机制与分析方法,突破生物医学大数据的汇聚、存储、分析等方面的关键技术,构建一个计算、分析处理和存储融合平台,以满足多种类型生物医学大数据应用的不同需求。     

大数据分析平台建设与应用综述

大数据分析平台是开展大数据处理与分析应用所必需的基础设施。文章基于课题组开展大数据分析平台建设的科研成果与实践经验,结合大型企业实施行业应用项目的切身感受,从大数据分析平台设计、主流热点技术、行业应用案例三个方面进行介绍。文章首先分析了大数据分析平台的主要功能和体系架构,然后介绍了大数据分析平台的关键技术,重点介绍了 Spark技术的体系架构及核心组件,最后介绍了大数据技术在大规模制造业、零售业和智能电网三个领域的应用案例。     

Business value of big data analytics: A systems-theoretic approach and empirical test

Although big data analytics have been widely considered a key driver of marketing and innovation processes, whether and how big data analytics create business value has not been fully understood and empirically validated at a large scale. Taking social media analytics as an example, this paper is among the first attempts to theoretically explain and empirically test the market performance impact of big data analytics. Drawing on the systems theory, we explain how and why social media analytics create super-additive value through the synergies in functional complementarity between social media diversity for gathering big data from diverse social media channels and big data analytics for analyzing the gathered big data. Furthermore, we deepen our theorizing by considering the difference between small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and large firms in the required integration effort that enables the synergies of social media diversity and big data analytics. In line with this theorizing, we empirically test the synergistic effect of social media diversity and big data analytics by using a recent large-scale survey data set from 18,816 firms in Italy. We find that social media diversity and big data analytics have a positive interaction effect on market performance, which is more salient for SMEs than for large firms.     

Optimizing the energy efficiency of chiller systems in the semiconductor industry through big data analytics and an empirical study

Big data analytics is playing a more and more prominent role in the manufacturing industry as corporations attempt to utilize vast amounts of data to optimize the operation of plants and factories to gain a competitive advantage. Since the advent of Industry 4.0, also known as smart manufacturing, big data analytics, combined with expert domain knowledge, is facilitating ever-greater levels of speed and automaticity in manufacturing processes. The semiconductor industry is a fundamental driver of this transformation; moreover, due to the highly complex and energy-consuming nature of the semiconductor manufacturing process, semiconductor fabrication facilities (fabs) can also benefit greatly from incorporating big data analytics to improve production and energy efficiency. This paper developed a big data analytics framework, along with an empirical study conducted in collaboration with a semiconductor manufacturer in Taiwan, to optimize the energy efficiency of chiller systems in semiconductor fabs. Chiller systems are one of the most energy-consuming systems within a typical modern fab. The developed big data analytics framework allows production managers to ensure that chiller systems operate at an optimized level of energy efficiency under dynamically changing conditions, while fulfilling the chilling demands. Compared to the commonly-used heuristics previously employed at the fab to tune chiller system parameters, by the utilization of big data analytics, it is shown that fabs can achieve substantial energy savings, greater than 12%. The developed framework and the lessons learned from the empirical study are not only generalizable but also useful for practitioners who are interested in applying big data analytics to optimize the performance of other equipment systems in fabs.     

工业数据可视分析综述

自 2013 年工业 4.0 的概念被提出以来,全世界的工业进程都飞速奔向智能制造时代。而数据感知技术的发展进一步帮助收集海量工业数据,工业信息化革新正是机遇。但是,工业数据具有规模大、维度高、结构多变和内容复杂的特性,对其进行分析是一项严峻的挑战。多变的应用场景又导致分析的灵活度要求提高,往往需要专家参与分析循环,因此可视化在工业数据分析中有了更广泛的应用。该综述首先按生产阶段及属性分别总结了工业场景下常用的数据类型;其次,根据数据属性,按时间、空间、时空结合分类,介绍了对应的可视化方法;再次,总结了可视分析在工业场景下的应用,并讨论如何合理地集成自动化分析方法以提高分析能力;最后,展望了工业数据可视分析的发展前景,并提出未来的研究方向。     

Big data and stream processing platforms for Industry 4.0 requirements mapping for a predictive maintenance use case

Industry 4.0 is considered to be the fourth industrial revolution introducing a new paradigm of digital, autonomous, and decentralized control for manufacturing systems. Two key objectives for Industry 4.0 applications are to guarantee maximum uptime throughout the production chain and to increase productivity while reducing production cost. As the data-driven economy evolves, enterprises have started to utilize big data techniques to achieve these objectives. Big data and IoT technologies are playing a pivotal role in building data-oriented applications such as predictive maintenance.In this paper, we use a systematic methodology to review the strengths and weaknesses of existing open-source technologies for big data and stream processing to establish their usage for Industry 4.0 use cases. We identified a set of requirements for the two selected use cases of predictive maintenance in the areas of rail transportation and wind energy. We conducted a breadth-first mapping of predictive maintenance use-case requirements to the capabilities of big data streaming technologies focusing on open-source tools. Based on our research, we propose some optimal combinations of open-source big data technologies for our selected use cases.     

A survey on information visualization: recent advances and challenges

Information visualization (InfoVis), the study of transforming data, information, and knowledge into interactive visual representations, is very important to users because it provides mental models of information. The boom in big data analytics has triggered broad use of InfoVis in a variety of domains, ranging from finance to sports to politics. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey and key insights into this fast-rising area. The research on InfoVis is organized into a taxonomy that contains four main categories, namely empirical methodologies, user interactions, visualization frameworks, and applications, which are each described in terms of their major goals, fundamental principles, recent trends, and state-of-the-art approaches. At the conclusion of this survey, we identify existing technical challenges and propose directions for future research.     

支持深度学习的视觉数据库管理系统研究进展

计算机视觉因其强大的学习能力,在各种真实场景中得到了广泛应用.随着数据库的发展,利用数据库中成熟的数据管理技术来处理视觉分析应用,已成为一种日益增长的研究趋势.图像、视频和文本等多模态数据的相互融合处理,也促进了视觉分析应用的多样性和准确性.近年来,因深度学习的兴起,支持深度学习的视觉分析应用开始受到广泛关注.然而,传统的数据库管理技术在深度学习场景下面临着复杂视觉分析语义难以表达、应用执行效率低等问题.因此,支持深度学习的视觉数据库管理系统得到了广泛关注.综述了目前视觉数据库管理系统的研究进展:首先,总结了视觉数据库管理系统在不同层面上面临的挑战,包括编程接口、查询优化、执行调度和数据存储;其次,分别探讨了上述4个层面上的相关技术;最后,对视觉数据库管理系统未来的研究方向进行了展望.     

Complex networks in advanced manufacturing systems

In recent years, with the rapid development of manufacturing, information, and management technology, advanced manufacturing systems (AMSs) have become increasingly more and more complex, which hinders the wider applications of many key theories and technologies in AMSs. Fortunately, in the last two decades, some dramatic advances have been made in the field of statistical physics theories, along with the extensive applications of complex network. It has provided an alternative approach to analyze AMSs. Many recent studies have focused on the theory of complex networks to describe and solve complicated manufacturing problems. Based on a great number of relevant publications, this paper presents an up-to-date literature review with the identified outstanding research issues, future trends and directions. Three critical issues are summarized after this investigation: (a) the focused areas of AMSs that have deployed the theory of complex networks, (b) the addressed issues and the corresponding approaches, and (c) the limitations and directions of the existing works.     

Business Analytics-Based Enterprise Information Systems

Big data analytics and business analytics are a disruptive technology and innovative solution for enterprise development. However, what is the relationship between business analytics, big data analytics, and enterprise information systems (EIS)? How can business analytics enhance the development of EIS? How can analytics be incorporated into EIS? These are still big issues. This article addresses these three issues by proposing ontology of business analytics, presenting an analytics service-oriented architecture (ASOA) and applying ASOA to EIS, where our surveyed data analysis showed that the proposed ASOA is viable for developing EIS. This article then examines incorporation of business analytics into EIS through proposing a model for business analytics service-based EIS, or ASEIS for short. The proposed approach in this article might facilitate the research and development of EIS, business analytics, big data analytics, and business intelligence.     

Does big data mean big knowledge? Integration of big data analysis and conceptual model for social commerce research

The Big Data era has descended on many communities, from governments and e-commerce to health organizations. Information systems designers face great opportunities and challenges in developing a holistic big data research approach for the new analytics savvy generation. In addition business intelligence is largely utilized in the business community and thus can leverage the opportunities from the abundant data and domain-specific analytics in many critical areas. The aim of this paper is to assess the relevance of these trends in the current business context through evidence-based documentation of current and emerging applications as well as their wider business implications. In this paper, we use BigML to examine how the two social information channels (i.e., friends-based opinion leaders-based social information) influence consumer purchase decisions on social commerce sites. We undertake an empirical study in which we integrate a framework and a theoretical model for big data analysis. We conduct an empirical study to demonstrate that big data analytics can be successfully combined with a theoretical model to produce more robust and effective consumer purchase decisions. The results offer important and interesting insights into IS research and practice.     

A survey on big data-driven digital phenotyping of mental health

The landscape of mental health has undergone tremendous changes within the last two decades, but the research on mental health is still at the initial stage with substantial knowledge gaps and the lack of precise diagnosis. Nowadays, big data and artificial intelligence offer new opportunities for the screening and prediction of mental problems. In this review paper, we outline the vision of digital phenotyping of mental health (DPMH) by fusing the enriched data from ubiquitous sensors, social media and healthcare systems, and present a broad overview of DPMH from sensing and computing perspectives. We first conduct a systematical literature review and propose the research framework, which highlights the key aspects related with mental health, and discuss the challenges elicited by the enriched data for digital phenotyping. Next, five key research strands including affect recognition, cognitive analytics, behavioral anomaly detection, social analytics, and biomarker analytics are unfolded in the psychiatric context. Finally, we discuss various open issues and the corresponding solutions to underpin the digital phenotyping of mental health.     

Analysis of cancer data: a data mining approach

Abstract: Even though cancer research has traditionally been clinical and biological in nature, in recent years data driven analytic studies have become a common complement. In medical domains where data and analytics driven research is successfully applied, new and novel research directions are identified to further advance the clinical and biological studies. In this research, we used three popular data mining techniques (decision trees, artificial neural networks and support vector machines) along with the most commonly used statistical analysis technique logistic regression to develop prediction models for prostate cancer survivability. The data set contained around 120 000 records and 77 variables. A k-fold cross-validation methodology was used in model building, evaluation and comparison. The results showed that support vector machines are the most accurate predictor (with a test set accuracy of 92.85%) for this domain, followed by artificial neural networks and decision trees.     

How big data analytics enables the alliance relationship stability of contract farming in the age of digital transformation

Notwithstanding the potential of big data analytics technology for alliance management, there is a lack of understanding of how such digital technology influences alliance relationship stability (ARS). Drawing on the information technology-enabled organizational capabilities (IT-enabled OCs) perspective, this study empirically verifies that big data analytics promotes ARS and risk management capability. Moreover, market risk management capability (MRM) enhances ARS, and data quality moderates the relationship between big data analytics usage (BDU) and MRM. This research reveals the impact mechanism of BDU on the ARS. Implications for management and future research are presented as well.     

Big data analytics in E-commerce: a systematic review and agenda for future research

There has been an increasing emphasis on big data analytics (BDA) in e-commerce in recent years. However, it remains poorly-explored as a concept, which obstructs its theoretical and practical development. This position paper explores BDA in e-commerce by drawing on a systematic review of the literature. The paper presents an interpretive framework that explores the definitional aspects, distinctive characteristics, types, business value and challenges of BDA in the e-commerce landscape. The paper also triggers broader discussions regarding future research challenges and opportunities in theory and practice. Overall, the findings of the study synthesize diverse BDA concepts (e.g., definition of big data, types, nature, business value and relevant theories) that provide deeper insights along the cross-cutting analytics applications in e-commerce.     

Big Data Analytics Services for Enhancing Business Intelligence

This article examines how to use big data analytics services to enhance business intelligence (BI). More specifically, this article proposes an ontology of big data analytics and presents a big data analytics service-oriented architecture (BASOA), and then applies BASOA to BI, where our surveyed data analysis shows that the proposed BASOA is viable for enhancing BI and enterprise information systems. This article also explores temporality, expectability, and relativity as the characteristics of intelligence in BI. These characteristics are what customers and decision makers expect from BI in terms of systems, products, and services of organizations. The proposed approach in this article might facilitate the research and development of business analytics, big data analytics, and BI as well as big data science and big data computing.