This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed revised selected papers of the First Workshop on Big Data Benchmarks, WBDB 2012, held in San Jose, CA, USA, in May 2012 and the Second Workshop on Big Data Benchmarks, WBDB 2012, held in Pune, India, in December 2012. The 14 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on benchmarking, foundations and tools; domain specific benchmarking; benchmarking hardware and end-to-end big data benchmarks.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking, TPCTC 2020, held in August 2020.The 8 papers presented were carefully reviewed and cover the following topics: testing ACID compliance in the LDBC social network benchmark; experimental performance evaluation of stream processing engines made easy; revisiting issues in benchmarking metric selection; performance evaluation for digital transformation; experimental comparison of relational and NoSQL document systems; a framework for supporting repetition and evaluation in the process of cloud-based DBMS performance benchmarking; benchmarking AI inference; a domain independent benchmark evolution model for the transaction processing performance council.

Big Data has been much in the news in recent years, and the advantages conferred by the collection and analysis of large datasets in fields such as marketing, medicine and finance have led to claims that almost any real world problem could be solved if sufficient data were available. This is of course a very simplistic view, and the usefulness of collecting, processing and storing large datasets must always be seen in terms of the communication, processing and storage capabilities of the computing platforms available. This book presents papers from the International Research Workshop, Advanced High Performance Computing Systems, held in Cetraro, Italy, in July 2014. The papers selected for publication here discuss fundamental aspects of the definition of Big Data, as well as considerations from practice where complex datasets are collected, processed and stored. The concepts, problems, methodologies and solutions presented are of much more general applicability than may be suggested by the particular application areas considered. As a result the book will be of interest to all those whose work involves the processing of very large data sets, exascale computing and the emerging fields of data science

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking, WBDB 2014, held in Potsdam, Germany, in August 2014. The 13 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and cover topics such as benchmarks specifications and proposals, Hadoop and MapReduce - in the different context such as virtualization and cloud - as well as in-memory, data generation, and graphs.

This book presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Reliable Information and Communication Technology 2018 (IRICT 2018), which was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 23–24, 2018. The main theme of the conference was “Data Science, AI and IoT Trends for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” A total of 158 papers were submitted to the conference, of which 103 were accepted and considered for publication in this book. Several hot research topics are covered, including Advances in Data Science and Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Business Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT) Technologies and Applications, Intelligent Communication Systems, Advances in Computer Vision, Health Informatics, Reliable Cloud Computing Environments, Recent Trends in Knowledge Management, Security Issues in the Cyber World, and Advances in Information Systems Research, Theories and Methods.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint proceedings of the Third and Fourth Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking. The third WBDB was held in Xi'an, China, in July 2013 and the Fourth WBDB was held in San José, CA, USA, in October, 2013. The 15 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 presentations. They focus on big data benchmarks; applications and scenarios; tools, systems and surveys.

This book constitutes the thoroughly revised selected papers of the 4th and 5th workshops on Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware, BPOE 4 and BPOE 5, held respectively in Salt Lake City, in March 2014, and in Hangzhou, in September 2014. The 16 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. Both workshops focus on architecture and system support for big data systems, such as benchmarking; workload characterization; performance optimization and evaluation; emerging hardware.