Editor Vijayan Sugumaran presents students, academics, researchers, and professionals working in a variety of contexts with a survey of contemporary practices and innovations in the processing and management of big data sets via technological integration. The editor has organized the twelve contributions that make up the main body of the text in two sections devoted to semantic technologies and applications, and soft computing and decision support. Specific subjects covered include design considerations in sociomaterial multi-agent CSCW systems, influencing actions-related decisions using soft computing approaches, and others.
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