Peter Wlodarczak

University of Southern Queensland 

There is increasing interest in Big Data analytics in health care. Behavioral health analytics is a care management technology that aims to improve the quality of care and reduce health care costs based capture and analysis of data on patient’s behavioral patterns. Big Data analytics of behavioral health data offers the potential of more precise an...

Big Data analytics in healthcare has become a very active area of research since it promises to reduce costs and to improve health care quality. Behavioural analytics analyses a patients behavioural patterns with the goal of early detection if a patient becomes symptomatic and triggering treatment even before a disease outbreak happens. Behavioural...

A major milestone in modern biology was the complete sequencing of the human genome. But it produced a whole set of new challenges in exploring the functions and interactions of different parts of the genome. One application is predicting disorders based on mining the genotype and understanding how the interactions between genetic loci lead to cert...

With the prevalence of wireless technologies, cloud computing and the rapid growth of deployed smart sensors in the past few years, we live in an increasingly interconnected world. These technologies have fostered the dissemination of the Internet of Things (IoT). They form the foundation for smart homes and smart cities. Context aware devices and...

Agile Software Development with Scrum

In recent years, a lot of advances have been made in data analysis using Machine Learning techniques, and specifically using Deep Learners. Deep Learners have been performing particularly well for multimedia mining tasks such as object or face recognition and Natural Language Processing tasks such as speech recognition and voice commands. This open...

Over the past decade, the use of social media (SM) such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr has dramatically increased. Using SM, millions of users are creating large amounts of data every day. According to some estimates ninety per cent of the content on the Internet is now user generated. Social Media (SM) can be seen as a distributed cont...

The significant increase in urbanization has led to cities of unprecedented sizes and densities. The trend towards mega-cities is likely to continue in the next decades and will lead to even higher concentrations of populations in urban areas. They pose challenges from an economic, social, and environmental point of view. To face these challenges,...

This paper provides an overview on Data Mining (DM) technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT has become an active area of research, since IoT promises among other to improve quality of live and safety in Smart Cities, to make resource supply and waste management more efficient, and optimize traffic. DM is highly domain specific and depend...

Bio-inspired computing is an active field of research since nature has found solutions for many real-world problems where research so far struggled to develop effective implementations. A new area of research is cyber immunity. Cyber immune systems try to mimic the adaptive immune system of humans and animals because of its capability to detect and...

Big Data is characterized by its large volumes, the velocity at which it is created and its variety. These characteristics imply that the technology to analyze it must be appropriately equipped in order to process it effectively. The technologies connote a considerable investment in hardware and software for companies and contain the risk of invest...

With the increasing digitalization of western societies, we leave more and more digital traces in countless databases. These digital information include health records, bank account information, school grades etc. and they form our social digital footprint. The digital traces of a society as a whole form what is called the social genome and its ana...

Opinion mining has rapidly gained importance due to the unprecedented amount of opinionated data on the Internet. People share their opinions on products, services, they rate movies, restaurants or vacation destinations. Social Media such as Facebook or Twitter has made it easier than ever for users to share their views and make it accessible for a...

Since the advent of Web 2.0 there has seen a shift from publisher-generated to user-created content, with the latter dominating the content available through the Internet. A significant proportion of this arises out of users who post reviews on products and services or give opinions and views on a range of topics, particularly through SM (social me...

This paper describes how personal data collected through channels like Social Media or mobile apps has given rise to a new type of application called anticipatory systems.