Big Data Technologies and Applications

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Big Data Technologies and Applications, BDTA 2017, held in Gwangju, South Korea, in November 2017. The 15 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions and handle theoretical foundations and practical applications which premise the new generation of data analytics and engineering. The contributions deal with following topics: privacy and security, image processing, context awareness, s/w engineering and e-commerce, social media and health care.