Algorithms for managing, querying and processing big data in cloud environments

Big data has become one of the most challenging research topics in current years. Big data is everywhere, from social networks to web advertisements, from sensor and stream systems to bio-informatics, from graph management tools to smart cities, and so forth. Cloud computing environments represent the “natural” context for such data, as they embed several emerging trends, both at the research level and the technological level, which comprise high-performance, high reliability, high availability, transparence, abstraction, virtualization, and so forth.