Computational science is crucial for delivering reliable weather and climate predictions.
However, despite decades of high-performance computing experience, there is serious …

Big Data has emerged in the past few years as a new paradigm providing abundant data
and opportunities to improve and/or enable research and decision-support applications with …

The sudden outbreak of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) swept across the world in
early 2020, triggering the lockdowns of several billion people across many countries …

The geospatial sciences face grand information technology (IT) challenges in the twenty-first
century: data intensity, computing intensity, concurrent access intensity and spatiotemporal …

Traditional gazetteers are built and maintained by authoritative mapping agencies. In the
age of Big Data, it is possible to construct gazetteers in a data-driven approach by mining …

Big Data has emerged with new opportunities for research, development, innovation and
business. It is characterized by the so-called four Vs: volume, velocity, veracity and variety …

Big Data have emerged and become the norm in the past decade with its well-known 4V
challenges and now adds value (a 5th V) for scientific research and the development of new …

As the number of computing devices embedded into engineered systems continues to rise,
there is a widening gap between the needs of the user to control aggregates of devices and …

Cyberinfrastructure integrates advanced computer, information, and communication
technologies to empower computation-based and data-driven scientific practice and …

Social media streams and remote sensing data have emerged as new sources for tracking
disaster events, and assessing their damages. Previous studies focus on a case-by-case …