Introduction to Big Data and Analytics: Concepts, Techniques, Methods, and Applications Minitrack

The Big Data minitrack features a number of papers addressing methods and techniques, issues and challenges, and organizational approaches to processing and managing Big Data within an organizational environment. This year . . . The Big Data minitrack has been offered at HICSS for the past four years. This will be the fifth year in which interesting papers are being presented that address key and critical issues in Big Data and Analytics. This minitrack resulted from keynote speaker presentations at HICSS-44 and HICSS-45 which described the impact that Big Data was having and would continue to have on information systems and computer science. The co-chairs have given tutorials on Big Data at HICSS-46 through HICSS-49 and are presenting two distinct topic tutorials at HICSS-50. Attendance at these tutorials (approximately 50-90 people) and at the minitrack sessions (approximately 20-40 people) has reinforced our belief that HICSS is a major venue for the presentation of Big Data and Analytics research. The co-chairs have been heavily involved in planning degree programs as well as teaching courses in Big Data at their respective universities. Two papers on issues and challenges by the co-chairs which have been published at HICSS-46 and HICSS-47 have received numerous citations according to ResearchGate.