Along with the accumulation of ubiquitous and incessantly generated data, Big Data have become a new popular and booming discipline based on techniques and technologies from many other disciplines.
More and more initiatives have been
presented by different organizations and governments.
A large amount of literature has been published, which facilitate and accelerate the development of Big Data. The concepts, aims and processing paradigms of Big Data are becoming more and
more explicit and distinct. A number of techniques and technologies focusing on processing Big Data have been presented
and have brought big value for organizations and users. We believe that the developments of Big Data would result to the
following achievements: