Organisations adopting Big Data this way find the boundaries between private clouds, public clouds and Internet of Things (IoT) can be very thin.
Volume, variety, velocity, veracity and
value are the major factors in Big Data systems but there are other challenges to be resolved.
The papers of this special issue address a variety of issues and concerns in Big Data, including: searching
and processing Big Data, implementing and modelling event and workflow systems, visualisation
modelling and simulation and aspects of social media.