It is now announced the Call for Papers for the second edition of the International Workshop on Modeling and Management of Big Data (MoBiD 2014), which includes topics such as Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Conceptual modeling approaches for Big Data, integration with Hadoop and MapReduce, Data Mining on Big Data, Smart Cities, etc… This year the workshop will be held in conjunction with the 33rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2014).

The Workshop will be held between 27 and 30 October 2014 in Atlanta, USA. Contributions should have a maximum of 8 pages in LNCS format.

For more information: http://www.lucentia.es/workshop/mobid14/

New Blog Lucentia

Welcome to Lucentia.

In 2008 the research group Lucentia (coordinated by Juan C. Trujillo) is created. Despite its recent creation, Lucentia group has extensive contrasted experience in high impact publications, relationships with various research groups and participation in various public and private projects. In this website you will find our research lines (business intelligence applications, data warehouses, OLAP applications, data mining, accessibility and web usability, security, etc..), publications, current projects, products offered to companies etc..

It’s official: Turing Machine is the biggest innovation

Funny how we love making lists and ranks the best of whatever. It seems the very essence of humanity, even the Hellenes chose the 7 wonders of the old world . There are more judicious and scientific using indicators contrasted such as the ranking of universities , tennis players, the most touristic countries or the top 100 movies. Most are based on statistical queries , sometimes solid sometimes informal . Every newspaper publish its ranking on hotels, phones, video games , cars , TV series , etc. .

For further information:
http://blogs.elpais.com/turing/2013/04/ya-es-oficial-la-maquina-de-turing-es-la-mas-grande-de-las-innovaciones.html

Google promotes a digital observatory to reinforce digital economy

The technology company Google, the consultancy International Financial Analysts (AFI) and the Institute of Economics of the University of Alicante have created the Observatory for the Analysis and Economic Development of Internet.

For further information:
http://www.diarioinformacion.com/vida-y-estilo/tecnologia/2013/09/27/google-impulsa-observatorio-reforzar-economia/1419809.html