Data Science and Big Data Analytics in Smart Environments

Many applications generate large datasets, like social networking and social influence programs, smart cities applications, smart house environments, Cloud applications, public web sites, scientific experiments and simulations, data warehouse, monitoring platforms, and e-government services.

Marta Chinnici graduated in Mathematics (2004) magna cum laude at the University of Naples (Italy), where she received her PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science (2008) with a thesis on stochastic self-similar processes and applications in non-linear dynamical systems. Currently, she is a Senior Researcher at the ENEA's Department of Energy Technologies and Renewable Energy Sources, ICT Division, where she works on ICT for Energy Efficiency issues. She is a European Commission Expert in the field of ICT and a review/evaluator for several European programs on the same topic. She is Member of Technical Programme Committees of various international conferences and workshops, and Editor/Referee of relevant journals in the fields of computer science, data science and energy. To date, she authored more than 50 scientific articles and books, and presented in leading national and international conferences on ICT and energy topics.

Florin POP is professor at the Department of Computer and Information Technology, the Politehnica University of Bucharest. He also works as a 1st degree scientific researcher at National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI) Bucharest. His general research interests are: distributed systems (design and performance), grid computing and cloud computing, peer-to-peer systems, Big Data management, data aggregation, information retrieval and classification techniques, Bio-inspired optimization methods.

Cǎtǎlin NEGRU is a system engineer and researcher at the Department of Computer and Information Technology at University Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB). He obtained his PhD from UPB in 2016. His research interests include distributed systems, energy efficiency, cloud storage, cyber- physical systems, GIS. His research has led to the publishing of numerous papers and articles at prestigios journals and conferences. He is involved in several national and international research projects.

Marta Chinnici於2004年以優異成績畢業於那不勒斯大學（意大利）的數學專業，並在該校獲得數學和計算機科學的博士學位（2008年），其論文研究了隨機自相似過程及其在非線性動力系統中的應用。目前，她是意大利國家能源技術和可再生能源部門（ENEA）能源技術和可再生能源ICT部門的高級研究員，從事ICT能源效率問題的研究。她是歐洲委員會ICT領域的專家，並擔任多個相關項目的評審和評估人員。她是多個國際會議和研討會的技術方案委員會成員，並擔任計算機科學、數據科學和能源領域相關期刊的編輯和審稿人。迄今為止，她已發表了50多篇科學論文和專著，並在ICT和能源主題的領先國內外會議上發表演講。

Florin POP是布加勒斯特理工大學計算機和信息技術系的教授。他還在布加勒斯特國家研究和發展信息學研究所（ICI）擔任一級科學研究員。他的研究興趣包括分布式系統（設計和性能）、網格計算和雲計算、點對點系統、大數據管理、數據聚合、信息檢索和分類技術、生物啟發優化方法。

Cătălin NEGRU是布加勒斯特理工大學計算機和信息技術系的系統工程師和研究員。他於2016年從該校獲得博士學位。他的研究興趣包括分布式系統、能源效率、雲存儲、物聯網系統、地理信息系統。他的研究成果已在多個知名期刊和會議上發表了許多論文和文章。他參與了多個國家和國際研究項目。