Description:
To be effective, data-intensive systems require extensive ongoing customisation to reflect changing user requirements, organisational policies, and the structure and interpretation of the data they hold. Manual customisation is expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone. In large complex systems, the value of the data can be such that exhaustive testing is necessary before any new feature can be added to the existing design. In most cases, the precise details of requirements, policies and data will change during the lifetime of the system, forcing a choice between expensive modification and continued operation with an inefficient design.
Engineering Agile Big-Data Systems outlines an approach to dealing with these problems in software and data engineering, describing a methodology for aligning these processes throughout product lifecycles. It discusses tools which can be used to achieve these goals, and, in a number of case studies, shows how the tools and methodology have been used to improve a variety of academic and business systems.
Keywords:
Software engineering, data engineering, big data, Semantic Web, software engineering methodology, RDF, OWL
Book Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction Download as a PDF [98KB]
Chapter 2 ALIGNED Use Cases – Data and Software Engineering Challenges by Arkadiusz Marciniak and Patrycja Filipowicz Download as a PDF [2704KB]
Chapter 3 Methodology by JamesWelch, Jim Davies, Kevin Feeney, Pieter Francois,
Jeremy Gibbons and Seyyed Shah Download as a PDF [4091KB]
Chapter 4 ALIGNED MetaModel Overview by Rob Brennan, Bojan Bozic, Odhran Gavin and Monika Solanki Download as a PDF [10755KB]
Chapter 5 Tools by Kevin Feeney, Christian Dirschl, Katja Eck, Dimitris Kontokostas,
Gavin Mendel-Gleason, Helmut Nagy, Christian Mader
and Andreas Koller Download as a PDF [23434KB]
Chapter 6 Use Cases by Kevin Feeney, Christian Dirschl, Andreas Koller, JamesWelch,
Dimitris Kontokostas, Pieter Francois, Sabina Åobocka
and Piotr Bledzki Download as a PDF [51227KB]
Chapter 7 Evaluation by Pieter Francois, Stephanie Grohmann, Katja Eck, Odhran Gavin,
Andreas Koller, Helmut Nagy, Christian Dirschl, Peter Turchin
and Harvey Whitehouse Download as a PDF [532KB]