Dr. Florin Pop is an Associate Professor in the Distributed Systems Laboratory of the Computer Science Department at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania.Dr. Joanna Kołodziej is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cracow University of Technology, Poland. Amongst her recent publications are the Springer titles Intelligent Agents in Data-intensive Computing and Evolutionary Based Solutions for Green Computing.Dr. Beniamino Di Martino is a full Professor of Information Systems at the Second University of Naples, Italy. His publications include the Springer titles Cloud Portability and Interoperability and Smart Organizations and Smart Artifacts.

• Performance Modeling of Big Data Oriented Architectures.- Workflow Scheduling Techniques for Big Data Platforms.- Cloud Technologies: A New Level for Big Data Mining.- Agent Based High-Level Interaction Patterns for Modeling Individual and Collective Optimizations Problems.- Maximize Profit for Big Data Processing in Distributed Datacenters.- Energy and Power Efficiency in the Cloud.- Context Aware and Reinforcement Learning Based Load Balancing System for Green Clouds.- High-Performance Storage Support for Scientific Big Data Applications on the Cloud.- Information Fusion for Improving Decision-Making in Big Data Applications.- Load Balancing and Fault Tolerance Mechanisms for Scalable and Reliable Big Data Analytics.- Fault Tolerance in MapReduce: A Survey.- Big Data Security.- Big Biological Data Management.- Optimal Worksharing of DNA Sequence Analysis on Accelerated Platforms.- Feature Dimensionality Reduction for Mammographic Report Classification.- Parallel Algorithms for Multi-Relational Data Mining: Application to Life Science Problems.- Parallelization of Sparse Matrix Kernels for Big Data Applications.- Delivering Social Multimedia Content with Scalability.- A Java-Based Distributed Approach for Generating Large-Scale Social Network Graphs.- Predicting Video Virality on Twitter.- Big Data uses in Crowd Based Systems.- Evaluation of a Web Crowd–Sensing IoT Ecosystem Providing Big Data Analysis.- A Smart City Fighting Pollution by Efficiently Managing and Processing Big Data from Sensor Networks.