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Big Data Refinement

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: "Big data" has become a major area of research and associated funding, as well as a focus of utopian thinking. In the still growing research community, one of the favourite optimistic analogies for data processing is that of the oil refinery, extracting the essence out of the raw data. Pessimists look for their imagery to the other end of the petrol cycle, and talk about the "data exhausts" of our society. Obviously, the refinement community knows how to do "refining". This paper explores the extent to which notions of refinement and data in the formal methods community relate to the core concepts in "big data". In particular, can the data refinement paradigm can be used to explain aspects of big data processing?

Source: Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science

DOI: 10.4204/eptcs.209.2

Author: Eerke A. Boiten

Institution: University of Kent

Language: English

Topic: Logic, programming, and type systems

Subfield: Software

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2416579087

FWCI: 0.595

Cites: 14

Cited by: 4

Related to: 10