Recent Advances in Big Data-Driven Prescriptive Analytics
A special issue of Big Data and Cognitive Computing (ISSN 2504-2289).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 4352
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Interests: big data; intelligent transport systems; XAI and Generative AI; ontology engineering
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Interests: intelligent transportation systems; applied machine learning; computer vision; mobility modeling; data mining
Interests: mobile service and platform design; application development of computational intelligence; distributed computing (edge/cloud computing)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce this Special Issue entitled “Recent Advances in Big Data-Driven Prescriptive Analytics”, which is part of the MDPI journal Big Data and Cognitive Computing.
Traditionally, descriptive analytics have been strongly associated with passive data collection activities like reporting, performance monitoring, and dashboards. In recent years, business and social practices have digitized with the evolution of new enabling technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), distributed ledger technology (DLT), and 6G, to name but a few. These supporting technologies, grounding the concept of prescriptive analytics, strive for relentless efficiency and business agility to address new revenue opportunities and to meet or exceed customer expectations through a superior experience.
The ultimate goal is to attain a new level of automation and intelligence to achieve automated end-to-end services, better known as zero-touch systems, efficiently and seamlessly, that is, to provide an adequate ecosystem of services, infrastructure, and capabilities to achieve fully integrated Self-X life cycle operations (self-serving, self-fulfilling, and self-assuring).
Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Collection and analysis of big data;
- Advanced AI for prescriptive systems (explainable AI, generative AI, etc.);
- Digital ethics for prescriptive systems;
- Big data fusion technology;
- Machine learning technologies and applications (federated learning, active learning, etc.);
- Deep learning technologies and applications;
- Zero-touch systems and architectures;
- Distributed computing for prescriptive systems;
- Intelligent transport prescriptive systems;
- Intrusion detection for prescriptive systems;
- Edge computing for prescriptive systems;
- Large language models for prescriptive models;
- Futuristic paradigms for advanced use cases: adopting blockchain, quantum computing, etc.
Prof. Dr. Sadok Ben Yahia
Dr. Amnir Hadachi
Prof. Dr. Jenq-Shiou Leu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- big data
- data-driven approaches
- advanced AI techniques
- prescriptive approaches
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