Big Data Computing

xiv Preface

optimization task and the data management approach permitting a solution

to the issue.

Chapter 16 presents an innovative outlook to the scaling of geographi-

cal space using large street networks involving both cities and countryside.

Given a street network of an entire country, the chapter proposes to decom-

pose the street network into individual blocks, each of which forms a mini-

mum ring or cycle such as city blocks and eld blocks. The chapter further

elaborates the power of the block perspective in reecting the patterns of

geographical space.

Chapter 17 presents the inuence of recent advances in natural language

processi ...