Engineering Agile Big-Data Systems (River Publishers Series in Software Engineering)

Dr. Kevin Feeney was a senior research fellow in the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, the Information Technology Editor of Seshat Global History Databank, and leader of the ALIGNED research project. He has more than 20 years of experience in developing innovative socio-technical systems in both research and industry, including pioneering distribution of prepaid mobile phone credit through credit card networks and terminals, and developing one of the first citizen journalism platforms. He is now CEO of DataChemist.

Prof.JimDaviesisProfessorofSoftwareEngineeringandthedirectorofthe Software Engineering Programme in the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Kellogg College. His research interests include the development of automatic generation of systems from re-usable models of structure and functionality, and he is the Principal Investigator on CancerGrid, a consortium to develop open standards for clinical cancer informatics.

Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Hellmann is the head of the Knowledge Integration and LinkedDataTechnologiesgroupinUniversityofLeipzig'sAgileKnowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Group. He is also the executive director and a board member of the non-profit DBpedia Association. He focusses on semantic technology research - often in combination with other areas such as machine learning, databases, and natural language processing