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A framework for smart transportation using Big Data
In the current era of information technology, data driven decision is widely recognized. It leads to involvement of the term 'Big Data'. The use of IOT and ICT deployment is a key player of the smart city project in India. It leads to smart transportation systems with huge amounts of real time data that needs to be communicated, aggregated, interpreted, analyzed and maintained. These technologies enhance the effective usage of smart transportation systems, which is economical and has a high social impact. Social applications like transportation can be benefited by using IOT, ICT and big data analytics to give better prediction. In this paper, we present how big data analytics can be used to build a smart transportation system. Increasing traffic and frequent jams in today's scenario are becoming a routine, citizens are facing various health issues due to the bad transportation systems such as high blood pressure, stress, asthma due to air and noise pollution. In smart transportation mobility can be easily implemented as most of the citizens use smartphones. It can be easily linked to smart traffic signals to achieve the objective of smart transportation. Smart transportation is a key component to attract companies as it leads to better services, business planning, support beneficial environment and social behavior. 2016 IEEE. -
Data Economy: Data and Money
The article explores the concept of data economy, which is based on the sharing of data across platforms and ecosystems. Data has evolved from factual information to a new asset for companies worldwide, and the article discusses its evolution from brittle paper records to complex databases and algorithms like blockchain. With a prediction of a data explosion of about 175 zettabytes by 2025, data is used extensively in various domains, from agriculture to healthcare. The article also discusses how the data economy is not domain-specific but is a universal shift as all companies transition to become technology-driven companies. The data network effect is a cycle that uses data to acquire service users and generate more data. This has become a B2B service model that has added profits to various tech giants balance sheets. The article concludes by exploring the current need for data sharing across organizations and the future scope of the data economy. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024. -
Data Security
Corporates, industries, and governments have completely digitized their infrastructure, processes, and data or running towards completed digitalization. This data could be text files, different types of databases, accounts, and networks. The data living in the digital format needs to be preserved and also protected from unauthorized access. If this data remains open for access, any unauthorized user can destroy, encrypt, or corrupt the data, making the data unusable. There are implications of data security threats such as data breaches and data spills, beyond cost and can spell doom for the business. Hence the data needs to be protected from such threats. Data security is a mechanism through which data is protected and prevented from loss due to unauthorized access. It is a mix of practices and processes to ensure data remains protected from unauthorized use and readily accessible for authorized use. Data Security is essential for achieving data privacy in general. To define appropriate security measures, we must define the difference between a data breach and a data leak. Data security mechanisms could be data-centric such as identity and access management, encryption and tokenization, and backup and recovery. A defined data governance and compliance can also ensure data security. This chapter will explain why there is a need for data security, methods and processes to achieve data security, and touch upon some of the data security laws and regulations. We will also see a case study on how hackers exploited a vulnerability to mount a data security attack worldwide and how data security mechanisms could have prevented it. 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. -
Intellectual Property Right - Copyright
The power of cognition of human beings is beyond the imagination of any cognitive person. As gifted and nurtured property, the intellect of human beings has the potential to be original, creative, and innovative. Has the human being got absolute control over her/his intellect? Can human beings possess absolute rights over any product of her/his intellect? How far is a human being indebted to society? If human beings are not given due credit to the product of her/his intellect, the enthusiasm to be more creative and productive may take a coarser path. Human beings have the fundamental right to use her/his intellect to live a life of their choice enjoying economic and non-economic benefits. The right to intellectual property is fundamental to human beings. Hence, any infringement of intellectual property has to be dealt with appropriately. At the same time, human beings should be indebted to society for nurturing their intellect. 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. -
Data Ethics
Ethics is all about living an ethical life. As rational beings, humans have always been in the pursuit of ethical life in spite of the contrary temptations. Society and engagement in society are helpful for a person to be ethical. However, it is the choice one makes in critical situations that define the ethical nature of a person. Swarmed by a vast pool of data, the complex nature of ethical decision-making is getting far more complex for human beings with autonomous cognitive faculty. One needs to be conscious and focused to face any dilemma in ones life. Dealing prudently with private and public data and understanding the science of data would help the homo sapiens to prove her/his relevance in this data-driven world. 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. -
Data and Its Dimensions
In current times Data is the biggest economic opportunity. As per the studies, it is observed that the world is becoming 2.5 quintillions data-rich every day, with an average of every human contributing 1.7MB of data per second. Every individual has a good appetite for data, as it gives immense insight to explore and expand the business. With the invention of smart devices and innovation in the field of connectivity such as 4G-5G Mobile Networks and Wi-Fi, the generation and consumption of the data are steadily increasing. These smart devices continuously generate data, leading to a bigger pool for better decision-making. This chapter presents data, the various forms and sources, and the concept of Data Science; it discusses how the ownership and value of data are decided; and also highlights the use, abuse, and overuse of the data along with data theft, and a case study to represent data breach. 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. -
Data Privacy
Data privacy is a private and public phenomenon and its operations have implications for the individual and the society. This understanding of privacy ceases it from being viewed as a simple technological process and highlights different factors that are associated with it. While on one hand, the right to privacy is seen as integral to the freedom of the individual, on the other hand, it is also seen as the ability to hide certain information for malpractice. This chapter delves into this existing dichotomy of data privacy and simplifies various terms and operations that have emerged in the field of study. A discussion is facilitated on the concept and its associated areas. The chapter looks at privacy regimes in different countries to note emerging developments and also presents a critique of the practice to bring forth shortcomings and enable change. 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. -
Challenges of Digital Transformation in Education in India
Online learning has been present since the 1960s and has risen in popularity over time. World-class universities have been using online teaching-learning methodologies to fulfill the needs of students who reside far away from academic institutions for more than a decade. Many people predicted that online education would be the way of the future, but with the arrival of COVID-19, online education was imposed upon stakeholders far sooner and more suddenly than expected. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, educational institutions began to explore digital ways to keep students studying even when they couldn't be together in person as governments enacted legislation prohibiting large groups of people from gathering for any reason, including education. The future of such a transition looks promising. However, transitioning from one mode of education to another is not easy. Historically, when educators adopt new tools, learning still continues in the conventional manner. Based on the responses of 176 students, this paper studies the challenges of Digital transformation in the Education sector. The research is extremely beneficial in evaluating the scope of societal opposition to change. 2022 IEEE. -
Emotion Detection Using Machine Learning Technique
Face Emotion Recognition (FER) is an emerging and crucial topic today; since much research has been done in this field, there are still many things to explore. In daily life, where people dont have time to fill out feedback, emotion detection plays an important role, which helps to know customer feedback by analyzing expressions and gestures. Analyzing current studies in emotion recognition demonstrates notable advancements made possible by deep learning. A thorough overview of facial emotion recognition (FER) is provided in this publication. The literature cited in this study is taken from various credible research published in the last 10years. This study has built a model for emotion recognition using photos or a camera. The paper is based on the concepts of Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL), and Neural Networks (NN). A range of publicly available datasets have been used to evaluate evaluation metrics. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024. -
Data: An Anchor for Decision- Making to Build the Future Workforce Management System
In this digital era, the change in business environments and the nature of work lead to skill gaps. Training the workforce on desired skill sets must fill these skill gaps. Data play a crucial role in identifying the skills needed and helping organizations to plan the future workforce. Data is essential for any organizations growth and success in the dynamic market. Knowing the skill set in advance allows organizations and individuals to plan the business and skill requirements well. The way work is done may be impacted by these structural changes as the world is changing swiftly. Building the abilities necessary for the uncertain environments of the present and future environments is also crucial for training the employees. However, such skills must first be acknowledged and appreciated before being developed. Empirical data must support the methodology for valuing such abilities and skills. This chapter outlines the significance of data in skill identification for individuals to be future-ready. Finding the most relevant abilities in a given environment is the first step toward their formalization and acceptance at the systems level. It also presents the importance of creating skill matrices for students and organizations. The skill matrix objectively quantifies skill value for specific occupations and the possible trajectories to acquire those skill sets. This metric will allow policymakers to navigate this fast-changing workforce landscape and focus resources to ensure that skills are needed as students transition into the workforce and have skills that enable them to transition. 2024 selection and editorial matter, Alex Khang, Sita Rani, Rashmi Gujrati, Hayri Uygun, and Shashi Kant Gupta; individual chapters, the contributors. -
A distributed randomization framework for privacy preservation in big data
The privacy preservation is a big challenge for data generated from various sources such as social networking sites, online transaction, weather forecast to name a few. Due to the socialization of the internet and cloud computing pica bytes of unstructured data is generated online with intrinsic values. The inflow of big data and the requirement to move this information throughout an organization has become a new target for hackers. This data is subject to privacy laws and should be protected. The proposed protocol is one step toward the security in case of above circumstances where data is coming from multiple participants and all are concerned about individual privacy and confidentiality. 2014 IEEE. -
Secure multi-party computation protocol using asymmetric encryption
Privacy preservation is very essential in various real life applications such as medical science and financial analysis. This paper focuses on implementation of an asymmetric secure multi-party computation protocol using anonymization and public-key encryption where all parties have access to trusted third party (TTP) who (1) doesn't add any contribution to computation (2) doesn't know who is the owner of the input received (3) has large number of resources (4) decryption key is known to trusted third party (TTP) to get the actual input for computation of final result. In this environment, concern is to design a protocol which deploys TTP for computation. It is proposed that the protocol is very proficient (in terms of secure computation and individual privacy) for the parties than the other available protocols. The solution incorporates protocol using asymmetric encryption scheme where any party can encrypt a message with the public key but decryption can be done by only the possessor of the decryption key (private key). As the protocol works on asymmetric encryption and packetization it ensures following: (1) Confidentiality (Anonymity) (2) Security (3) Privacy (Data). 2014 IEEE. -
Decoding HERO: Predicting psychological capital with subjective well-being
The positive psychology movement has gained momentum in recent years and organizations have ascribed great importance to employee well-being in light of the favorable outcomes associated with it. The widely researched Psychological Capital (PsyCap) has been consistently linked to well-being across a variety of contexts but a gap still exists in literature about what lies to the 'left' of psychological capital. The present study attempts to fill this gap by examining subjective well being components- positive and negative affect and life satisfaction, as potential antecedents of PsyCap. The Academic PsyCap questionnaire, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) and the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) were administered to participants. Results confirmed the expected associations between affect and PsyCap-positive affect positively predicted PsyCap and its four constituents whereas negative affect emerged as a negative predictor of PsyCap and its dimensions. Life satisfaction positively predicted only individuals' total hope scores. Thus, highlighting the role of subjective well-being components as antecedents of PsyCap, these findings suggest that promoting higher positive affect and lower negative affect can do more than just make individuals feel good, rather, it can bolster their reservoirs of crucial psychological resources as well. 2021 Ecological Society of India. All rights reserved. -
Impact of Expert Academic Teaching Quality and its Performance Based on BiLSTM-Deep CNN Network
Undergraduate and postgraduate students from eight different departments at a UK institution participated in organized conversations about the impact of teachers' research activities on their education. In both samples, positive responses greatly outnumbered negative ones. There was an increase in positive feedback on professors' research when the overall quantity and quality of research in a specific field (as measured by Research Assessment Exercise [RAE] ratings) improved. Undergraduate samples with higher RAE scores were more likely to have negative feedback on research than graduate student samples. Both graduate and undergraduate students agreed that lecturers' research increased the instructor's credibility, relevance, and knowledge, as well as piqued and maintained their own interest, engagement, and drive. Data processing, feature selection, and model training are the first steps in the proposed approach. The data are changed from their raw form into a form suitable for academic use during the data pre-processing phase. They are employing Information Gain and Symmetric Uncertainty for feature selection. Following the feature selection process, the models are trained using BiLSTM-CNN. Both the BiLSTM and the CNN methods are inferior to the proposed method. 2023 IEEE. -
Predicting Work Environment and Job Environment Among Employees using Transfer Learning Approach
Today's enterprises face numerous challenges as a result of the world's rapid evolution. Maintaining a content workforce is crucial to a company's success and survival in today's fast-paced business environment. The efficacy, productivity, efficiency, and dedication of the company's staff are directly associated with the company's capacity to meet the needs of its employees in the workplace. The focus of this system is to identify the factors that contribute to a satisfying work environment for the participants. Preprocessing, feature selection, and model training are the first three steps in the suggested methodology. Data mining systems should get in the habit of normalizing data as a preliminary processing step. The multiple elements assessing company culture and worker satisfaction were consolidated using Principal Components Analysis (PCA) in the feature selection phase. Once features have been selected, KNN-SVM is utilized for model training. When compared to the two most popular alternatives, SVM and KNN, the proposed technique performs better. 2023 IEEE. -
Harnessing the power of digital transformation to promote sustainable growth enabling companies and societies to build a durable and inclusive future
This chapter explores the critical role of digital transformation in fostering sustainable development across various industries. It highlights how advanced technologies such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and big data analytics enhance environmental sustainability by improving operational efficiency and enabling informed decision-making. Key issues discussed include the connections between digital transformation and environmental sustainability, as well as the challenges organizations face during implementation. The chapter includes case studies demonstrating the successful use of digital technologies to address environmental challenges like air and water pollution and promote resource conservation. It emphasizes the importance of ethical leadership and stakeholder engagement in guiding digital initiatives toward genuine sustainability goals. Finally, the chapter presents a comprehensive framework for leveraging digital transformation to encourage sustainable behaviors and achieve global sustainability objectives. 2025, IGI Global Scientific Publishing. All rights reserved.