Università Roma Tre

In many application contexts huge volumes of data are produced which are
used in the economic-financial, political, social and even institutional
fields. Often the data is stored in huge distributed clouds and is
sometimes generated according to a continuous flow, so large as to make
complete storage unfeasible. In many cases the data pertains to entities
in close relationship with each other and gives rise to massive networks
of connections. Familiar examples for such networks are biological and
social networks, distribution networks, and the Web graph. Furthermore,
the fact that the data is stored in systems managed by third parties
poses integrity problems, which have not been considered in the
classical IT literature in terms of both their type and scale.

This scenario poses unprecedented algorithmic challenges, which are
being considered by a vast audience of researchers. In the last decade,
this effort has produced many innovations on both the methodological and
technological level. This course aims at transferring to the students
some of the most important methodological tools originated from the
research on Big Data algorithms. These methodological tools are
presented within challenging application contexts.