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- Big data:
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Computer science and engineering term for large and complex datasets for which special data management (collection, storage, processing, visualization), usually distributed, has to be used.
- Cloud computing:
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Computer engineering paradigm where hardware, network, and software resources are provided as services over the network.
- INSNA:
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International Network for Social Network Analysis.
- Internet of Things (IoT):
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An experimental concept of integration of real-world devices (sensors, actuators, machines) and objects (buildings, cars, trains, etc.) into Internet over standardized interfaces using unique identifiers.
- NOSQL database:
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A database implemented on some data storage model and query concept alternative to relational databases (document databases, key-value stores, graph databases, etc.). Relational databases use Standard Query Language (SQL) for queries and database operations, while NOSQL databases use other...
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Acknowledgments
This work has been partially financed by Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) within the EUROCORES program EUROGIGA (project GReGAS) of the European Science Foundation (ARRS grant number N1-0011) and by ARRS project Z7-7614 (B).
The authors would like to thank Vladimir Batagelj for valuable suggestions.
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Orbanić, A., Cerinšek, M. (2017). Tools for Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_314-1
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