"This book focuses on the challenges of distributed systems imposed by the data intensive applications, and on the different state-of-the-art solutions proposed

Many applications follow the distributed computing paradigm, in which parts of the application are executed on different network-interconnected computers. The e

Data-intensive systems are software applications that process and generate Big Data. Data-intensive systems support the use of large amounts of data strategical

Big Data has been much in the news in recent years, and the advantages conferred by the collection and analysis of large datasets in fields such as marketing, m

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems, Broadnet