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What is Distributed Systems

Chapter 16
Handbook of Research on Data Science for Effective Healthcare Practice and Administration
Network of independent computers whose users utilize them as a single system connected with a middleware service.
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Overview of Big Data in Healthcare
Mohammad Hossein Fazel Zarandi (Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran) and Reyhaneh Gamasaee (Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran)
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2515-8.ch016
Abstract
Big data is a new ubiquitous term for massive data sets having large, more varied and complex structure with the complexities and difficulties of storing, analyzing and visualizing for further processes or results. The use of Big Data in health is a new and exciting field. A wide range of use cases for Big Data and analytics in healthcare will benefit best practice development, outcomes analysis, prediction, and surveillance. Consequently, the aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of Big Data in Healthcare systems including two applications of Big Data analysis in healthcare. The first one is understanding disease outcomes through analyzing Big Data, and the second one is the application of Big Data in genetics, biological, and molecular fields. Moreover, characteristics and challenges of healthcare Big Data analysis as well as technologies and software used for Big Data analysis are reviewed.
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Rough Set Based Green Cloud Computing in Emerging Markets
A collection of computers that act, work, and appear as one large computer.
Published in Chapter: Rough Set Based Green Cloud Computing in Emerging Markets; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
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BIM and Interoperability for Cultural Heritage through ICT
It is a software system where its components are distributed in different interconnected computers or devices, which communicate and coordinate their action exchanging information between them to achieve a common goal.
Published in Chapter: BIM and Interoperability for Cultural Heritage through ICT; From: Handbook of Research on Emerging Digital Tools for Architectural Surveying, Modeling, and Representation
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Digital Technologies in Dementia Care
A set of technological components that are connected through a computer network in order to achieve common goals.
Published in Chapter: Digital Technologies in Dementia Care; From: Digital Therapies in Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health
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Chapter 1
Importance of Big Data
A collection of independent machines connected by a network and equipped with software that provides the ability to machines to manage and coordinate their activities and share resources such as hardware, software and data. To the user it appears as an integrated single computer.
Published in Chapter: Importance of Big Data; From: Handbook of Research on Trends and Future Directions in Big Data and Web Intelligence
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Failure Detectors of Strong S and Perfect P Classes for Time Synchronous Hierarchical Distributed Systems
A distributed system is a collection of independent computers and software that appears to its users as a single coherent system. The software components located on networked computers communicate and coordinate with each other by passing messages in order to achieve a common goal.
Published in Chapter: Failure Detectors of Strong S and Perfect P Classes for Time Synchronous Hierarchical Distributed Systems; From: Applying Integration Techniques and Methods in Distributed Systems and Technologies
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A Strategy Towards Cost-Effective Content Delivery in the Higher Learning Institutions of Tanzania: Mobile Learning
Are systems whose components of multiple networked computers are located differently but the systems can communicate and manage their activities from each another.
Published in Chapter: A Strategy Towards Cost-Effective Content Delivery in the Higher Learning Institutions of Tanzania: Mobile Learning; From: Ubiquitous Technologies for Human Development and Knowledge Management
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