Introduction to Special Issue on: Web of Things and Big Data

Abstract

This special issue of the International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems (IJCDS) focuses on Web of Things and Big Data, and publishes selected papers from the 2015 International Symposium on Web of Things and Big Data (WoTBD 2015), 18-20 October 2015, Manama, Bahrain, which was held in conjunction with the Fifth International Conference on e-Learning: Cognitively Informed Technology, October 2015, Bahrain [1]. The WoTBD 2015 Symposium included two sessions; Web of Things and Big Data Session I, and Web of Things and Big Data Session II, each session included 5 peer-reviewed papers [3-12]. The papers covered a range of topics related to the theme of Web of Things and Big Data. From these papers, seven have been selected to be submitted as extended versions in the special issue on Web of Things and Big Data in the IJCDS journal [3-9], with four papers only that have been accepted to be included in the special issue [3-6], in addition to another two papers selected from normal submission to the IJCDS journal.