Technologies and Applications for Big Data Value

This open access book explores cutting-edge solutions and best practices for big data and data-driven AI applications for the data-driven economy. It provides the reader with a basis for understanding how technical issues can be overcome to offer real-world solutions to major industrial areas. The book starts with an introductory chapter that provides an overview of the book by positioning the following chapters in terms of their contributions to technology frameworks which are key elements of the Big Data Value Public-Private Partnership and the upcoming Partnership on AI, Data and Robotics. The remainder of the book is then arranged in two parts. The first part “Technologies and Methods” contains horizontal contributions of technologies and methods that enable data value chains to be applied in any sector. The second part “Processes and Applications” details experience reports and lessons from using big data and data-driven approaches in processes and applications. Its chapters are co-authored with industry experts and cover domains including health, law, finance, retail, manufacturing, mobility, and smart cities. Contributions emanate from the Big Data Value Public-Private Partnership and the Big Data Value Association, which have acted as the European data community's nucleus to bring together businesses with leading researchers to harness the value of data to benefit society, business, science, and industry. The book is of interest to two primary audiences, first, undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in various fields, including big data, data science, data engineering, and machine learning and AI. Second, practitioners and industry experts engaged in data-driven systems, software design and deployment projects who are interested in employing these advanced methods to address real-world problems

Water rights and related water supply issues

Presented during the USCID water management conference held on October 13-16, 2004 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The theme of the conference was "Water rights and related water supply issues."Includes bibliographical references.Proceedings sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Central Utah Project Completion Act Office and the U.S. Committee on Irrigation and Drainage.Consensus building as a primary tool to resolve water supply conflicts -- Administration to Colorado River allocations: the Law of the River and the Colorado River Water Delivery Agreement of 2003 -- Irrigation management in Afghanistan: the tradition of Mirabs -- Institutional reforms in irrigation sector of Pakistan: an approach towards integrated water resource management -- On-line and real-time water right allocation in Utah's Sevier River basin -- Improving equity of water distribution: the challenge for farmer organizations in Sindh, Pakistan -- Impacts from transboundary water rights violations in South Asia -- Impacts of water conservation and Endangered Species Act on large water project planning, Utah Lake Drainage Basin Water Delivery System, Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project -- Economic importance and environmental challenges of the Awash River basin to Ethiopia -- Accomplishing the impossible: overcoming obstacles of a combined irrigation project -- Estimating actual evapotranspiration without land use classification -- Improving water management in irrigated agricultue -- Beneficial uses of treated drainage water -- Comparative assessment of risk mitigation options for irrigated agricutlrue -- A multi-variable approach for the command of Canal de Provence Aix Nord Water Supply Subsystem -- Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis and Statistical Learning Theory II: water management application -- Soil moisture data collection and water supply forecasting -- Development and implementation of a farm water conservation program within the Coachella Valley Water District, California -- Concepts of ground water recharge and well augmentation in northeastern Colorado -- Water banking in Colorado: an experiment in trouble? -- Estimating conservable water in the Klamath Irrigation Project -- Socio-economic impacts of land retirement in Westlands Water District -- EPDM rubber lining system chosen to save valuable irrigation water -- A user-centered approach to develop decision support systems for estimating pumping and augmentation needs in Colorado's South Platte basin -- Utah's Tri-County Automation Project -- Using HEC-RAS to model canal systems -- Potential water and energy conservation and improved flexibility for water users in the Oasis area of the Coachella Valley Water District, California