Coetzee, Peter and Jarvis, Stephen A. (2015) Goal-based analytic composition for on- and off-line execution at scale. In: The 9th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Helsinki, Finland, 20-22 Aug 2015 doi:10.1109/Trustcom.2015.562 (In Press)

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Abstract

Crafting scalable analytics in order to extract actionable business intelligence is a challenging endeavour, requiring multiple layers of expertise and experience. Often, this expertise is irreconcilably split between an organisation’s engineers and subject matter or domain experts. Previous approaches to this problem have relied on technically adept users with tool-specific training. These approaches have generally not targeted the levels of performance and scalability required to harness the sheer volume and velocity of large-scale data analytics.
In this paper, we present a novel approach to the automated planning of scalable analytics using a semantically rich type system, the use of which requires little programming expertise from the user. This approach is the first of its kind to permit domain experts with little or no technical expertise to assemble complex and scalable analytics, for execution both on- and offline, with no lower-level engineering support. We describe in detail (i) an abstract model of analytic assembly and execution; (ii) goal-based planning and (iii) code generation using this model for both on- and off-line analytics. Our implementation of this model, MENDELEEV, is used to (iv) demonstrate the applicability of our approach through a series of case studies, in which a single interface is used to create analytics that can be run in real-time (on-line) and batch (off-line) environments. We (v) analyse the performance of the planner, and (vi) show that the performance of MENDELEEV’s generated code is comparable with that of hand-written analytics.

Item Type:	Conference Item (Paper)
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Computer Science
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Web usage mining, Data mining
Publisher:	IEEE
Official Date:	1 June 2015
Dates:	Date Event 1 June 2015 Accepted
Date of first compliant deposit:	29 May 2016
DOI:	10.1109/Trustcom.2015.562
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	In Press
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder:	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Conference Paper Type:	Paper
Title of Event:	The 9th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering
Type of Event:	Conference
Location of Event:	Helsinki, Finland
Date(s) of Event:	20-22 Aug 2015
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