Development Methodologies for Big Data Analytics Systems: Plan-driven, Agile, Hybrid, Lightweight Approaches

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Manuel Mora is a full-time Professor in the Information Systems Department at the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes (UAA) Mexico. Dr. Mora holds an M.Sc. in Computer Sciences (Artificial Intelligence area 1989) from Monterrey Tech (ITESM) and an Eng.D. in Engineering (Systems Engineering area 2003) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has published over 90 research papers in international top conferences research books and journals such as IEEE-TSMC European Journal of Operational Research Int. Journal of Information Management Engineering Management Int. J. of Information Technology and Decision Making Information Technology for Development Int. J. in Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering and Computer Standards & Interface. Dr. Mora is a senior member of ACM (since 2008) an SNI at Level II and serves in the ERB of several international journals indexed by Emergent Source Citation Index focused on decision-making support systems(DMSS) and IT services systems. Fen Wang is a Full Professor in the Information Technology & Administrative Management Department at Central Washington University (CWU). Before joining CWU Prof. Wang was an Assistant Professor and Director of the Management Information Systems (MIS) program at the Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts. Prof. Wang holds a B.S. in MIS an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Prof. Wang has brought over ten years of professional and research experience in information technology management to her students. Her research focuses on intelligent decision support technologies and E-business strategies. These efforts have resulted in contributions to the applied literature on information technologies that have been well-received in the research community. Prof. Wang has published over thirty papers in internationally-circulated journals and book series including the International Journal ofE-Business Research (IJEBR) International Journal of Decision Support System Technology (IJDSST) Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT) Information Technology for Development (ITFD) and the Encyclopedia of E-Commerce E-Government and Mobile Commerce.  Prof. Wang has also consulted for a variety of public and private organizations on IT management and applications.  Prof. Dr. Jorge Marx Gómez studied Computer Engineering and Industrial Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin (Technische Fachhochschule Berlin). He was a lecturer and researcher at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (Germany) where he also obtained a Ph.D. degree in Business Information Systems with the work Computer-based Approaches to Forecast Returns of Scrapped Products to Recycling. From 2002 till 2003 he was a visiting professor for Business Informatics at the Technical University of Clausthal (TU Clausthal Germany). In 2004 he received his habilitation for the workAutomated Environmental Reporting through Material Flow Networks at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg. In 2005 he became a full professor and chair of Business Information Systems at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg (Germany). His research interests include Very Large Business Applications Business Information Systems Federated ERP-Systems Business Intelligence Data Warehousing Interoperability and Environmental Management Information Systems.   Hector A. Duran-Limon Ph.D. is currently a full Professor at the Information Systems Department University of Guadalajara Mexico. He completed a Ph.D. at Lancaster University England in 2002. Following this he was a post-doctoral researcher until December 2003. He obtained an IBM Faculty award in 2008. His research interests include Cloud Computing and High-Performance Computing (HPC). He is also interested in Software Architecture Software Product Lines and Component-based Development. In 2006 He was invited to create a Ph.D. program in Information Technologies for the University of Guadalajara becoming a member of the Academic Council.