Special Issue on Big Data and Digital Transformation

The world we live in is more and more of a digital nature. Nowadays, more than ever, we are witnessing a fundamental trend technological innovations are continuously appearing and rapidly made available to everyone. These have a huge impact on people, who, for the most, easily adhere to and use them, not only in their personal lives, but also at work. At the enterprise level, easy access to global markets and new ways of working and conducting business becomes possible due to technological innovations, leading to innovative business models. Similarly, governments, municipalities and public organizations are developing new ways to reach the citizens and interact with them, in manners that were impossible to foresee a few years ago. All these changes, fueled by the continuous stream of technological innovations, are widely known as Digital Transformation. Digital Transformation embraces all society being often the cause of disruptive changes. Indeed, from smart cities and urban computing to virtual enterprises