Special issue on Big Data Security and Intelligent Data in Clouds (BDS‐IDC)

Recently, the demands of big data combining with cloud computing have enabled dramatically growing of intelligent data in various fields. Data security issues have been considered one of the most critical aspects for the implementations of big data and cloud computing. Big Data Security and Intelligent Data in Clouds (BDS-IDC) have been immerse in people’s daily life and are promised to have a great growth in the future, such as smart data analysis, smart big data, sensitiveoriented information protection, and cloud-computing security. Multiple protection approaches and combined security schemes as well as intercrossed cloud platforms are becoming common requirements for many big data and cloud users. Considering the next generation of big data executions, it is expected to integrate big data with approaches of intelligent data in cloud systems. The main challenges of achieving this aim will go across most emerging technologies from cyber security and high performances including effective security mechanism against old and new threats, complex system architectures, computing resources allocation optimizations, distributed heterogeneous computing, energy-saving issues, and using smart data in cyber physical systems. This special issue presents a number of outstanding papers researching in the latest explorations and studies in Big Data Security and Intelligent Data in Clouds.