Special issue: Mobile web data analytics (part I)

It is essential to constantly collect data with various mobile applications from diverse sources, such as smartphones and ubiquitous sensors. However, how do you conduct the analysis on such a mass of mobile data or mobile web data aiming to solve issues in different areas of applications, including human behavior recognition, medication, recommendation and transportation? Nowadays, research in mobile and social computing environments is now turning to novel concepts to address the challenge of data processing and analyzing. The special issue Mobile web data analytics addresses issues of data management in mobile and social computing environments with a special focus on data processing and applications. The goal of the special issue is to build a forum for researchers from academy and industry to investigate challenging and innovative research issues on the subject, which combines data analytics within mobile and social environment and to explore creative concepts, theories, innovative technologies and intelligent solutions. We intend this special issue to act as an initial place where people from different areas can find a forum to discuss issues of data management and processing in new and emerging mobile computing environments. We accepted 11 papers that provide deep research results to report the advance of mobile web data analytics and applications. These papers are grouped into