Big Data's Risks and Opportunities for ICT Agriculture

Big Data is becoming a common term among researchers, who are looking for a tool to broaden their research and to improve their results because the "probable" relation between different scientific areas. But, although the term Big Data is not new, its recent application and methodologies are changing some well establish paradigms in the research area as well in the several industry applications where Big Data methodologies are used. Because of their rapid development, Big Data is also raising specific issues related to some of its core concepts. It is the aim of this paper to address these issues and to create a common background to be applied in the new NEDO project in which Sojo University is an active research member.