[hpc-announce] Special issue: "Delivery and Adoption of Big Data Services in Contemporary Organizations (DoBD-2015)": Call for Papers

[OJBD Editorial Office]

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Open Journal of Big Data (OJBD) (http://www.ronpub.com/journals/ojbd)
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=========================== Call for Papers 
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Special issue: "Delivery and Adoption of Big Data Services in 
Contemporary Organizations (DoBD-2015)"
(http://www.ronpub.com/index.php/journals/ojbd/special-issues/upcoming-special-issues)
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** ABOUT OJBD
This special issue will be published in the Open Journal of Big Data 
(OJBD) (http://www.ronpub.com/journals/ojbd). OJBD, an open access and 
peer-reviewed online journal, publishes original and creative research 
results on the field of Big Data. OJBD distributes its articles under 
the open access model. All articles of OJBD are fully open access and 
online available to readers free of charge. Accepted manuscripts are 
published online immediately.

** ABOUT THIS SPECIAL ISSUE:
This special issue aims at bringing together research in the areas of 
distributed computing, systems and software engineering, high 
performance computing, and service science. This collection of 
publications is useful for academics, researchers, and practitioners 
seeking the latest practices and knowledge in these fields. Big Data has 
transformed the way many organizations work and offers added value for 
operation management and service computing. There are reported benefits 
such as agility, resource consolidation, business opportunities, and 
green IT. There are cases where organizations can improve on their 
efficiency, technical performance, and usability in using or adopting 
Big Data services due to the fusion of mature technologies such as 
virtualization, web services, information retrieval, large scale data 
processing, visualization, storage and backup, high performance 
calculations, and APIs on mobile devices and Big Data. Thus, this makes 
an interesting observation to understand what types of services are 
offered and what their contributions can provide. We are seeking papers 
to demonstrate proofs-of-concept, design and implementations, successful 
case studies, and use cases of using or adopting Big Data.

** SCOPE:
The special issue expects original and high-quality papers, including 
but NOT limited to the following topics:

- Use Cases
- Evaluation and review
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Platform as a Service
- Application as a Service
- How businesses and organizations use Big Data
- Technical implementations in healthcare, finance, or education
- Big Data services for healthcare, finance, or education
- Big Data adoption: case studies, frameworks, or models
- Simulations and experiments with reproducible steps
- Graphical Processing Unit techniques
- Big Data Storage
- New demonstrations in public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid clouds
- New business models and economics (quantitative or computational only)
- Architectures and frameworks (preferably quantitative or computational)
- Security
- Future research directions and emerging service technology innovation
- Reviews or challenges from social science, law, businesses, and 
non-ICT domains

** GUEST EDITORS:
- Dr. Victor Chang, Leeds Beckett University

** IMPORTANT DATES:
- Submission Deadline: December 31, 2014
- Author Notification: March 01, 2015

** PREPARATION & SUBMISSION:
For detailed information on the preparation and submission of 
manuscripts, please visit Author Guidelines 
(https://www.ronpub.com/index.php/journals/ojbd/author-guidelines).

** OPEN-ACCESS PUBLISHING FEES:
This special issue will be published in the Open Journal of Databases 
(OJDB) (http://www.ronpub.com/journals/ojbd). All articles of OJBD are 
fully open access and online available to readers free of charge. In 
order to support open access, OJBD has to charge a one-time publication 
fee for each accepted article. Please visit the journal webpage 
(http://www.ronpub.com/index.php/journals/ojbd/publication-fees) for 
more information.

(NOTE: The publication fee will be completely waived for accepted papers 
submitted by 31.12.2014.)

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OJBD Editorial Office
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Web: www.ronpub.com/journals/ojbd
Email: ojbd at ronpub.com