[hpc-announce] Call For Papers: IEEE HiPC BigDF'17

[Kalyanaraman, Ananth]

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IEEE International Workshop on Foundations of Big Data Computing (BigDF)
(In conjunction with HiPC 2017)
18 December 2017, Le Meridien, Jaipur, India

Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/site/hipcbigdf/

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CALL FOR PAPERS

What constitutes a “Big Data” problem? What application domains are best suited to benefit from Big Data analytics and computing? What are the traits and characteristics of an application that make it suited to exploit Big Data analytics? How can Big Data systems and frameworks be designed to allow the integration and analysis of complex data sets? How can research in Big Data Analytics benefit from the latest advances in supercomputing and High Performance Computing (HPC) architectures? The goal of this workshop is to address questions like these that are fundamental to the advancement of Big Data computing, and in the process, build a diverse research community that has a shared vision to advance the state of knowledge and discovery through Big Data computing.

Topics of interest include research contributions and innovative methods in the following areas (but not limited to):

* Scalable tools, techniques and technologies for Big Data analytics (e.g., graph and stream data analysis, machine learning and emerging deep learning methods)
* Algorithms and Programming Models for Big Data
* Big Data applications - Challenges and Solutions (e.g., life sciences, health informatics, geoinformatics, climate, socio-cultural dynamics, business analytics, cybersecurity)
* Scalable Big Data systems, platforms, services, and management
* Big Data toolkits, workflows, metrics,  and provenance.

We invite paper submissions that describe original research contributions in the area of Big Data computing, and position papers that highlight the potential challenges and opportunities that arise in Big Data computing. We also invite short papers that describe work-in-progress original research. 

Regular papers can be up to 8 pages long and short papers can be up to 4 pages long. All submissions will undergo rigorous peer-review by the technical program committee, and accepted manuscripts will appear in the HiPC workshop ("HIPCW") proceedings and will be indexed by IEEE digital library. Authors of the accepted manuscripts will be required to present their work at the workshop proceedings. 

Paper Submission link:  The paper submission opens July 1, 2017. Click on the following link for submitting your papers:  
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipcbigdf17 

Authors can submit an abstract prior to submitting the full paper for review. The abstract is not mandatory but is recommended to help organizers plan the review phase in a timely fashion (i.e., authors can submit a full paper without having submitted an abstract). However, submissions with only full papers will be reviewed. 

Organizing Committee:

General Chairs:     Dinkar Sitaram (PESIT), Ananth Kalyanaraman (Washington State University)
Program Chairs:      Madhu Govindaraju (SUNY Binghamton), Saumyadipta Pyne (IIPH, Hyderabad)
Publicity Chairs:      Arindam Pal (TCS Research)
Proceedings Chair: Ren Chen, USC (HiPC proceedings chair)
Industry Liaison:     Vivek Yadav (FullStackNet, India)

Technical Program Committee: (please see the workshop webpage for the list)

Schedule and Review Process:

 Abstract Deadline:	July 24, 2017
 Paper Submission Deadline:	 *August 1, 2017*
 Author Notification:	 September 17, 2017
 Camera-ready Paper Deadline:	 October 3, 2017
 Author Registration Deadline:	 October 16, 2017   
 Final Schedule Available:	 November 30, 2017
 Workshop Date: 	 December 18, 2017


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- Ananth Kalyanaraman

Associate Professor
Boeing Centennial Chair in CS
School of EECS
Washington State University
Pullman WA 99164-2752
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~ananth