[hpc-announce] Extended Call for Papers - Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2018)

[Zaheer Khan]

5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing,
Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2018)
December 17-20, 2018 – Zurich, Switzerland – Call for Papers

Co-sponsored by IEEE TCSC & ACM SIGARCH / in-cooperation with ACM SIGHPC

Website: http://bdcat-conference.org
Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdcat2018

Call for Full Papers
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The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing,
Applications and Technologies (BDCAT) is an annual conference series
aiming to provide a platform for researchers from both academia and
industry to present new discoveries in the broad area of big data
computing and applications. The first 4 events were held in London,
Cyprus, Shanghai, and Austin. BDCAT 2018 will be held in conjunction
with the 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud
Computing (UCC 2018) in Zurich, Switzerland.

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts on a
broad range of topics related to big data science, computing paradigms,
platforms and applications.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

I. Big Data Science

- Big Data Analytics
- Data Science Models and Approaches
- Algorithms for Big Data
- Big Data Search and Information Retrieval Techniques
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Approaches
- Machine Learning Techniques for Big Data
- Big Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices
- Big Data and Deep Learning

II. Big Data Infrastructures and Platforms

- Scalable Computing Models, Theories, and Algorithms
- In-Memory Systems and Platforms for Big Data Analytics
- Big Data and High Performance Computing
- Cyber-Infrastructure for Big Data
- Performance Evaluation Reports for Big Data Systems
- Storage Systems (including file systems, NoSQL, and RDBMS)
- Resource Management Approaches for Big Data Systems
- Many-Core Computing and Accelerators

III. Big Data Applications

- Big Data Applications for Internet of Things
- Mobile Applications of Big Data
- Big Data Applications for Smart City
- Healthcare Applications such as Genome Processing and Analytics
- Scientific Application Case Studies on Cloud Infrastructure
- Big Data in Social Networks
- Data Streaming Applications

IV. Big Data Trends and Challenges

- Fault Tolerance and Reliability
- Scalability of Big Data Systems
- Energy-Efficient Algorithms
- Big Data Privacy and Security
- Big Data Archival and Preservation

V. Visualization of Big Data

- Visual Analytics Algorithms and Foundations
- Graph and Context Models for Visualization
- Analytics Reasoning and Sense-making on Big Data
- Visual Representation and Interaction
- Big Data Transformation, and Presentation

Important Dates
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Paper submissions due (Extended): August 15, 2018
Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2018
Camera ready papers due: October 08, 2018
Early + author registration deadline: October 08, 2018
Conference: December 17-20, 2018

Manuscript guidelines
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Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may
not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point
size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including
figures, tables, and references. The proceedings will be published by
the IEEE Computer Society and will be made available online through the
IEEE Digital Library, as well as through the ACM Digital Library. 

Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format. All manuscripts will
be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical
strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, quality of
presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees.
Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the
BDCAT 2018 paper submission system
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdcat2018).

Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is
not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Further
details on the publication instructions and registration information
will be published on the BDCAT website.

Awards and Special Issues
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A selection commission chaired by the BDCAT 2018 TPC chairs will select
and acknowledge the best paper and best student paper to receive an
award during the conference.

Authors of highly rated papers from BDCAT 2018 will be invited to submit
an extended version to a special issue of a prestigious journal in the
area of big data which is currently being defined.

BDCAT 2018 Technical Programme Committee
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Xinghui Zhao			Washington State University Vancouver, USA (chair)
Richard Sinnott			University of Melbourne (chair)

(Preliminary list)

Ahmed Abdelmoamen		Prairie View A&M University, USA
Arun Agarwal			University of Hyderabad, India
Jong Hoon Ahnn			University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Samer Al-Kiswany		University of Waterloo, Canada
Ioannis Anagnostopoulos		University of Thessaly, Greece
Ashiq Anjum			University of Derby, UK
Ahsan Javed Awan		KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Rami Bahsoon		University of Birmingham, USA
Thomas Beach		Cardiff University, UK
Peter Bloodsworth		University of Oxford, UK
Jose Brito			University of Brasilia, Brazil
Rajkumar Buyya		The University of Melbourne, Australia 
Jerry H. Chang		National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan
Zhuan Chen			Microsoft
Been-Chian Chien		National University of Tainan, Taiwan
David Chiu			University of Puget Sound, USA
Pedro Contreras		The University of Warwick, UK
Jie Cui				Anhui University, China
Passent El-Kafrawy		Menoufia University, Egypt
Lee Gillam			University of Surrey, UK
Rob Gillen			Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Patrick Glauner		University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Madhu Govindaraju		SUNY Binghamton, USA
Richard Hill			University of Huddersfield, UK
Ayyaz Hussain		International Islamic University, Pakistan
Said Jai Andaloussi		Casablanca Hassan II University, Morocco
Hai Jin				Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Marc Lacoste			Orange Labs
Fabio López-Pires		Itaipu Technological Park
Andrew Stephen Mcgough		Durham University, UK
Kashif Munir			University of Hafr Albatin, Saudi Arabia
Marco Netto			IBM
Shrideep Pallickara		Colorado State University, USA
Sangmi Pallickara		Colorado State University, USA
Silvio Pardi			INFN, Italy
Kune Raghavendra		ADRIN, DOS, India
Dongwan Shin			New Mexico Tech University, USA
Alex Sim				Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Richard Sinnott		The University of Melbourne, Australia 
Varun Soundararajan	Google
Adel Taweel			King's College London, UK
Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz	University of Zaragoza, Spain
Marcello Trovati		Edge Hill University, UK
Blesson Varghese		Queen's University Belfast, UK
Daniel Waddington		Samsung Electronics
Jiayin Wang			Montclair State University, USA
Jianwu Wang			University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Justin Wozniak		Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Ramin Yahyapour		University of Göttingen, Germany
Renyu Yang			Beihang University, China
Dongfang Zhao		University of Nevada, Reno, USA

Kind regards, 
Zaheer