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Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ----=BOUNDARY_4201818_WXKK_WTKH_RVXR_FGJX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *** Call for Papers *** 2nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing (BDC 2015) December 07-10, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus Co-located with the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2015) http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/BDC2015/ CONTEXT AND SCOPE Rapid advances in digital sensors, networks, storage, and computation along with their availability at low cost is leading to the creation of huge coll= ections of data -- dubbed as Big Data. This data has the potential for enabling new insights that can change the way business, science, and governments deliver services to their consumers and can impact society as a whole. This has led to the emergence of the Big Data Computing paradigm focusing on sensing, collection, storage, management and analysis of data from variety of sources to enable new value and insights. To realize the full potential of Big Data Computing, we need to address several challenges and develop suitable conceptual and technological solutions for dealing them. These include life-cycle management of data, large-scale storage, flexible processing infrastructure, data modeling, scalable machine learning and data analysis algorithms, techniques for sampling and making trade-off between data processing time and accuracy, and dealing with privacy and ethical issues involved in data sensing, stora= ge, processing, and actions. The International Symposium on Big Data Computing (BDC) 2015 -- held in conjunction with 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC) 2015, December 7-10, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, aims at bringing together international researchers, developers, policy makers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities, technical solutions, and results on a broad ra= nge of topics related to Big Data Computing paradigms, platforms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, and workshops. TOPICS Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of Big Data Computing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: I. Big Data Science =B7 Analytics =B7 Algorithms for Big Data =B7 Energy-efficient Algorithms =B7 Big Data Search =B7 Big Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices =B7 Visualization of Big Data II. Big Data Infrastructures and Platforms =B7 Programming Systems =B7 Cyber-Infrastructure =B7 Performance evaluation =B7 Fault tolerance and reliability =B7 I/O and Data management =B7 Storage Systems (including file systems, NoSQL, and RDBMS) =B7 Resource management =B7 Many-Task Computing =B7 Many-core computing and accelerators III. Big Data Security and Policy =B7 Management Policies =B7 Data Privacy =B7 Data Security =B7 Big Data Archival and Preservation =B7 Big Data Provenance IV. Big Data Applications =B7 Scientific application cases studies on Cloud infrastructure =B7 Big Data Applications at Scale =B7 Experience Papers with Big Data Application Deployments =B7 Data streaming applications =B7 Big Data in Social Networks =B7 Healthcare Applications =B7 Enterprise Applications One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language = of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the BDC 2015 paper submission system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dbdc2015). Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further acti= on may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the head= s of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the conference PC Chair for more information. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. There is NO student rate for the author who is responsible for registration for his/her publish= ed paper. If you have more than one accepted paper, you have to register for each one individually. There is no discount if you have two or more papers accepted. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. SPECIAL ISSUES Selected papers from BDC 2015 will be invited to extend and submit to the Special Issue on Big Data Computing in the IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing. IMPORTANT DATES =B7 Paper submissions due: 03 July, 2015 =B7 Notification of acceptance: 21 August, 2015 =B7 Camera ready papers due: 21 September, 2015 =B7 Early and author registration deadline: 21 September, 2015 =B7 Proceedings-published posters due: 28 August, 2015 =B7 Notification of acceptance: 18 September, 2015 =B7 Camera ready posters due: 21 September, 2015 ORGANIZATION General Chairs =B7 Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia =B7 George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Program Committee Chairs (bdc15-chairs@datasys.cs.iit.edu) =B7 Amy Apon, National Science Foundation, USA =B7 Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laborat= ory, USA =B7 Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Program Committee Vice Chairs =B7 Ilkay Altintas, University of California, San Diego, USA =B7 Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Program Committee Members =B7 Alexander Rasin, DePaul University, USA =B7 Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University, USA =B7 Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA =B7 Andre Luckow, BMW IT Research Center, USA =B7 Daniel Katz, University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab, USA =B7 Dongfang Zhao, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA =B7 Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA =B7 Florian Schintke, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany =B7 Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK =B7 Jaliya Ekanayake, Microsoft, USA =B7 Jessica Chen-Burger, Heriot-Watt University, UK =B7 Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA =B7 Justin Wozniak, Argonne National Lab, USA =B7 Ke Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA =B7 Kesheng (John) Wu, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA =B7 Kyle Chard, University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab, USA =B7 Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA =B7 Marco Netto, IBM Research, Brazil =B7 Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada =B7 Matei Stroila, HERE, USA =B7 Nagiza Samatova, North Carolina State University, USA =B7 Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK =B7 Paul Watson, NewCastle University, UK =B7 Peter Burnap, Cardiff University, UK =B7 Rahul Potharaju, Microsoft, USA =B7 Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago, USA =B7 Robert Ross, Argonne National Lab, USA =B7 Samer Al-Kiswany, University of British Columbia, Canada =B7 Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA =B7 Wei Tang, Argonne National Lab, USA =B7 Weidong Shi, University of Houston, USA =B7 Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida, USA =B7 Yanlong Yin, Bloomberg, USA =B7 Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA =B7 Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China =B7 Zhao Zhang, University of California, Berkeley, USA Cyber Chair =B7 Dongfang Zhao, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Local Organizing Committee Chair =B7 George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. 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*** Call for Papers ***
<= br>2nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing
(BDC 2015= )

December 07-10, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus

= Co-located with the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference
on Utility and= Cloud Computing (UCC 2015)

http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/BDC2015/


CONTEXT AND SCOPE

Rapid advances in = digital sensors, networks, storage, and computation along
with their ava= ilability at low cost is leading to the creation of huge collections
of = data -- dubbed as Big Data. This data has the potential for enabling newinsights that can change the way business, science, and governments delive= r
services to their consumers and can impact society as a whole. This ha= s led
to the emergence of the Big Data Computing paradigm focusing on se= nsing,
collection, storage, management and analysis of data from variety= of sources
to enable new value and insights.

To realize the full= potential of Big Data Computing, we need to address
several challenges = and develop suitable conceptual and technological
solutions for dealing = them. These include life-cycle management of data,
large-scale storage, = flexible processing infrastructure, data modeling,
scalable machine lear= ning and data analysis algorithms, techniques for
sampling and making tr= ade-off between data processing time and accuracy,
and dealing with priv= acy and ethical issues involved in data sensing, storage,
processing, an= d actions.

The International Symposium on Big Data Computing (BDC) 2= 015 -- held in
conjunction with 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on= Utility and Cloud
Computing (UCC) 2015, December 7-10, 2015, St. Raphae= l Resort, Limassol,
Cyprus, aims at bringing together international rese= archers, developers,
policy makers, and users and to provide an internat= ional forum to present
leading research activities, technical solutions,= and results on a broad range
of topics related to Big Data Computing pa= radigms, platforms and their
applications. The conference features keyno= tes, technical presentations,
posters, and workshops.


TOPICS<= br>
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscri= pts
that demonstrate current research in all areas of Big Data Computing= .

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

I. Big D= ata Science
· Analytics
· Algorithms for Big Data
&m= iddot; Energy-efficient Algorithms
· Big Data Search
· = Big Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices
·= Visualization of Big Data

II. Big Data Infrastructures and Platform= s
· Programming Systems
· Cyber-Infrastructure
&midd= ot; Performance evaluation
· Fault tolerance and reliability
&= middot; I/O and Data management
· Storage Systems (including file= systems, NoSQL, and RDBMS)
· Resource management
· Man= y-Task Computing
· Many-core computing and accelerators

II= I. Big Data Security and Policy
· Management Policies
·= Data Privacy
· Data Security
· Big Data Archival and P= reservation
· Big Data Provenance

IV. Big Data Application= s
· Scientific application cases studies on Cloud infrastructure<= br>· Big Data Applications at Scale
· Experience Papers wi= th Big Data Application Deployments
· Data streaming applications=
· Big Data in Social Networks
· Healthcare Application= s
· Enterprise Applications

One or more best paper awards = will be given for outstanding contributed
papers.


PAPER SUBMI= SSION

Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted= manuscripts
should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed= 10 letter size
(8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and reference= s. Authors should
submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that= the file will print
on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper= . The official language of
the meeting is English. All manuscripts will = be reviewed and will be judged
on correctness, originality, technical st= rength, significance, quality of
presentation, and interest and relevanc= e to the conference attendees. Papers
conforming to the above guidelines= can be submitted through the BDC 2015
paper submission system:

<= a href=3D"https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dbdc2015).">https://= www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dbdc2015).

Submitted papers= must represent original unpublished research that is not
currently unde= r review for any other conference or journal. Papers not
following these= guidelines will be rejected without review and further action
may be ta= ken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of
t= he institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions<= br>received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriatel= y
structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the confere= nce
PC Chair for more information.

At least one author of each pa= per must be registered for the conference in
order for the paper to be p= ublished in the proceedings. There is NO student
rate for the author who= is responsible for registration for his/her published
paper. If you hav= e more than one accepted paper, you have to register for
each one indivi= dually. There is no discount if you have two or more papers
accepted. Pr= esentation of an accepted paper at the conference is a
requirement of pu= blication. Any paper that is not presented at the
conference will not be= included in IEEE Xplore.


SPECIAL ISSUES

Selected papers= from BDC 2015 will be invited to extend and submit to the
Special Issue= on Big Data Computing in the IEEE Transaction on Cloud
Computing.

IMPORTANT DATES

· Paper submissions due: 03 July, 2015<= br>· Notification of acceptance: 21 August, 2015
· Camera = ready papers due: 21 September, 2015

· Early and author regi= stration deadline: 21 September, 2015

· Proceedings-published= posters due: 28 August, 2015
· Notification of acceptance: 18 Se= ptember, 2015
· Camera ready posters due: 21 September, 2015
=

ORGANIZATION

General Chairs
· Rajkumar Buyya, Univ= ersity of Melbourne, Australia
· George Papadopoulos, University = of Cyprus

Program Committee Chairs (bdc15-chairs@datasys.cs.iit.edu)=
· Amy Apon, National Science Foundation, USA
· Ioan Ra= icu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
· Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA

Program C= ommittee Vice Chairs
· Ilkay Altintas, University of California, = San Diego, USA
· Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK

Program= Committee Members
· Alexander Rasin, DePaul University, USA
&= middot; Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University, USA
· Abhishek C= handra, University of Minnesota, USA
· Andre Luckow, BMW IT Resea= rch Center, USA
· Daniel Katz, University of Chicago and Argonne = National Lab, USA
· Dongfang Zhao, Illinois Institute of Technolo= gy, USA
· Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA
·= ; Florian Schintke, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany
· Giuliano Cas= ale, Imperial College London, UK
· Jaliya Ekanayake, Microsoft, U= SA
· Jessica Chen-Burger, Heriot-Watt University, UK
· = Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA
· Justin Wozniak, Argonne Natio= nal Lab, USA
· Ke Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
= · Kesheng (John) Wu, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
·= Kyle Chard, University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab, USA
·= ; Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
&midd= ot; Marco Netto, IBM Research, Brazil
· Matei Ripeanu, University= of British Columbia, Canada
· Matei Stroila, HERE, USA
&middo= t; Nagiza Samatova, North Carolina State University, USA
· Paolo = Missier, Newcastle University, UK
· Paul Watson, NewCastle Univer= sity, UK
· Peter Burnap, Cardiff University, UK
· Rahul= Potharaju, Microsoft, USA
· Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Argonne Nationa= l Lab and University of Chicago, USA
· Robert Ross, Argonne Natio= nal Lab, USA
· Samer Al-Kiswany, University of British Columbia, = Canada
· Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
· We= i Tang, Argonne National Lab, USA
· Weidong Shi, University of Ho= uston, USA
· Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida, USA
&mi= ddot; Yanlong Yin, Bloomberg, USA
· Yong Chen, Texas Tech Univers= ity, USA
· Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Techno= logy, China
· Zhao Zhang, University of California, Berkeley, USA=

Cyber Chair
· Dongfang Zhao, Illinois Institute of Techno= logy, USA

Local Organizing Committee Chair
· George Angelo= s Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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