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CFP : Autonomic Clouds 2013, Dresden, Germany
by Ashiq Anjum 22 Aug '13

22 Aug '13

The 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Techniques and Architectures for Autonomic Clouds (ITAAC 2013) http://www.derby.ac.uk/computing/itaac2013 In association with The 6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2013), December 9-12, 2013, Dresden, Germany Call for Papers Autonomic computing refers to principles and techniques for designing, building, deploying and managing computing systems with minimal human involvement. An autonomic system should be capable of adapting its behaviour to suit its context of use through methods of self-management, self-tuning, self-configuration, self-diagnosis, and self-healing. Autonomic approaches are particularly suitable for use in Cloud Computing systems, where rapid scalability is required across a pool of resources to support various unpredictable demands, and where the system should automatically adapt to avoid failures in the underlying hardware impacting on the user experience. Autonomic Clouds emerge as a result of applying autonomic computing techniques to Cloud Computing, resulting into robust, fault tolerant and easy to manage and operate cloud architectures and deployments. The application of intelligent approaches to Autonomic Clouds is gaining prominence in research and industry. Such intelligent approaches include evolutionary techniques, multi-objective and combinational optimization heuristics, genetic algorithms, neural networks, swarm intelligence, and multi-agents systems. Application of these intelligent approaches to Clouds can improve how computing systems and applications are built, used, managed and optimized, maximizing the benefits for users, applications and systems by reducing the operational, maintenance and usage costs of clouds. The interplay of intelligent approaches and Clouds offers numerous challenges. The international workshop on Intelligent Techniques and Architectures for Autonomic Clouds (ITAAC 2013) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners across Cloud Computing, Intelligent Systems, and Autonomic Computing to discuss issues at the intersection of these disciplines. Key questions to be addressed include: How do emerging cloud architectures satisfy or contradict the vision of autonomic computing? How does the vision of autonomic computing satisfy the vision of self managing and self healing clouds? How do contemporary and emerging intelligent techniques support and enable both of these? Academics, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original work on the theory and practice of intelligent and autonomic clouds. Key topics Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Theory and foundations of Intelligent Clouds * Quality of Service and Intelligent Clouds * (auto)scaling of Clouds * Self-organizing, self-healing and self-managing Cloud systems * Intelligent deployment, configuration and maintenance approaches for Clouds * Agent based techniques for Clouds * Adaptive and Evolutionary Approaches for Clouds * Intelligent Cloud Workflows, Planning and Scheduling * Intelligent Cloud Resource Management and Discovery in Clouds * Autonomic Clouds of Sensors * Intelligent Management and Monitoring for Clouds * Intelligent approaches to Cloud Service Level Agreement satisfaction * Applications, Toolkits and frameworks for Intelligent and Autonomic Clouds * Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis due to Clouds Submissions that offer position statements, theoretical and industrial perspectives, lessons learned, comparisons, evaluations and technical contributions to intelligent autonomic clouds are also welcome. Paper submission guidelines All papers must be submitted electronically and in PDF format. The material presented should be original and not published or under submission elsewhere. Authors should submit full papers of up to 6 pages, following strictly the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript style<http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting>, using two-column, single-space format, with 10-point font size. Figures and references must be included in the 6 pages. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register early to attend the conference, in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. The proceedings will be published and will be made online through the IEEE Xplore. All papers should be submitted online using EasyChair submission system https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=itaac2013 High quality articles will be invited to become part of the Journal of Cloud Computing Advances, Systems and Applications (JoCCASA) Workshop Chairs * Professor Nick Antonopoulos, University of Derby, UK Email: n.antonopoulos(a)derby.ac.uk<mailto:n.antonopoulos@derby.ac.uk> * Dr Ashiq Anjum , University of Derby, UK Email: a.anjum(a)derby.ac.uk<mailto:a.anjum@derby.ac.uk> * Dr Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, UK Email: l.gillam(a)surrey.ac.uk<mailto:l.gillam@surrey.ac.uk>. Programme Committee * Antonio Liotta, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands * Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA * Richard McClatchey, UWE Bristol, UK * Morris Riedel, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany * Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia * David Wallom, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK * Jianxin Li, Beihang University, China * Kurt Stockinger, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland * Adel Taweel, Kings College London, UK * Fatos Xhafa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain * Daniel S. Katz, Computation Institute, University of Chicago, USA * Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania * Richard Hill, University of Derby, UK * Muhammad Atif, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia * Lu Liu, University of Derby, UK * Peter Bloodsworth, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan * Saad Liaquat Kiani, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK * Silvio Pardi, University of Naples, Naples, Italy * Zaheer Khan, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK * Liangmin Wang, Jiangsu University, China * Taimoor Khan, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Important Dates * Manuscript Submission Due: 31 August 2013 * Notification of Acceptance: 10 September 2013 * Final Manuscript Due: 27 September 2013 * Author Registration Due: 27 September 2013 * Conference Dates: 9 - 12 December 2013

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Extended CFP: BDSE2013 (Big Data Science and Engineering), 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia
by Chang Liu 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

As requested by some authors still, the final deadline for submission is extended to 30 August 2013. But this is firm, no more extension. CFP: The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE2013), 3-5 December 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: August 30, 2013 (firm) Authors Notification: September 25, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2013 Conference: 3-5 December 2013 Submissions: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/submission.htm Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (special issue on Big Data). ------------ Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. Distributed systems is a classical research discipline investigating various distributed computing technologies and applications such as cloud computing and MapReduce. With new paradigms and technolog! ies, distributed systems research keeps going with new innovative outcomes from both industry and academia. For example, wide deployment of MapReduce is a distributed programming paradigm and an associated implementation to support distributed computing over large datasets on cloud. BDSE (Big Data Science and Engineering) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data, Distributed Systems and broadly related areas. BDSE 2013 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences, previously held as BigDataMR-12 (Xiangtan, China November 2012), AHPCN-12 (Bradford, UK, June 2012), AHPCN-11 (Banff, Canada, September 2011), AHPCN-10 (Melbourne, Australia, September 2010), AHPCN-09 (Seoul, Korea, June 2009), AHPCN-08 (Dalian, China, September 2008). Scope and Topics The objective of the conference is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of big data and distributed computing. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: - Big Data theory, applications and challenges - Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce - Big Data Infrastructure and Cloud Computing - Big Data mining and analytics - Big Data visualization - Large data stream processing on cloud - Large incremental datasets on cloud - Distributed and federated datasets - NoSQL data stores and DB scalability - Big Data sharing and privacy preserving - Security, trust and risk in Big Data - Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization - Extension of the MapReduce programming model - Distributed file systems for Big Data - MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA - MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments - Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization - Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools - Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data - Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce - Storage and computation management of Big Data - Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing - Algorithms and theory for distributed systems - Data management and distributed data systems - Security, privacy, fault tolerance and reliability in distributed systems - Distributed ad hoc, ubiquitous and pervasive systems - Mobile systems and development for handheld devices such as mobile phones - Distributed system architectures and software such as runtime systems, multicore programming languages, performance modelling and evaluation, programming environments and tools, and etc. - Distributed computing applications such as management of big data, scientific applications, social media applications, web applications and mobile computing Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the BDSE2013 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/submission.htm. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2013 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia General Vice Chairs Jiannong Cao, Poly. University Hong Kong, China Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Workshop Chairs Rajiv Rajan, CSIRO, Australia Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Steering Committee Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

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CFP: IEEE CIT2013 (Computer and Information Technology), Sydney, Austalia, 3-5 Dec. 2013
by Chang Liu 17 Aug '13

17 Aug '13

As requested, submission deadline has been extended to 30 August 2013 (firm). CIT2013 - The 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cit2013/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 30, 2013 (extended, firm) Authors Notification: September 25, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2013 Submission website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cit2013/submission.htm Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: Distinguised papers will be recommeded to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. Topics (not limited to): *Track 1. Information Technology* - Image, Video, Audio, Documents - Databases, Indexing - Coding, Compression - Cryptography, Watermarking, Networks and Security - E-Government, E-Commerce, E-learning - Software Engineering - Semantic Web, Knowledge Management - Metamodeling, Domain-Specific Modeling, Aspect-Oriented Modeling - Model Transformation, Model Composition *Track 2. Computer Science* - Numerical Algorithms and Analysis - Computational Simulation and Analysis - Data Visualization and Virtual Reality - Scientific and Engineering Computing - Parallel and Distributed Computing - Grid Computing and Cluster Computing - Embedded and Network Computing - Algorithms and Data Structures - Programming Language Theory - Concurrent, Parallel and Distributed Systems - Computational Science - Health Informatics *Track 3. Signal Processing* - Signal Processing Theory and Methods - Signal Processing for Communications and Networking - Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems - Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing - Signal Processing Education - Audio Signal Processing - Speech and Spoken Language Signal Processing - Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing - Multimedia Signal Processing *Track 4. CPS and Internet of things* - Access Network Technologies - Network, Communication Systems and System Architectures - Risk, Security and privacy - Location, Searching and Discovery - Real-time Communication and Collaboration for Smart things - Sensor Networking Technologies (e.g., RFID, WSN) - Web of Things - CPS(Cyber, Physical and Social) Technologies - Modeling and Simulation tools and Technologies - Case Studies in Areas of Smart Grid, Healthcare, Agriculture, Logistics, Environmental monitoring and Transport, etc - Emerging IoT Business Models and Process Changes - Social Networking and Computing - Education *Track 5. Reliability, Security, Privacy and Trust* - Information and System Security - Reliable Computing - Trusted Computing - Network Security and Privacy *Track 6. Applications, Business and Social Issues* - Business Ontologies and Models - Digital Goods and Services - Electronic Service Delivery - E-Marketing - Languages for Describing Goods and Services - Online Auctions and Technologies - Virtual Organizations and Teleworking *Track 7. Database and Data Mining* - Feature Selection and Feature Extraction - Temporal and Spatial Data Mining - Sequential Data Mining - Stream Data Mining - Social Network Mining - Web Mining - Text, Graph, Video, Multimedia Data Mining - High Performance Data Mining Algorithms - Knowledge Discovery - Databases and Data Mining Applications *Track 8. Microwave and radar * - Cognitive Radar - Compressive Sensing - Knowledge Based or Aided Method - High Resolution Method - Target Detection and Recognition *Track 9. System Software and Software Engineering* - Software Architectures and Design for Emerging Systems - Software Engineering for Emerging Networks and Systems - System Software for Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems - Software Engineering for Mobile Systems - Service Oriented Architectures - Rapid Application Development for Mobile, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Systems - Software Processes for Emerging Computer Systems - Project Management for Emerging Computer Systems *Track 10. Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence* - Statistical and Structural Pattern Recognition - Machine Learning and Data Mining - Applications of Pattern Recognition - Computer Vision - Image Recognition, Analysis, Understanding, and Processing - Multimedia and Document Analysis, Processing and Retrieval - Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction - Pattern Recognition Theory and Methods - Evolutionary Computation - Multidisciplinary Artificial Intelligence *Track 11. Information Technology in Biomedicine* - Wireless E-healthcare - Cyber-physical System in Healthcare Domain - E-health Security - Smartphone Applications for E-healthcare - Wireless Body Area Networks - Telemedicine - Medical Data Collections - Other Related Topics *Track 12. Wireless Communications* - Information Theory - Multimedia Signal Processing - Cross Layer Optimization in Wireless Networks - Cognitive Radio, Ultra-wideband - Multihop and Cooperative Communications - Modulation, Coding, Diversity - OFDM, CDMA, Spread Spectrum - MIMO Systems and Smart Antennas - Signal Processing in Body Area Networks - Wireless Emergency and Security Systems *Track 13. Mobile Multimedia Communications* - Resource Allocation and Joint Source-channel Coding for Wireless Multimedia - Wireless Multimedia Relays Networks and Cooperative Communications - Rate Control and Coding Algorithms for Mobile Wireless Video Communications - Multimedia over Cognitive Radio Networks - Multimedia over Wireless Ad-hoc and P2P Networks - QoS Signaling and Protocols for Mobile Wireless Multimedia - Mobility and Multimedia Data Traffic Modeling - Mobile Multimedia Test-beds And Related Research Infrastructures - Multimedia Digital Signal Processing for Mobile Healthcare - Multimedia Security Issues over Mobile and Wireless Networks - Multimedia in Mobile Computing: Issues, System Design, and Performance Evaluation SubmissionGuidelines Submissions mustinclude an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CIT2013 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cit2013/submission.htm. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. General Chair Mohammed Bennamoun, The University of Western Australia, Australia Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Program Vice Chairs Bahman Javadi, The University of Western Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Chadi Aoun, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Steering Committee Daming Wei (Chair), Professor Emeritus, University of Aizu, Japan Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Goutam Chakrabarty, Iwate Prefectura lUniversity, Japan Hai Jin, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China Xiangjian He, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Chunming Qiao, The State University of New York, USA Chang-Sung Jeong, Korea University, Korea Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Xingang Liu, ESTC, China Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Bofeng Zhang, Shanghai University, China Workshop Chairs Shuangxi Huang, Tsinghua University, China Jyh-haw Yeh, Boise State University, USA Ji Zhang, The University of Southern Queensland, Australia

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CFP: MR.BDI2013 - The 2013 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2013, Sydney, Australia.
by Sean Zhang 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

CFP: MR.BDI2013 - The 2013 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/ Key dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: August 25, 2013 Notification of Acceptance: September 22, 2013 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2013 Registration Due: October 15, 2013 Submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2013 Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: Distinguished papers will be recommended to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. Topics (not limited to): · Challenges and Opportunities in MapReduce based Big Data Tools and Applications · Recent Development in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Developping, Debugging and Testing Issues of MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Performace Tuning and Optimization for MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Benchmarking, Evaluation, Simulation for MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Iterative / Recursive MapReduce Systems · Computational Theory for MapReduce based Systems · Extension of the MapReduce Programming Paradigm · Distributed File Systems for MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools · Algorithm Analysis and Design with MapReduce Paradigm · Resource Scheduling and SLA of MapReduce for Multiple Users · Heterogeneity and Fault-tolerance in MapReduce based Systems and Big Data Infrastructure · Privacy, Security, Trust and Risk in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Integration of MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools with Cloud / Grid Systems · MapReduce in Hybrid / Fabricated / Federated Cloud Systems · Social Networks Analyses with MapReduce · Data Mining, Analytics, and Visualization using MapReduce · Big Stream / Incremental Data Processing using MapReduce · Big Scientific, Genomic and Healthcare Data Processing with MapReduce · Industrial Experience and Use Cases of MapReduce based Applications · Recent Development Open Source Big Data Infrastructure Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the MR.BDI2013 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2013. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2013 and attend the conference to present the paper. General Chairs Albert Y. Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia Geoffrey Charles Fox, Indiana University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (xyzhanggz(a)gmail.com ) Suraj Pandey, IBM Australia Research Lab, Australia (suraj.pandey(a)au.ibm.com ) Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia (surya.nepal(a)csiro.au)

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CFP: BDSE2013 (Big Data Science and Engineering), 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia
by Chang Liu 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

CFP: The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE2013), 3-5 December 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: August 18, 2013 Authors Notification: September 25, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2013 Conference: 3-5 December 2013 Submissions: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/submission.htm Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (special issue on Big Data). ------------ Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. Distributed systems is a classical research discipline investigating various distributed computing technologies and applications such as cloud computing and MapReduce. With new paradigms and technolog! ies, distributed systems research keeps going with new innovative outcomes from both industry and academia. For example, wide deployment of MapReduce is a distributed programming paradigm and an associated implementation to support distributed computing over large datasets on cloud. BDSE (Big Data Science and Engineering) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data, Distributed Systems and broadly related areas. BDSE 2013 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences, previously held as BigDataMR-12 (Xiangtan, China November 2012), AHPCN-12 (Bradford, UK, June 2012), AHPCN-11 (Banff, Canada, September 2011), AHPCN-10 (Melbourne, Australia, September 2010), AHPCN-09 (Seoul, Korea, June 2009), AHPCN-08 (Dalian, China, September 2008). Scope and Topics The objective of the conference is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of big data and distributed computing. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: - Big Data theory, applications and challenges - Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce - Big Data Infrastructure and Cloud Computing - Big Data mining and analytics - Big Data visualization - Large data stream processing on cloud - Large incremental datasets on cloud - Distributed and federated datasets - NoSQL data stores and DB scalability - Big Data sharing and privacy preserving - Security, trust and risk in Big Data - Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization - Extension of the MapReduce programming model - Distributed file systems for Big Data - MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA - MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments - Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization - Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools - Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data - Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce - Storage and computation management of Big Data - Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing - Algorithms and theory for distributed systems - Data management and distributed data systems - Security, privacy, fault tolerance and reliability in distributed systems - Distributed ad hoc, ubiquitous and pervasive systems - Mobile systems and development for handheld devices such as mobile phones - Distributed system architectures and software such as runtime systems, multicore programming languages, performance modelling and evaluation, programming environments and tools, and etc. - Distributed computing applications such as management of big data, scientific applications, social media applications, web applications and mobile computing Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the BDSE2013 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/submission.htm. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2013 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia General Vice Chairs Jiannong Cao, Poly. University Hong Kong, China Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Workshop Chairs Rajiv Rajan, CSIRO, Australia Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Steering Committee Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

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CFP: IEEE ICESS2013 (Embedded Software and Systems), Sydney, Australia, 3-5 Dec. 2013
by Sean Zhang 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

Call for papers: ICESS2013 - The 10th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/icess2013/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 30, 2013 (extended, firm) Authors Notification: September 25, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2013 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/icess2013/submission.htm Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: Distinguised papers will be recommeded to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. ---------- Introduction Embedded software and systems are closely related to our daily life, which reside from smart appliances to unmanned trains. As the fastest growing industry, embedded systems will have great societal and environmental impacts. Therefore, the design and implementation of safe and efficient embedded software and systems have utmost importance. ICESS2013 will be held on December 3-5, 2013 in Sydney, Australia. The goal of IEEE ICESS2013 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-progress on all aspects of embedded software and systems. Topics (not limited to): *Track 1. Systems, Models and Algorithms Track* - Embedded Real-Time Systems - Embedded Hardware and Architectures - Embedded Software/Agent - Power Aware Computing - Distributed Embedded Computing - Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing - Fault Tolerant & Trusted Embedded Systems - System on Chip (SoC) and Multicore Systems - Embedded Real-Time Operating Systems - Mobile Computing - Reconfigurable Computing - Cyber-Physical Systems *Track 2. Design Methodology and Tools Track* - Hardware/Software Co-Design - Formal Methods for Embedded Systems - Embedded Component Technology - Middleware for Embedded Systems - Hardware/Software Co-Verification - Compilation and Debug Techniques - IDE and Software Tools - Performance Evaluation Techniques/Tools *Track 3. Embedded Applications and Interdisciplinary Topics Track* - Intelligent Embedded Systems - Image and Graph Processing - Network Protocol and Security - Emergency and Disaster Management - Wireless Sensor Networks - Robotics and Control Systems - QoS Support for Embedded Systems - Embedded Database & Multimedia Systems - Consumer Electronics - Automotive, Medical and Avionics Systems Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the ICESS2013 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/icess2013/submission.htm. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. General Chairs Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Marco Di Natale, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Steering Committee Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Zhaohui Wu (Chair), Zhejiang University, China Yann-Hang Lee, Arizona State University, USA Xiangke Liao, National University of Defence Technology, China Edwin Sha, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Zili Shao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Xingshe Zhou, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Program Chairs Xiaorong Li, A*STAR, Singapore Chin-Feng Lai, National llan University, Taiwan Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Program Vice Chairs Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China Jian Wu, Zhejiang University, China Supeng Leng, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Workshop Chairs Khaled M. Khan, Qatar University, Qatar Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Lie-Huang Zhu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

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CFP: IEEE CSE2013 (Computational Science and Engineering), Sydney, Australia, 3-5 Dec. 2013
by Sean Zhang 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

CFP: CSE2013 - The 16th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cse2013/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 18, 2013 Authors Notification: September 25, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2013 Submission website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cse2013/submission.htm Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: Distinguised papers will be recommeded to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. Topics (not limited to): · Intelligent andBio-inspired Computing · Distributed and Parallel Computing · Database and Data Mining · Cluster, Grid, P2P and Cloud Computing · Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications · CSE Education · Scientific and Engineering Computing · Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing · Advanced Networking and Applications · Security, Privacy and Trust · Service and Internet Computing - Dependable, Reliable and Autonomic Computing · CSE applications to the following areas, but not limited to: computational fluid dynamics and mechanics; material sciences; computational chemistry; space, weather, climate systems and global changes; computational environment and energy systems; computational ocean and earth sciences; combustion system simulation; computational physics; bioinformatics and computational biology; medical applications; transportation systems simulations; combinatorial and global optimization problems; structural engineering; computational electro-magnetic; computer graphics and multimedia; semiconductor technology and electronic circuits and system design; dynamic systems; computational finance; data mining; signal and image processing, etc. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CSE2013 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cse2013/submission.htm. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. General Chairs Ai-bing Yu,The University of New South Wales, Australia Sotirios G. Ziavras, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Steering Committee Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St Francis Xavier University, Canada Hai-xiang Lin, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Rodrigo F. de Mello, ICMC, University of São Paulo, Brazil Keqiu Li, Dalian University of Technology, China Program Chairs Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Luc Giraud, INRIA, France Workshop Chairs Ruppa K. Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Yanzhen Qu, Colorado Technical University, USA Myungho Lee, Myong Ji University, Korea Kaijun Ren, National University of Defence Technology, China

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CFP: CIT2013 (Computer and Information Technology), Sydney, Austalia, 3-5 Dec. 2013
by Sean Zhang 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

As requested by many authors, submission deadline has been extended to 30 August 2013 (firm). CIT2013 - The 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cit2013/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 30, 2013 (extended, firm) Authors Notification: September 25, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2013 Submission website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cit2013/submission.htm Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: Distinguised papers will be recommeded to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. Topics (not limited to): *Track 1. Information Technology* - Image, Video, Audio, Documents - Databases, Indexing - Coding, Compression - Cryptography, Watermarking, Networks and Security - E-Government, E-Commerce, E-learning - Software Engineering - Semantic Web, Knowledge Management - Metamodeling, Domain-Specific Modeling, Aspect-Oriented Modeling - Model Transformation, Model Composition *Track 2. Computer Science* - Numerical Algorithms and Analysis - Computational Simulation and Analysis - Data Visualization and Virtual Reality - Scientific and Engineering Computing - Parallel and Distributed Computing - Grid Computing and Cluster Computing - Embedded and Network Computing - Algorithms and Data Structures - Programming Language Theory - Concurrent, Parallel and Distributed Systems - Computational Science - Health Informatics *Track 3. Signal Processing* - Signal Processing Theory and Methods - Signal Processing for Communications and Networking - Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems - Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing - Signal Processing Education - Audio Signal Processing - Speech and Spoken Language Signal Processing - Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing - Multimedia Signal Processing *Track 4. CPS and Internet of things* - Access Network Technologies - Network, Communication Systems and System Architectures - Risk, Security and privacy - Location, Searching and Discovery - Real-time Communication and Collaboration for Smart things - Sensor Networking Technologies (e.g., RFID, WSN) - Web of Things - CPS(Cyber, Physical and Social) Technologies - Modeling and Simulation tools and Technologies - Case Studies in Areas of Smart Grid, Healthcare, Agriculture, Logistics, Environmental monitoring and Transport, etc - Emerging IoT Business Models and Process Changes - Social Networking and Computing - Education *Track 5. Reliability, Security, Privacy and Trust* - Information and System Security - Reliable Computing - Trusted Computing - Network Security and Privacy *Track 6. Applications, Business and Social Issues* - Business Ontologies and Models - Digital Goods and Services - Electronic Service Delivery - E-Marketing - Languages for Describing Goods and Services - Online Auctions and Technologies - Virtual Organizations and Teleworking *Track 7. Database and Data Mining* - Feature Selection and Feature Extraction - Temporal and Spatial Data Mining - Sequential Data Mining - Stream Data Mining - Social Network Mining - Web Mining - Text, Graph, Video, Multimedia Data Mining - High Performance Data Mining Algorithms - Knowledge Discovery - Databases and Data Mining Applications *Track 8. Microwave and radar * - Cognitive Radar - Compressive Sensing - Knowledge Based or Aided Method - High Resolution Method - Target Detection and Recognition *Track 9. System Software and Software Engineering* - Software Architectures and Design for Emerging Systems - Software Engineering for Emerging Networks and Systems - System Software for Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems - Software Engineering for Mobile Systems - Service Oriented Architectures - Rapid Application Development for Mobile, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Systems - Software Processes for Emerging Computer Systems - Project Management for Emerging Computer Systems *Track 10. Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence* - Statistical and Structural Pattern Recognition - Machine Learning and Data Mining - Applications of Pattern Recognition - Computer Vision - Image Recognition, Analysis, Understanding, and Processing - Multimedia and Document Analysis, Processing and Retrieval - Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction - Pattern Recognition Theory and Methods - Evolutionary Computation - Multidisciplinary Artificial Intelligence *Track 11. Information Technology in Biomedicine* - Wireless E-healthcare - Cyber-physical System in Healthcare Domain - E-health Security - Smartphone Applications for E-healthcare - Wireless Body Area Networks - Telemedicine - Medical Data Collections - Other Related Topics *Track 12. Wireless Communications* - Information Theory - Multimedia Signal Processing - Cross Layer Optimization in Wireless Networks - Cognitive Radio, Ultra-wideband - Multihop and Cooperative Communications - Modulation, Coding, Diversity - OFDM, CDMA, Spread Spectrum - MIMO Systems and Smart Antennas - Signal Processing in Body Area Networks - Wireless Emergency and Security Systems *Track 13. Mobile Multimedia Communications* - Resource Allocation and Joint Source-channel Coding for Wireless Multimedia - Wireless Multimedia Relays Networks and Cooperative Communications - Rate Control and Coding Algorithms for Mobile Wireless Video Communications - Multimedia over Cognitive Radio Networks - Multimedia over Wireless Ad-hoc and P2P Networks - QoS Signaling and Protocols for Mobile Wireless Multimedia - Mobility and Multimedia Data Traffic Modeling - Mobile Multimedia Test-beds And Related Research Infrastructures - Multimedia Digital Signal Processing for Mobile Healthcare - Multimedia Security Issues over Mobile and Wireless Networks - Multimedia in Mobile Computing: Issues, System Design, and Performance Evaluation SubmissionGuidelines Submissions mustinclude an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CIT2013 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cit2013/submission.htm. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. General Chair Mohammed Bennamoun, The University of Western Australia, Australia Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Program Vice Chairs Bahman Javadi, The University of Western Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Chadi Aoun, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Steering Committee Daming Wei (Chair), Professor Emeritus, University of Aizu, Japan Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Goutam Chakrabarty, Iwate Prefectura lUniversity, Japan Hai Jin, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China Xiangjian He, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Chunming Qiao, The State University of New York, USA Chang-Sung Jeong, Korea University, Korea Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Xingang Liu, ESTC, China Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Bofeng Zhang, Shanghai University, China Workshop Chairs Shuangxi Huang, Tsinghua University, China Jyh-haw Yeh, Boise State University, USA Ji Zhang, The University of Southern Queensland, Australia

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CFP: MR.BDI2013 - The 2013 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2013, Sydney, Australia.
by Sean Zhang 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

CFP: MR.BDI2013 - The 2013 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/ Key dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: August 25, 2013 Notification of Acceptance: September 22, 2013 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2013 Registration Due: October 15, 2013 Submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2013 Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: Distinguished papers will be recommended to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. Topics (not limited to): · Challenges and Opportunities in MapReduce based Big Data Tools and Applications · Recent Development in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Developping, Debugging and Testing Issues of MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Performace Tuning and Optimization for MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Benchmarking, Evaluation, Simulation for MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Iterative / Recursive MapReduce Systems · Computational Theory for MapReduce based Systems · Extension of the MapReduce Programming Paradigm · Distributed File Systems for MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools · Algorithm Analysis and Design with MapReduce Paradigm · Resource Scheduling and SLA of MapReduce for Multiple Users · Heterogeneity and Fault-tolerance in MapReduce based Systems and Big Data Infrastructure · Privacy, Security, Trust and Risk in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Integration of MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools with Cloud / Grid Systems · MapReduce in Hybrid / Fabricated / Federated Cloud Systems · Social Networks Analyses with MapReduce · Data Mining, Analytics, and Visualization using MapReduce · Big Stream / Incremental Data Processing using MapReduce · Big Scientific, Genomic and Healthcare Data Processing with MapReduce · Industrial Experience and Use Cases of MapReduce based Applications · Recent Development Open Source Big Data Infrastructure Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the MR.BDI2013 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2013. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2013 and attend the conference to present the paper. General Chairs Albert Y. Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia Geoffrey Charles Fox, Indiana University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (xyzhanggz(a)gmail.com ) Suraj Pandey, IBM Australia Research Lab, Australia (suraj.pandey(a)au.ibm.com ) Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia (surya.nepal(a)csiro.au)

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CFP: BDSE2013 (Big Data Science and Engineering)
by Chang Liu 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

CFP: The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE2013), 3-5 December 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: August 18, 2013 Authors Notification: September 15, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2013 Conference: 3-5 December 2013 Submissions: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/submission.htm Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (special issue on Big Data). ------------ Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. Distributed systems is a classical research discipline investigating various distributed computing technologies and applications such as cloud computing and MapReduce. With new paradigms and technolog! ies, distributed systems research keeps going with new innovative outcomes from both industry and academia. For example, wide deployment of MapReduce is a distributed programming paradigm and an associated implementation to support distributed computing over large datasets on cloud. BDSE (Big Data Science and Engineering) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data, Distributed Systems and broadly related areas. BDSE 2013 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences, previously held as BigDataMR-12 (Xiangtan, China November 2012), AHPCN-12 (Bradford, UK, June 2012), AHPCN-11 (Banff, Canada, September 2011), AHPCN-10 (Melbourne, Australia, September 2010), AHPCN-09 (Seoul, Korea, June 2009), AHPCN-08 (Dalian, China, September 2008). Scope and Topics The objective of the conference is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of big data and distributed computing. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: - Big Data theory, applications and challenges - Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce - Big Data Infrastructure and Cloud Computing - Big Data mining and analytics - Big Data visualization - Large data stream processing on cloud - Large incremental datasets on cloud - Distributed and federated datasets - NoSQL data stores and DB scalability - Big Data sharing and privacy preserving - Security, trust and risk in Big Data - Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization - Extension of the MapReduce programming model - Distributed file systems for Big Data - MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA - MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments - Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization - Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools - Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data - Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce - Storage and computation management of Big Data - Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing - Algorithms and theory for distributed systems - Data management and distributed data systems - Security, privacy, fault tolerance and reliability in distributed systems - Distributed ad hoc, ubiquitous and pervasive systems - Mobile systems and development for handheld devices such as mobile phones - Distributed system architectures and software such as runtime systems, multicore programming languages, performance modelling and evaluation, programming environments and tools, and etc. - Distributed computing applications such as management of big data, scientific applications, social media applications, web applications and mobile computing Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the BDSE2013 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/submission.htm. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2013 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia General Vice Chairs Jiannong Cao, Poly. University Hong Kong, China Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Workshop Chairs Rajiv Rajan, CSIRO, Australia Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Steering Committee Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

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