************************************************************************** Final Call for Papers The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT) Date: December 6-9, 2016 Location: Shanghai, China Website: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/bdcat2016/ Important Dates: - Paper Submission Due : 31 August, 2016 - Author Notification : 25 September, 2016 - Final Manuscript Due : 30 September, 2016 The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT) is an annual international conference. The first two events were held in London (BDC 2014) and Cyprus (BDC 2015) respectively. In 2016, the conference has been expanded to explicitly include applications and renamed as BDCAT 2016. The conference aims to provide a platform for researchers to present their new discoveries, developments, results, as well as the latest trends in big data computing, technologies and applications. BDCAT 2016 will be held in conjunction with the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016) at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: I. Big Data Science Big Data Analytics Innovative Data Science Models and Approaches Data Science Practice and Experience Algorithms for Big Data Novel Big Data Search Techniques Innovative data and Knowledge Engineering approaches Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Approaches for Big Data Big Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices Experience reports in Solving Large Scale Data Science Problems II. Big Data Infrastructures and Platforms Scalable computing models, theories, and algorithms In-Memory Systems and platforms for Big Data Analytics Programming Systems for Big Data Cyber-Infrastructures for Big Data Performance evaluation reports for Big Data Systems Fault tolerance and reliability of Big Data Systems I/O and Data management Approaches for Big Data Energy-efficient Algorithms Storage Systems (including file systems, NoSQL, and RDBMS) Resource management Approaches for Big Data Systems Many-Task Computing Many-core computing and accelerators III. Big Data Security and Policy Big Data Archival and Preservation Big Data Management Policies Data Privacy Data Security Big Data Provenance Ethical and Anonymization Issues for Big Data Big Data Compliance and Governance Models IV. Big Data Applications Experience Papers with Big Data Application Deployments Big Data Applications for Internet of things Scientific application cases studies on Cloud infrastructures Big Data Applications at Scale Data streaming applications Mobile Applications of Big Data Big Data in Social Networks Healthcare Applications such as Genome processing and analytics Enterprise Applications V. Visualization of Big Data Visual Analytics Algorithms and Foundations Graph and Context Models for Visualization Analytical Reasoning and Sense-making on Big Data Visual Representation and Interaction Big Data Transformation, and Presentation Honorary Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Beng Chin OOI, National University of Singapore, Singapore Programme Committee Chairs Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK (Email: a.anjum@derby.ac.uk) Zhao Xinghui, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, USA Programme Committee Vice Chairs Ilkay Altintas, University of California, San Diego, USA Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China Zhangbing Zhou, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China Local Organizing Chair Cheng Wong, Tongji University, China Publicity Chair Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Shruti Kohli, University of Birmingham, UK Programme Committee Members Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Ilkay Altintas, University of California, San Diego, USA Ee-Chien Chang, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jong Hoon Ahnn, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Adel Taweel, Kings College London, UK Varun Soundararajan, Google, USA Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA Robert Hsu Chung Hua University, Taiwan Dongfang Zhao, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Rui Zhang, University of Melbourne, Australia Yin Zhang, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada Thomas Bohnert, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Ke Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), USA Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Kesheng Wu, Berkeley Lab, USA Rami Bahsoon, University of Birmingham, UK Marco Netto, IBM Research Zhangbing Zhou, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA Xiao Chen, Jiangsu University, China Justin Wozniak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Andre Luckow, BMW Dan Chen, Wuhan University, China Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, University of Zaragoza, Spain Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, UK Been-Chian Chen,National University of Tainan,Taiwan Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Argonne National Lab and The University of Chicago, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Paul Townend, University of Leeds, UK Guanjun Liu, Tongji University, Shanghai, China Yan Tang, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Mustafa Rafique, IBM Research, Ireland Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK Tonglin Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Jie Cui, Anhui University, China Weidong Shi, University of Houston, USA Jose Brito, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA Alan Sill, Texas Tech University, USA Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia Ali R Butt, Virginia Tech,USA Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Bo Li, Beihang University, China Mohsin Farid, University of Derby, UK Samer Al-Kiswany, The University of British Columbia, Canada Jie Cui, Anhui University, Hefei, China Sajjad A Madani,COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan David Chiu, University of Puget Sound, USA Manzur Murshed, Federation University, Australia Silvio Pardi,Unviersity of Naples Federico II, Italy Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Richard Hill, University of Derby, UK Benjamin Rubinstein, University of Melbourne, Australia Kune Raghavendra, ADRIN,DOS, India Sangmi Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA Said Jai Andaloussi, Casablanca Hassan II University, Morocco Blesson Varghese, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Khaled Salah, Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research, UAE Hemant Sharma, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece Khalid Elgazzar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Joarder Kamal, Monash University, Australia Jianwu Wang, University of Maryland, USA Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xiaolin Andy Li, University of Florida, USA Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Renyu Yang Beihang University, China Xiangjun Shen, Jiangsu University, China 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 using the following templates (latex, pdf, doc). 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 BDCAT 2016 paper submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdsea2016). 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 action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads 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. Selected papers from BDCAT 2016 will be invited to extend and submit to the Special Issue on Big Data Computing in the IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transaction on Big Data and other leading journals.