Call for papers: Special Issue on "MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure", in International Journal of Big Data Intelligence. Description This special issue solicits papers from an open call and extended papers partly selected from the following conference(s): CloudCom-Asia 2013: International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data http://www.cloudbd2013.com MR.BDI 2013: International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/ Subject Coverage Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: *The 5Vs of the data landscape: volume, variety, velocity, veracity, value *Big data science and foundations, analytics, visualisation and semantics *Software and tools for big data management *Security, privacy and legal issues specific to big data *Big data economy, QoS and business models *Intelligence and scientific discovery *Software, hardware and algorithm co-design, high-performance computing *Large-scale recommendation systems and graph analysis *Algorithmic, experimental, prototyping and implementation *Data-driven innovation, computational modelling and data integration *Data intensive computing theorems and technologies *Modelling, simulation and performance evaluation *Hardware and infrastructure, green data centres/environmental-friendly perspectives *Computing, scheduling and resource management for sustainability *Complex applications in areas where massive data is generated Notes for Prospective Authors Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re- written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper). All papers are refereed through a peer review process. Please read our information on preparing and submitting articles. NOTES: 1. All papers must be submitted online http://www.inderscience.com/ospeers/authorregister.php. Information about preparing articles: http://www.inderscience.com/info/inauthors/author_mp.php 2. Please add a short comment indicating the name of guest editor(s) and/or the name of conference where your paper was selected. You can include this information in a cover letter or in the comment area in step 1 of the submission process. Deadlines for Submission Submission of Manuscripts: 15 March 2014 Notification to Authors: 30 April 2014 Final Versions Due: 15 May 2014 Guest Editor(s) details Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia *Email: xyzhanggz@gmail.com Xianghan Zheng, Fuzhou University, China *Email: xianghan.zheng@fzu.edu.cn Best Regards, Xuyun Zhang Xianghan Zheng