[agents] Deadline extension (Aug 1) || CBD2014 || November 20 - 22, 2014-Huangshan, China

[CBD2014]

Dear colleagues and friends, 

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** Deadline has been extended to Aug 1,2014 due to multiple requests 

Call for papers: 

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The Second International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data 
CBD 2014 
November 20-22, 2014, Huangshan, Anhui, China 
Website: http://cbd.seu.edu.cn/cbd2014/ 
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Publication 
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All submitted papers will be reviewed by program committee members and 
selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and 
clarity of presentation. Accepted papers will be all published by 
Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be submitted for 
indexing to EI (Compendex). Authors of selected papers will be invited 
to submit revised and expanded version of their papers to be 
considered for publication in special issues of well-known 
international journals such as Cluster Computing (SCI),Concurrency and 
Computation: Practice and Experience (SCI), International Journal of 
Cloud Computing, and etc. 

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Important Dates: 
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- Extended submission deadline: Aug 1, 2014 
- Notification of acceptance: Sep 1, 2014 
- Camera Ready Due: Sep 20, 2014 
- Registration Due: Sep 20, 2014 

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Scope and Topics 
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The International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data (CBD) 
provides a forum for both academics and practitioners who are working 
on cloud computing and big data technologies to explore new ideas, 
share their experience and leverage each other's perspectives. Besides 
the latest research achievements, this conference also covers some 
innovative commercial issues of cloud computing and big data, such as 
the commercial data management system, commercial applications, etc., 
and gives all participants a chance to identify the new/emerging "hot" 
trends in this important area. We solicit original papers on a wide 
range of cloud computing and big data topics that can be divided into 
three tracks but are not limited to: 

Research Track 
-Cloud Data Privacy 
-Cloud Security 
-Cloud Resource Management and Performance 
-Cloud Data Management 
-Storage Architecture of Cloud 
-Green Cloud 
-Networking Technologies for Data Center 
-Virtualization Technologies 
-Big Data Processing (Analytics, Querying, Mining) 
-Big Data Storage and Management 
-Big Data Graph algorithms 

Industry Track 
-Cloud Computing Solutions 
-Cloud Computing Specifications and Standards 
-Big Data Economic Analytics 
-Big Data in Business Performance Management 
-Big Data in Enterprise Models and Practices 

Application Track 
-Cloud Computing Platforms 
-Mobile Cloud Computing Applications 
-Big Data As A Service 
-Big Data Platforms 
-Big Data Toolkits 

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Paper Submission 
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Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE US Letter 
Format:http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/t 
emplates.html and must be submitted via EasyChair 
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/-conf=cbd2014) as PDF files. 
The review version is limited to 8 pages (IEEE proceedings format), 
including references and illustrations. Submitted papers should not be 
previously published in or be under consideration for publication in 
another conference or journal. Submission of a paper should be 
regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at 
least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the 
paper. 

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Program Committee Chairs 
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General Conference Co-Chairs 
- Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA 
- You Chin Fuh, IBM 
Program Committee Co-Chairs 
- Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China 
- Garth Tschetter, IBM 
- Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada 



FOR MORE INFORMATION about the conference, organizing committee, 
submission instructions, and venue please visit the conference 
website: 
http://cbd.seu.edu.cn/cbd2014/