[agents] [Deadline Approaching] Advanced Cloud and Big Data, 4th Intl. Conf. on (CBD 2016)

[Feng Shan]

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CBD2016 Call for Papers
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The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data
(CBD2016)
Chengdu, Sichuan, China, August 13-14, 2016
Website: http://cbd2016.scu.edu.cn/

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The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data(CBD 2016)
will be held in Chengdu, China, as a sequence of CBD2013 in Nanjing, CBD2014
in Huangshan, CBD2015 in Yangzhou.

CBD2016 provides an international forum for presenting emerging ideas
and trends in advanced cloud and big data from both the research community
as
well as the industry. It permits researchers, developers, and providers
from
academia and industry to address the challenges and discuss their new
ideas,
research results, applications, and experience in the big data. CBD aims to
improve international communication and cooperation and to promote big data
processing.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

Fundamentals, Models and Algorithms
       - Cloud Data Security and Privacy
       - Big Data Acquisition and Integration
       - Cloud Resource Management and Performance
       - Big Data Processing (Analytics, Querying, Mining)
       - Cloud Data Management
       - Big Data Storage and Management
       - Storage Architecture of Cloud
       - Big Data Graph algorithms
       - Green Cloud
       - Personal Data Protection and Usage
       - Networking Technologies for Data Center
       - Algorithms for Enhancing Data Quality
       - Virtualization Technologies Design Methodologies and Tools
       - Cloud Computing Platforms
       - Big Data Platforms
       - Cloud Computing Specifications and Standards
       - Big Data Toolkits
       - Big Data As A Service
Applications and Interdisciplinary Topics
       - Cloud Computing Solutions
       - Big Data in Enterprise Models and Practices
       - Mobile Cloud Computing Applications
       - Big Data Analytics in e-Government and Society
       - Big Data in Business Performance Management
       - Big Data Applications in Social Credit System

In addition to research papers, CBD2016 also seeks exhibitions of modern
products and equipment for computer science and information engineering.

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SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard CPS templates and must
be
submitted via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbd2016
)
as PDF files. The review version is limited to 8 pages (CPS 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. Accepted papers will be all published by
Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be submitted for indexing to
EI.

The selected best papers will be published in special issues of Journal of
Computer and System Sciences, Scientific Programming, Concurrency and
Computation: Practice and Experience, Tsinghua Science and Technology
(tentative).

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ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

General Chairs:
Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA
Christophe Cérin, University of Paris XIII, France
Bing Guo, Sichuan University, China

Program Committee Chairs:
Qiang He, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Guohui Li, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Steering Committee Chairs:
Junzhou Luo (Chair), Southeast University, China
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA

Keynote Speakers:
Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hongkong
Hui Lei, IBM USA

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IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission April 10, 2016
Notification of acceptance June 1, 2016
Deadline for final version June 20, 2016
Deadline for registration June 20, 2016