<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Call for papers: <div><br></div><div>Your contribution is solicited for the following special all sessions for the forthcoming IEEE international conference on the frontiers and advances in data science, to be held 23-25 Oct 2017, in Xian, China.<br><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:16pt">Special Sessions</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Special Sessions Chair</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Elhadj Benkhelifa, <i>Staffordshire University</i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Important Dates</b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Submission Deadline:
<b>20th August 2017</b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Notification: <b>5th
September 2017</b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Registration and
Ready Camera Submission: <b>15th September 2017</b></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">For further information and any queries please email:
<a href="mailto:E.Benkhelifa@staffs.ac.uk" target="_blank">E.Benkhelifa@staffs.ac.uk</a> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt">Sessions</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Blockchain Technology</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Session Chairs</b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Gary Spencer, <i>CEO
of Yotta Laboratories Ltd</i></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Elhadj Benkhelifa, <i>Staffordshire
University</i></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Submissions</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fads2017" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferen<wbr>ces/?conf=fads2017</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Topics</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Topics include but not limited to:</p>
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<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Blockchain
Challenges and opportunities</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Blockchain Security,
Trust and Privacy</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Blockchain
Architecture</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Blockchain Smart
Contracts</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Blockchain
Applications (eg Insurance, Payments, Banking, Energy, Healthcare,
Government, Retail, Telco etc)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Blockchain as a
Service (BaaS)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Blockchain and
Cryptocurrencies</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Blockchain Standards</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Blockchain Legal
Implications</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Blockchain Based
Case Studies</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Blockchain and
Forensics</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Distributed Ledger
Technologies</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Blockchain and
Machine Learning</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Blockchain and
Governance</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Blockchain and Cloud
Computing</li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Task Scheduling in Cloud Computing</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Session Chairs</b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Mohamed Shahid
Hassan, Staffordshire University</li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Submissions</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fads2017" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferen<wbr>ces/?conf=fads2017</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Topics</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Topics include but not limited to:</p>
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<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Task Scheduling
Methods, Applications, and Tools</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">From Non-Cloud to
Cloud Task Scheduling</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Task Scheduling
Algorithms</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Bio-inspired
Algorithms for Task Scheduling</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Task Scheduling
Optimisation</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">VM Scheduling</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Task Scheduling and
Energy Efficiency</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Resource-level Task
Scheduling</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">User-Level Task
Scheduling</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Multi-objective
Optimisation for Task Scheduling</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Constraint-based
Task Scheduling</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Task Scheduling for
Cloudlets</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Task Scheduling for
Edge Computing</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Task Scheduling for
IOT</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Task Scheduling for
Multi-Cloud</li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Cloud Data Governance</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Session Chairs</b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Majid Al-Ruithe, <i>Head
of IT, KSA</i></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Session Chairs</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fads2017" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferen<wbr>ces/?conf=fads2017</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Topics</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Topics include but not limited to:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"> </p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Cloud Data
Governance Frameworks and Models</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Cloud Data
Governance Challenges and Opportunities</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Attributes and
Dimensions of Cloud Data Governance</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Designing Cloud Data
Governance programmes</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Deployment of Cloud
Data Governance programmes</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Cloud Data
Governance Case Studies</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Policy, standards
and Strategies for Cloud Data Governance</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Data Governance and
other Governance Domains (IT, Corporate, Information etc)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Cloud Data
Governance and Big Data</li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Data Science and Cloud Computing</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Session Chairs</b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Mohamed Alsmirat, <i>Jordan
University of Science and Technoloy (JUST)</i></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Submissions</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fads2017" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferen<wbr>ces/?conf=fads2017</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Topics</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Topics include but not limited to:</p>
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<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Data Science
Applications in Cloud Computing</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Cloud Forensics</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Cloud Data Auditing</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Cloud based Social
Network Analysis</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Cloud computing and
Semantic Web</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Knowledge Management
Theories and Applications in Cloud computing</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Data Science and
Cloud Computing Security</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Cloud based
Collaborative Platforms</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Software
Engineering theories and applications in Cloud Computing</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Quality of Service
for Cloud Computing</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Big Data and
Computing, challenges and opportunities</li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Manufacturing Informatics</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Session Chairs</b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Ashutosh Tiwari, <i>Cranfield
University</i></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Elhadj Benkhelifa, <i>Stafforshire
University</i></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Submissions</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fads2017" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferen<wbr>ces/?conf=fads2017</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Topics</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Topics include but not limited to:</p>
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<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Data Science
theories and applications for Manufacturing</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Optimisation in
Manufacturing Informatics</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Process
Optimisation</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Data Analytics
Applications in Manufacturing</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">The Impact of
Manufacturing Informatics in the Digital Economy</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Manufacturing
Intelligence</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Gamification and
Manufacturing</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Knowledge
Management and Manufacturing</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Digital
Manufacturing</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Cyber-risk
Manufacturing Informatics</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Data fusion in
Manufacturing Informatics</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Cost Engineering
and Manufacturing Informatics</li></ul>
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