<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"><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><b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><div>​</div></span></b><ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline" class="gmail_default">​<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><b>​<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><b>​<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><b>Submission Deadline:
     2<div style="display:inline" class="gmail_default">​8​</div></b></span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><b><b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">th August 2017</span></b></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span>​</div><br></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>​</b></div></div><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>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal"> </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>

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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>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Task Scheduling in Cloud Computing</b></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>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>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Cloud Data Governance</b></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>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>

<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>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>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Data Science and Cloud Computing</b></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>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>

<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">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>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"> </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>Manufacturing Informatics</b></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>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>

<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">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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