<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><a name="OLE_LINK1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,255)">[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,255)">«Null»</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,255)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">******************************* IEEE DSS-2018 CFP *****************************<span style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">The 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS-2018) </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://cse.stfx.ca/~dss2018/">http://cse.stfx.ca/~dss2018/</a> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Exeter, England, UK, 28-30 June 2018 </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Sponsored by</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><br>IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC). </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt">INTRODUCTION<br>=============</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">As an interdisciplinary area, Data Science draws scientific inquiry from a broad range of subject areas such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, machine learning, optimization, signal processing, information retrieval, databases, cloud computing, computer vision, natural language processing, etc. Data Science is on the essence of deriving valuable insights from data. </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">Data Systems are posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power. </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">DSS (Data Science and Systems) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Data Science and Data Systems as well as their synergy. DSS-2018 will be hosted in Exeter, the capital city of Devon and provides the county with a central base for education, medicine, religion, commerce and culture. The city is also home to the magnificent Exeter Cathedral, which dates back to Norman times. Exeter is also ideally placed to base a trip to branch out visiting places such as the famous Dartmoor National Park and the unspoilt beaches of the North and South Devon coastlines.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers to DSS-2018. All accepted papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore and will be indexed by Engineering Index (EI). The authors of selected best papers will be invited post conference to extend their contributions for special issues of prestigious journals to be planned in conjunction with the conference.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">SCOPE AND TOP</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">I</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">CS</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">================</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Track 1: Data Science</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Track 2: Data Processing Technology</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Track 3: Data Systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Track 4: Data Applications</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">IMPORTANT DATES<br>================</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Paper Submission Deadline:   10 February 2018</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Authors Notification:              15 April 2018</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Camera-Ready Paper Due:     15 May 2018</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Early Registration Due:          15 May 2018</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Conference Date:                    28-30 June 2018</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE<br>==========================</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website ( </span><a href="http://dss.ex.ac.uk/"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">http://dss.ex.ac.uk/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> ) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page:<br></span><a href="http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at:<br></span><a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">====================== </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Distinguished papers selected from the conferences and associated workshops, after further extensions, will be recommended for submission and publication in the following prestigious journals or their Special Issues:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">- IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (IEEE Computer Society)</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">- Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley)</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">- Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer)</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">- Expert Systems Journal (Wiley)</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">- Cognitive Computation journal (Springer)</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">- Big Data Analytics (BioMed Central/Springer)</span></p></div>