<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">******************************</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">******************************</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">****************************</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">The Eighth International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data (CBD 2020)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">September 19-20, 2020, Taiyuan, China</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Website: </span><a href="http://cds.tyut.edu.cn/cbd2020.htm" target="_blank">http://cds.tyut.edu.cn/cbd2020.htm</a><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">******************************</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">******************************</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">****************************</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">-------------</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Publication</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">-------------</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">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 Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience(SCI), Tsinghua Science and Technology(SCI), The Chinese Journal of Electronics(SCI), Big Data Mining and Analytics(IEEE), etc.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">--------------------</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Important Dates:</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">--------------------</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Paper submission deadline: May 20, 2020</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Notification of acceptance: July 10, 2020</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Camera ready due: August 5 , 2020</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Registration due: August 5, 2020</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">-------------------------</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Scope and Topics</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">-------------------------</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">The International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data (CBD) provides a forum for both academics and practitioners working on cloud computing and big data technologies to explore new ideas, share their experiences and leverage each other’s perspectives. Besides the latest research achievements, this conference also covers cloud/big data industry practices and their broad applications, and gives all participants a chance to identify the new/emerging “hot” trends in these areas. 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:</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">1. Research Track</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Cloud Security and Privacy</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Cloud Data Center Networking</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Cloud Virtualization</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Cloud Storage</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Cloud Resource Management</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Multi/Hybrid/Inter Cloud</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Big Data Processing/Mining/Query</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Cloud Workflow Scheduling</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Cloud based AI /Deep Learning</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Cloud based Industrial Internet</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Edge Computing Architecture and Algorithm</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Machine Learning and AI at Edge</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">2. Industry Track</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Cloud Computing Solutions</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Cloud Computing Specifications/Standards</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Big Data in Economic Analytics</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Big Data in Smart City/Home</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Big Data in Industry Practices</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">3. Application Track</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Industrial Internet</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Mobile Edge Computing</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Machine/Deep Learning</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Social Networking</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Knowledge Graph</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">-----------------------</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Paper Submission</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">-----------------------</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE US Letter Format: </span><a href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html" target="_blank">http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> and must be submitted via EasyChair (</span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbd2020" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbd2020</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">) as PDF files. The review version is limited to 6 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.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">------------------------------</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">-----------</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">General Conference Co-Chairs</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">------------------------------</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">-----------</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Ming Li, Taiyuan University of Technology, China</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">------------------------------</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">-----------</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Program Committee Chair</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">------------------------------</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">-----------</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hongkong, China</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">------------------------------</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">-----------</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Program Committee Co-Chairs</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">------------------------------</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">-----------</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Dengao Li, Taiyuan University of Technology, China</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Yan Jin, Taiyuan University of Technology, China</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Fang Dong, Southeast University, China</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">------------------------------</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">-----------</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">International Steering Committee</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">------------------------------</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">-----------</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Dengao Li, Taiyuan University of Technology, China</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">FOR MORE INFORMATION about the conference, organizing committee, submission instructions, and venue please visit the conference website: </span><a href="http://cds.tyut.edu.cn/cbd2020.htm" target="_blank">http://cds.tyut.edu.cn/cbd2020.htm</a><br></div></div>