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<font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'><b>*** Last Mile ***<br></b><br>Second IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing<br>(BDC 2015)<br><br>December 07-10, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus<br><br>Co-located with the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference<br>on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2015)<br><br><a href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/BDC2015/">http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/BDC2015/</a><br></font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br></font><font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'>*** FINAL EXTENDED DEADLINE: 7 August, 2015 ***<br></font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br><br>CONTEXT AND SCOPE<br><br>Rapid advances in digital sensors, networks, storage, and computation along<br>with their availability at low cost is leading to the creation of huge collections<br>of data -- dubbed as Big Data. This data has the potential for enabling new<br>insights that can change the way business, science, and governments deliver<br>services to their consumers and can impact society as a whole. This has led<br>to the emergence of the Big Data Computing paradigm focusing on sensing,<br>collection, storage, management and analysis of data from variety of sources<br>to enable new value and insights.<br><br>To realize the full potential of Big Data Computing, we need to address<br>several challenges and develop suitable conceptual and technological<br>solutions for dealing them. These include life-cycle management of data,<br>large-scale storage, flexible processing infrastructure, data modeling,<br>scalable machine learning and data analysis algorithms, techniques for<br>sampling and making trade-off between data processing time and accuracy,<br>and dealing with privacy and ethical issues involved in data sensing, storage,<br>processing, and actions.<br><br>The International Symposium on Big Data Computing (BDC) 2015 -- held in<br>conjunction with 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud<br>Computing (UCC) 2015, December 7-10, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol,<br>Cyprus, aims at bringing together international researchers, developers,<br>policy makers, and users and to provide an international forum to present<br>leading research activities, technical solutions, and results on a broad range<br>of topics related to Big Data Computing paradigms, platforms and their<br>applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations,<br>posters, and workshops.<br><br><br>TOPICS<br><br>Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts<br>that demonstrate current research in all areas of Big Data Computing.<br><br>Topics of interest include but are not limited to:<br><br>I. Big Data Science<br>· Analytics<br>· Algorithms for Big Data<br>· Energy-efficient Algorithms<br>· Big Data Search<br>· Big Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices<br>· Visualization of Big Data<br><br>II. Big Data Infrastructures and Platforms<br>· Programming Systems<br>· Cyber-Infrastructure<br>· Performance evaluation<br>· Fault tolerance and reliability<br>· I/O and Data management<br>· Storage Systems (including file systems, NoSQL, and RDBMS)<br>· Resource management<br>· Many-Task Computing<br>· Many-core computing and accelerators<br><br>III. Big Data Security and Policy<br>· Management Policies<br>· Data Privacy<br>· Data Security<br>· Big Data Archival and Preservation<br>· Big Data Provenance<br><br>IV. Big Data Applications<br>· Scientific application cases studies on Cloud infrastructure<br>· Big Data Applications at Scale<br>· Experience Papers with Big Data Application Deployments<br>· Data streaming applications<br>· Big Data in Social Networks<br>· Healthcare Applications<br>· Enterprise Applications<br><br>One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed<br>papers.<br><br><br>PAPER SUBMISSION<br><br>Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts<br>should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter size<br>(8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references. Authors should<br>submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print<br>on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of<br>the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged<br>on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of<br>presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers<br>conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the BDC 2015<br>paper submission system:<br><br><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdc2015).">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdc2015).</a><br><br>Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not<br>currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not<br>following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action<br>may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of<br>the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions<br>received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately<br>structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the conference<br>PC Chair for more information.<br><br>At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in<br>order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an<br>accepted paper at the conference is a requirement of publication. Any paper<br>that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore.<br><br><br>SPECIAL ISSUES<br><br>Selected papers from BDC 2015 will be invited to extend and submit to the<br>Special Issue on Big Data Computing in the IEEE Transaction on Cloud<br>Computing.<br><br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>· Paper submissions due: 7 August, 2015 (final extension!)<br>· Notification of acceptance: 21 August, 2015<br>· Camera ready papers due: 21 September, 2015<br><br>· Early and author registration deadline: 21 September, 2015<br><br>· Proceedings-published posters due: 28 August, 2015<br>· Notification of acceptance: 18 September, 2015<br>· Camera ready posters due: 21 September, 2015<br><br><br>ORGANIZATION<br><br>General Chairs<br>· Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia<br>· George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus<br><br>Program Committee Chairs (bdc15-chairs@datasys.cs.iit.edu)<br>· Amy Apon, National Science Foundation, USA<br>· Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory,<br> USA<br>· Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA<br><br>Program Committee Vice Chairs<br>· Ilkay Altintas, University of California, San Diego, USA<br>· Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK<br><br>Program Committee Members<br>· Alexander Rasin, DePaul University, USA<br>· Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University, USA<br>· Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA<br>· Andre Luckow, BMW IT Research Center, USA<br>· Daniel Katz, University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab, USA<br>· Dongfang Zhao, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA<br>· Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA<br>· Florian Schintke, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany<br>· Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK<br>· Jaliya Ekanayake, Microsoft, USA<br>· Jessica Chen-Burger, Heriot-Watt University, UK<br>· Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA<br>· Justin Wozniak, Argonne National Lab, USA<br>· Ke Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA<br>· Kesheng (John) Wu, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA<br>· Kyle Chard, University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab, USA<br>· Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA<br>· Marco Netto, IBM Research, Brazil<br>· Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada<br>· Matei Stroila, HERE, USA<br>· Nagiza Samatova, North Carolina State University, USA<br>· Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK<br>· Paul Watson, NewCastle University, UK<br>· Peter Burnap, Cardiff University, UK<br>· Rahul Potharaju, Microsoft, USA<br>· Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago, USA<br>· Robert Ross, Argonne National Lab, USA<br>· Samer Al-Kiswany, University of British Columbia, Canada<br>· Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA<br>· Wei Tang, Argonne National Lab, USA<br>· Weidong Shi, University of Houston, USA<br>· Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida, USA<br>· Yanlong Yin, Bloomberg, USA<br>· Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA<br>· Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China<br>· Zhao Zhang, University of California, Berkeley, USA<br><br>Cyber Chair<br>· Dongfang Zhao, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA<br><br>Local Organizing Committee Chair<br>· George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br><br></font>
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