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The 5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2015)


http://ncc.dlut.edu.cn/~bdcloud2015/index.html

Dalian, China, August 26-28, 2015

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Around 30 accepted and presented papers will be published directly by SCI or EI journals, other accepted and presented papers will be published in conference proceedings (IEEE CPS)



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Important Dates
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Workshop proposal submission deadline: April 15th, 2015
Workshop proposal decision to organizers: May 15th, 2015
Paper submission deadline: April 15th, 2015
Paper decision to authors: June 15th, 2015
Camera ready deadline: June 30th, 2015
Registration deadline: June 30th, 2015

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Paper Submission and Publication
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Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from the follwing link:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work.

Submit your paper(s) at the submission site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdcloud2015

Around 30 accepted and presented papers will be published directly by SCI indexed or EI indexed journals. Other accepted and presented papers will be published in conference proceedings by IEEE CPS (EI indexed).

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Introduction
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Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity).
Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures.
As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing.
BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. 


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Topics
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Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
• Fundamentals of cloud computing
• Architectural cloud models
• Programming cloud models
• Provisioning/pricing cloud models 
• Data storage and computation in cloud computing
• Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing
• Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data
• Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing
• Access control to cloud computing
• Resource virtualisation
• Monitoring and auditing in cloud
• Scalable and elastic cloud services
• Social computing and impacts on the cloud
• Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud
• Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud
• Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing
• Migration of business applications to cloud
• Energy efficient cloud architecture
• Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing
• Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud
• Green Cloud
• Cloud use case studies
• Big Data theory, applications and challenges
• Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud
• Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing
• Big Data visualization
• Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud
• Distributed and federated datasets
• NoSQL data stores and DB scalability
• Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust
• Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization
• Distributed file systems for Big Data
• Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud
• Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization
• Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems
• Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data
• Storage and computation management of Big Data
• Large-scale workflow management in Big Data
• Data management and distributed data systems
• Big data applications


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Organizing Committee
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== General Chairs==
Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California Irvine, USA
Keqiu Li, Dalian University of Technology, China

== Program Chairs ==
Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Kuan Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan

== Workshop Chairs ==
Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

== Publicity Chairs ==
Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK
Deze Zeng, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

== Organizing Chair ==
Heng Qi, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

== Finance Chair ==
Rui Kou, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

== Registration Chair ==
Zhiyang Li, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China

== Web Chair ==
Pengfei Lu, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

== Program Committee ==
See BDCloud-2015 web site: http://ncc.dlut.edu.cn/~bdcloud2015/


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Contact Information
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