----------------------Call for Papers--------------------------- The International Conference on Open and Big Data (OBD 2015) 24-26 August 2015, Rome, Italy http://www.ficloud.org/obd2015/ --------------------------------------------------------------- Data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Big Data encompasses various kinds of complex and large scale information that are beyond the processing capabilities of conventional software and databases. Open Data on the other hand can make Big Data more useful and widely accessible. The combination of Open and Big data can benefit users, developers, companies and various kinds of organizations to carry out useful analysis of data pattern and trends, make intelligent decisions, and solve complex problems that can help societies and economies and speed up innovations. The aim of the Open and Big Data conference (OBD 2015) is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of open and big data and to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Challenges and opportunities in open and big data - Data models and architectures - Security, privacy, and trust - Data protection and integrity - Identity theft, data loss and leakage - Legal and ethical issues - Data analytics and metrics - Data representation and structures - Data management and processing - Data capturing and acquisition - Tools and technologies - QoS in open and big data - Social networks analysis - Data searching and mining - Visualisation of data - Personal data logging and quantified-self - Context-aware data - Personalisation of data - Data economics - Applications of open and big data - Open and linked data - Methodologies and use cases - Usability issues - Storages and network requirements - Network models and protocols - Open and big data in cloud and IoT Paper submission and Publication: OBD 2015 is technically co-sponsorship by the IEEE-CS TCI: Technical Committee on the Internet of the IEEE Computer Society. Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website. All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 16 April 2015 (Firm) Authors Notification: 30 May 2015 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2015 Organizing Committee: General Chair Daniel Neagu, University of Bradford, UK Program Co-Chairs George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Local Organising Chair Massimo Mecella, SAPIENZA Universita di Roma, Italy International Liaison Chair Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Workshop Coordinator Tor-Morten Gronli, Westerdals-Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology, Norway Journal Special Issues Coordinator Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chair Javid Taheri, University of Sydney, Australia Advisory Committee Salima Benbernou, Universite Paris Descartes, France Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Keith Jeffery, Independent Consultant and Ex-Director IT at STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, University of Copenhagen, Denmark David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia Programme Committee Abdullah Gani, University of Malaya, Malaysia Andre de Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Angelica Caro, University of Bio-Bio, Chile Annalisa Appice, Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy Basem Y. Alkazemi, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia Bo Shen, University of Massachusette, Boston, USA Daniela Barreiro Claro, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Eric Rondeau, Universite de Lorraine France Georgia M. Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany Haruo Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Isaac Woungang, Ryerson University, Canada Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Jerome Darmont, Universite de Lyon, France Juan Fernando Perez, Imperial College London, UK Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar Ladjel Bellatreche, ENSMA, France Lai Xu, Bournemouth University, UK Lauro Beltrao Costa, University of British Columbia, Canada Lena Stromback, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden Lenka Lhotska, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Manolis Gergatsoulis, Ionian University, Greece Marco Aurelio, Stelmar Netto, IBM Research, Brazil Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela Ming Hour Yang, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan Mohamed Bakhouya, International University of Rabat, Morocco Nadia Bennani, INSA Lyon, France Nadira Lammari, CNAM, France Nawaz Khan, Middlesex University, UK Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, University of Zaragoza, Spain Riccardo Albertoni, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies, Italy Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Sadok Ben Yahia, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia Samhaa El-Beltagy, Nile University Cairo, Egypt Samia Oussena, University of West London, UK Satish Srirama, University of Tartu, Estonia Selma Boumerdassi, CNAM, France Sharifullah Khan, NUST, Pakistan Simon Fong, University of Macau, China Siti Hafizah Ab. Hamid, University of Malaya, Malaysia Siobhan Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Toshiyuki Amagasa, University of Tsukuba, Japan Yi Gu, Middle Tennessee State University, USA Yunjun Gao, Zhejiang University, China Zaki Malik, Wayne State University, USA, Zhifeng Bao, University of Tasmania, Australia