The 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing(BDCloud 2016)============================================================= ----------------- Important Dates ----------------- Workshops proposals deadline:  April 5th, 2016Paper submission for main conference deadline:  May 1st, 2016Paper submission for workshops deadline:  May 20th, 2016 Paper decision to authors: June 15th, 2016 Camera ready & Author Registration deadline:July 10th, 2016Early Registration deadline: July 25th Conference dates: October 8-10, 2016 --------------------------------- Paper Submission and Publication --------------------------------- Submissions must include an abstract, keywords,and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The length of papers shouldnot exceed 8 pages in the IEEE CS Conference format, including tables, figures,and references. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from thefollowing link: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Eachsubmission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members.Should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must register for theconference and present the work. All accepted and presented papers will bepublished in conference proceedings by IEEE CPS (EI indexed). Submit your paper(s) at the submission site: http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~bdcloud Some of the best works from all accepted andpresented BDCloud 2016 papers (after their expansion and second round ofindependent reviews) will be invited into special issues of carefully chosenIEEE and ACM journals. We contacted the editorial board of three journals andreceived encouraging response about the possibility of offering a special issueof this journal based on the works presented during the BDCloud 2016 conference. ============================================================== --------------------------------- Introduction --------------------------------- Big data is a term applied to many data sets withsizes going beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture,manage, process and analyze the data within a tolerable time period. Suchdatasets are usually characterized by having high VARIETY due to the data comingfrom various sources or having highly unstructured character (examples includedata from social media, sensor networks, scientific applications, video andimage formats, websites and documents, Internet search indexes, medicalrecords, business transactions, web logs, etc.); and large VOLUMES that areneeded to be processed with high data VELOCITY (I/O-intensive systems). Moreover,big data need to be high VALUE and VERACITY for decision makers to effectively take action and trust theresults and rationale.   Cloud computing is an increasingly popularapproach for delivering information infrastructures and resources as computingservices. A broad range of customers (both enterprises and individuals) can usuallyprovision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models, which letthem save significant capital investments in their own computing infrastructures.As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% dataglobally will be touched with Cloud Computing.   Cloud Computing can provide significant storage,computation, and distribution capabilities in support of solving multiple BigData challenges. The BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) conference wascreated to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industrypractitioners, and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Dataand Cloud Computing as well as support synergy of both fields. ------------------- Topics ------------------- Topics of particular interest include, but arenot limited to: •   Fundamentals of cloud computing •   Architectural cloud models •   Programming cloud models •   Provisioning/pricing cloud models  •   Data storage and computation incloud computing •   Resource and large-scale jobscheduling in cloud computing •   Security, privacy, trust, risk incloud and big data •   Fault tolerance and reliability incloud computing •   Access control to cloud computing •   Resource virtualization •   Monitoring and auditing in the cloud •   Scalable and elastic cloudservices •   Social computing in the cloud •   Innovative HCI and touch-screenmodels and technologies for the cloud •   Mobile commerce, handheld commerce,and e-markets in the cloud •   Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing •   Migration of business applicationsto the cloud •   Energy efficient cloudarchitecture •   Energy aware data storage andcomputation in cloud computing •   Energy aware scheduling,monitoring, auditing in the cloud •   Green Cloud •   Cloud use case studies •   Big Data theory, applications andchallenges •   Big Data mining and analytics inthe cloud •   Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduceand cloud computing •   Big Data visualization •   Large data streams and incrementaldatasets in the cloud •   Distributed and federated datasets •   NoSQL data stores and DBscalability •   Big Data sharing, security,privacy and trust •   Big Data placement, scheduling,and optimization •   Distributed file systems for BigData •   Big Data processing, resourcescheduling, and SLA in the cloud •   Performance characterization,evaluation and optimization •   Simulation and debugging of BigData systems •   Volume, Velocity, Variety, Valueand Veracity of Big Data •   Storage and computation managementof Big Data •   Large-scale workflow management inBig Data •   Data management and distributeddata systems •   Big Data applications --------------------- Organizing Committee --------------------- == General Chairs== Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USAAlbert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia == Program Chairs == Rafal Angryk, Georgia State University, USAXiaojun Cao, Georgia State University, USA Guanchun Luo, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,China == Proceedings Chair ==M. ShahriarHossain, University of Texas at El Paso, USA == Workshop Chair == Juan Banda, Stanford University, USA == Publicity Chair == Yang Wang, La Salle University, USA == Local/OrganizingChair == Tammie Dudley, Georgia State University, Atlanta,USA == Finance/Registration Chair == Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA == Web Chairs == Bing Li, Georgia State University, USA Ning Yu, Georgia State University, USA == Program Committee == See BDCloud-2016 web site: http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~bdcloud -------------------- Contact Information -------------------- If you have any question about the CFP and papersubmission, please email to [email protected].