(we apologize if you receive multiple copies) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CBD2016 Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data (CBD2016) Chengdu, Sichuan, China, August 13-14, 2016 Website: http://cbd2016.scu.edu.cn/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data(CBD 2016) will be held in Chengdu, China, as a sequence of CBD2013 in Nanjing, CBD2014 in Huangshan, CBD2015 in Yangzhou. CBD2016 provides an international forum for presenting emerging ideas and trends in advanced cloud and big data from both the research community as well as the industry. It permits researchers, developers, and providers from academia and industry to address the challenges and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications, and experience in the big data. CBD aims to improve international communication and cooperation and to promote big data processing. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Fundamentals, Models and Algorithms - Cloud Data Security and Privacy - Big Data Acquisition and Integration - Cloud Resource Management and Performance - Big Data Processing (Analytics, Querying, Mining) - Cloud Data Management - Big Data Storage and Management - Storage Architecture of Cloud - Big Data Graph algorithms - Green Cloud - Personal Data Protection and Usage - Networking Technologies for Data Center - Algorithms for Enhancing Data Quality - Virtualization Technologies Design Methodologies and Tools - Cloud Computing Platforms - Big Data Platforms - Cloud Computing Specifications and Standards - Big Data Toolkits - Big Data As A Service Applications and Interdisciplinary Topics - Cloud Computing Solutions - Big Data in Enterprise Models and Practices - Mobile Cloud Computing Applications - Big Data Analytics in e-Government and Society - Big Data in Business Performance Management - Big Data Applications in Social Credit System In addition to research papers, CBD2016 also seeks exhibitions of modern products and equipment for computer science and information engineering. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard CPS templates and must be submitted via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbd2016 ) as PDF files. The review version is limited to 8 pages (CPS 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. Accepted papers will be all published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be submitted for indexing to EI. The selected best papers will be published in special issues of Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Scientific Programming, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Tsinghua Science and Technology (tentative). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE General Chairs: Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA Christophe Cérin, University of Paris XIII, France Bing Guo, Sichuan University, China Program Committee Chairs: Qiang He, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Guohui Li, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee Chairs: Junzhou Luo (Chair), Southeast University, China Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA Keynote Speakers: Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hongkong Hui Lei, IBM USA --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission April 10, 2016 Notification of acceptance June 1, 2016 Deadline for final version June 20, 2016 Deadline for registration June 20, 2016