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The 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (IEEE CBDCom 2020)

June 22-26, Calgary, Canada
http://cyber-science.org/2020/cbdcom/

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INTRODUCTION
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The IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing is a premier forum for researchers, practitioners and developers who are interested in cloud computing and big data to explore new ideas, techniques and tools, as well as to exchange experience. Besides the latest research achievements, the conference covers also innovative commercial data management systems, innovative commercial applications of cloud computing and big data technology, and experience in applying recent research advances to real-world problems.

IEEE CBDCom 2020 will be the fifth edition of the conference after the success of CBDCom 2015 in Beijing, CBDCom 2016 in Toulouse, CBDCom 2017 in San Francisco, CBDCom 2018 in Guangzhou, and CDBCom 2019 in Fukuoka. It will continuously offer a platform for researchers to exchange novel studies, discuss important issues and explore key challenges in innovative cloud and big data for smarter world.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Workshop/SS Proposal Due: November 30, 2019
Regular Paper Submission Due: February 15, 2020
Wksp/SS/Poster Paper Due: March 10, 2020
Authors Notification: April 2, 2020
Camera-ready Submission: May 10, 2020

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IEEE CBDCom 2020 CALLS FOR
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- Proposals for organizing tutorials, workshops and special sessions need to be submitted to the Tutorials, Workshops and Special Sessions Chairs, respectively. A proposal should include title, theme, scope and main presenters/organizers.
- Research paper (6-8 pages) should explore novel models, theory, or a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results.
- Works-in-Progess (WIP) (4-6 pages) papers are expected to present either work currently in progress or less developed but highly innovative ideas.
- Demo/Poster papers (2-4 pages) must describe working systems and be related to CBDCom. These systems may be innovative prototype implementations or mature systems that use related technology.

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue.
Regular, work-in-progress (WiP), workshop/special session, and poster papers need to be submitted via EDAS system.

Papers should be prepared in IEEE CS Proceedings format.
IEEE formatting information:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

All accepted papers in the main tracks, workshops, special sessions and demos/posters will be published in an IEEE Computer Society proceedings (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers will be recommended to prestigious journal special issues, among the others: Symmetry @ MDPI (SCIE), IEEE Access (SCIE), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (SCIE).

Some papers originally submitted as full papers can be accepted as short papers or posters during the review process. In such cases, the authors will need to reduce the paper accordingly when preparing the camera-ready version. At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register and present the paper at the conference.

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CBDCom 2020 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Honorary Chairs
Matthew Prineas, Athabasca University, Canada
Andrzej Gościński, Deakin University, Australia
Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan

General Chairs
Anna Kobusińska, Poznań University of Technology, Poland
Rachid Benlamri, Lakehead University, Canada

General Executive Chairs
Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University
Oscar Lin, Athabasca University, Canada

Program Chairs
Carson Kai-Sang Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada
Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada

Track Chairs
Track 1: Big Data Science and Analytics
Yacine Atif, University of Skovde, Sweden

Track 2: Big Data Infrastructure and Management
Hao Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Track 3: Big Data Tools and Applications
Naercio Magaia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Track 4: Cloud Management, Virtualization and Service
Mohamed Elhoseny, Mansoura University, Egypt

Track 5: Cloud/Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust
Qing Tan, Athabasca University, Canada

Track 6: Cloud/Big Data for IoT and Smart City
Abdulsalam Yassine, Lakehead University, Canada

Workshops/Special sessions Chairs
Xiaoyan Wang, Ibaraki University, Japan

Tutorial Chair
Rachid Benlamri, Lakehead University, Canada

Special Issue Chair
Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada

International Liaison & Publicity Chairs
Cristian Mateos, National University of Central Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mouzhi Ge, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Emad Mohammed, Lakehead University, Canada
Aziz Nasridinov, Chungbuk National University, Korea

Finance Chair
Hongxin Yan, Athabasca University, Canada

Local Organizing Committee
Oscar Lin (chair), Athabasca University, Canada
Ali Dewan, Athabasca University, Canada
Hongxin Yan, Athabasca University, Canada
Joelle Jackson, Athabasca University, Canada
Jillian Calliou, Athabasca University, Canada
Kevin Cole, Athabasca University, Canada

Steering Committee
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Huansheng Ning, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
Julien Bourgeois, UBFC, France
Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia
Anna Kobusińska, Poznań University of Technology, Poland

Advisory Committee
Frank Hsu, Fordam University, USA
Peng Li, The University of Aizu, Japan
Tsozen Yeh, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
Paulo Pires, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Christophe CERIN, University of Paris XIII, France
Felix Freitag, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Shawkat Ali, Fiji National University, Fiji
Victor Chang, Teesside University, United Kingdom
Georges Da Costa, lRIT, France
Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA
Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research America, USA
Weishan Zhang, China University of Petroleum, China
Jianbin Li, North China Electric Power University, China


Please visit the IEEE CDBCom 2020 website www.cyber-science.org/cbdcom/
for the complete listing of organizing committee and TPC members.