[IMPORTANT NOTICE] Due to continuing lockdowns/travel restrictions in-place caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, BigComp2021 may have the possibility to hold an online virtual conference instead of face-to-face offline one. The organizing committee will oversee the situation carefully until the end of September, 2020, then will decide formally whether or not to hold as an online virtual conference. If we hold BigComp2021 as virtual one, the details of the event will be announced.

2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp2021)
http://www.bigcomputing.org
Bangkok, Thailand
January 17-20, 2021

Goals: Big data and smart computing are emerging research fields that have recently drawn much attention from computer science and information technology as well as from social sciences and other disciplines. The goal of the International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp), initiated by KIISE (Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers), is to provide an international forum for exchanging ideas and information on current studies, challenges, research results, system developments, and practical experiences in these emerging fields. Following the successes of the previous BigComp conferences in Bangkok, Thailand (2014), Jeju, Korea (2015), Hong Kong, China (2016), Jeju, Korea (2017), Shanghai, China (2018), Kyoto, Japan (2019), and Busan, Korea (2020), the 2021 International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp 2021) will be held in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference is co-sponsored by IEEE and KIISE. BigComp 2021 invites authors to submit original research papers and original work-in-progress reports on big data and smart computing.

Related Topics: The topics of interest for BigComp2021 include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Techniques, models and algorithms for big data
- Tools and systems for big data
- Machine learning and AI for big data
- Data mining, graph mining, and data science
- Web search and information retrieval
- Infrastructure and platform for smart computing
- Models and tools for smart computing
- Big data analytics and social media
- Cloud and grid computing for big data
- Hardware software infrastructure for big data
- Security and privacy for big data
- Mobile communications and networks
- Smart devices and hardware
- Smart location-based services
- Big data applications, bioinformatics, multimedia, smartphones, etc.

Submission: Original papers that have not been published previously or are not under review in other journals or conferences will be considered. Papers must be formatted in PDF according to the IEEE two-column format for conference proceedings and submitted through EasyChair, http://www.easychair.org. The direct link for paper submission is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigcomp2021. Papers can be either regular or short papers, where regular papers are limited to 8 pages and short ones to 4 pages. BigComp2021 adopts double-blind review policy. Submissions must be properly anonymized, and lack of anonymization will result in a desk rejection.

Publication: Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be submitted to IEEE Xplore (pending), and a set of selected papers will be invited for possible publication to the following SCI(E) journals after further revision and extension:
- Journal of Supercomputing
- Sensors
- World Wide Web
- Data and Knowledge Engineering
- International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics

Important Dates:
- Workshop proposal submission due : August 14, 2020
- Tutorial proposal submission due : August 31, 2020
- Full/short paper submission due : September 21, 2020
- Acceptance notification : November 9, 2020
- Camera-ready copies due : November 30, 2020
- Author registration due : December 7, 2020
- Early-registration due : January 7, 2021
- Conference dates : January 17~20, 2021


Organizing Committee Members
- Steering Committee
Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA (Chair)
Chong-Kwon Kim, Seoul National University, Korea (Vice-Chair)
X. Sean Wang, Fudan University, China (Secretary)
Jinho Kim, Kangwon National University, Korea (Treasurer)
Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore (Advisor)
Ho-Jin Choi, KAIST, Korea
Masaru Kitsuregawa, Tokyo University, Japan
Jee-In Kim, Konkuk University, Korea
Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Kyoto University, Japan
Xiaofang Zhou, the Queensland University, Australia
Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea
Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA
Jongwon Choe, Sookmyung Women’s University, Korea (ex-officio)
Doo Hyun Kim, Konkuk University, Korea (ex-officio)

- General Co-Chairs
Herwig Unger, University of Hagen, Germany
Jinho Kim, Kangwon National University, Korea

- Program Committee Co-Chairs
U Kang, Seoul National University, Korea
Chakchai So-In, Khon Kaen univ., Thailand
Junping Du, Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecomm, China
Walid Saad, Virginia Tech., USA

- Steering Committee Liaison
Ho-Jin Choi, KAIST, Korea

- Organizing Chair
Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea
Phayung Meesad, KMUTNB, Thailand

- Journal special Issue Chair
Luonan Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Young-Ho Park, Sookmyung Women’s University, Korea

- Workshop Co-Chairs
Young-Kuk Ha, Konkuk University, Korea
Christian Wagner, University of Nottingham, U.K.
Julien Bourgeois, FEMTO-ST, France
Chanboon Sathitwiriyawong, KMITL, Thailand

- Tutorial Co-Chairs
Ladjel Bellatreche, ENSMA, France
Yu-Feng Li , Nanjing University, China
Se-Young Yun, KAIST, Korea
- Publicity Co-Chairs
Yang-Sae Moon, Kangwon National University, Korea
Nicolai Petkov, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Yingxia Shao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Chunrong Yuan, University of Cologne, Germany
Tianrui Li, SW Jiatong University Chendu, China
Wong Kam Fai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

- Sponsorship Co-Chairs
Gerald Quirchmayr, University of Vienna, Austria
Joo-Yeon Lee, Ajou University, Korea

- Finance Co-Chairs
Chul-Yun Kim, Sookmyung Woomen’s University, Korea
James Geller, NJIT, USA

- Panel Co-Chairs
Jonathan H. Chan, KMUTT, Thailand
Chaokun Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Steven E. Whang, KAIST, Korea

- Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
Kuntpong Woraratpanya, KMITL, Thailand
Young-Kuk Kim, Chungnam National University, Korea
Hiroaki Ohshima, University of Hyogo, Japan
Zhong Li, University of Hagen, Germany

- Poster Co-Chairs
Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulu, Finland
Woong-Kee Loh, Gachon University, Korea
Kitsuchart Pasupa, KMITL, Thailand

- Publication Co-Chairs
Hyuk-Yoon Kwon, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea
Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada

- Social Media Co-Chairs
Vithida Chongsuphajaisiddhi, KMUTT, Thailand
Joonho Kwon, Pusan National University, Korea
Shinsuke Nakajima, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan

- Registration Co-Chairs
Toshiyuki Amagasa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Min Song, Yonsei University, Korea

- Culture & Activity Co-Chairs
Vithida Chongsuphajaisiddhi, KMUTT, Thailand
Suan Lee, Inha University, Korea
Qingdang Li, University of Qingdao, China

- Web Co-Chairs
Kiyota Hashimoto, PSU, Thailand
Aziz Nasridinov, Chungbuk National University, Korea