CFP:The 1st International Workshop on Massive Data Storage and Processing (MDSP 2012)

Call for paper: the 1st International Workshop on Massive Data Storage and Processing (MDSP 2012) will be held in conjunction with WAIM 2012, Harbin, China, Aug 18-20, 2012.

Important dates:
Abstract due: April 20, 2012
Full paper due: April 30, 2012
Author notification: May 20, 2012
Camera-Ready deadline: May 30, 2012
Author registration: May 30, 2012

Description
Internet companies and traditional organizations store massive data sets, such as blogs on the Web, transactions performed at Web-commerce sites, data generated by telecom switches, health care systems, and bioinformatics. To mine the scientific or commercial values hidden behind such big data, large-scale data processing techniques are required. Due to the rapid growth of data size, efficient data storage and analysis become more and more challenging. They require innovative storage technologies, scalable processing system, and operation schemas capable of managing PB-scale data.

This MDSP 2012 workshop intends to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting edge research on massive data storage and processing, such that the interactions among the experts of these areas can be promoted and new interdisciplinary technologies can be developed. The scope of the workshop includes both data storage and processing techniques involving massive data, as well as techniques for more specialized problems in, e.g., scientific computing, database, business intelligence, statistics, and health care.

The workshop welcomes various different kinds of papers that could optimize the performance aspects of existing data storage and processing. The papers may address issues including novel architectures for massive data storage and processing, storage networking, storage virtualization, storage for complex computing, data pre-processing, Job scheduling for computing cluster, data scheduling. Papers of applied research, industrial experience reports, work-in-progress and vision papers with different criteria for each category are also solicited. The best presented paper will receive the BEST PAPER AWARD.




Topic of Interest
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
* Distributed data management, retrieval and mining
* Novel architectures for massive storage and processing
* File systems, object-based storage, block-level storage
* Solid state drive (SSD)-based storage
* Storage virtualization and cloud storage
* Map-reduce and its generalizations
* Massive data mining
* Query processing and optimization for massive data
* Privacy Preservation
* Storage as a Service
* Storage networking
* Parallel database
* Parallel I/O architectures
* Massive data processing: algorithms, techniques, and systems
* Privacy and security in massive data processing
* Real-time processing, performance issues
* Stream data processing
* Job Scheduling and data scheduling optimization

Submission Guidelines
Papers should not exceed 10 pages in LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format. The submission of papers must be in either PDF or Word format. We also welcome demonstration proposals and posters to foster interaction, to present system perspective on real problems, and to introduce innovative concepts. Those demo or shorter papers should not exceed 4 pages. The Authors should exclude the usage of non-English fonts to avoid the problems from reviewers' machines.

All accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. This ensures wide dissemination and high visibility (e.g. in the DBLP and ScienceDirect). Online proceedings will additionally be hosted at the workshop web site.

Please submit your papers using the following submission site:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MDSP2012

Organizing Committee
General Co-Chairs
Weisong Shi, Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, USA
Email: weisong@wayne.edu

Yunjun Gao, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China
Email: gaoyj@zju.edu.cn

Program Co-Chairs
Weiping Wang, Institute of Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Email: wpwang@ncic.ac.cn

Zujie Ren, College of Computer Science, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
Email: renzj@hdu.edu.cn

Tentative program committee members:
* Guoray Cai (Pennsylvania State University, USA??
* Yong Woo LEE (University of Seoul, Korea)
* Hung Keng Pung (National University of Singapore)
* Xiaofei Liao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
* Yijun Bei (Zhejiang University, China)
* Yi Zhuang (Zhejiang GongShang University, China)
* Tao Jiang (Jiaxing University, China)
* Weiwei Sun (Fudan University, China)
* Xiaokui Xiao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
* Yimin Lin (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
* Bin Yao (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
* Shaojie Qiao (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)
* Congfeng Jiang (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China)
* Jilin Zhang (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China)
* Qi Qiang (Alibaba Corp, China)
* Yongjian Ren (Infocore Corp, China)