Data nowadays comes from various sources including log files, transactional applications, the Web, social media and many others. A large part of this data is generated and transmitted in real time and in a large scale. To create value out of these data sets, business analysts and scientists employ advanced data analytics techniques combining, among others, traditional BI, text analytics, machine learning, data mining, and natural language processing. Tackling the complexity of both the data itself and its analysis remains an open challenge.

Cloud computing has emerged as a cost-effective and elastic computing paradigm that facilitates large scale data storage and analysis. Cloud infrastructures can provide adaptive resource provisioning with very little initial investment while scaling to massive amounts of commodity computing nodes. Data analytics, being very resource intensive, has the potential to be a significant cloud application, and to constitute a large fraction of the workload of modern data centers. Designing the infrastructures, systems and data analytics techniques in the new cloud computing environments remains an open challenge.


Topics of Interest

Areas of particular interest for the workshop include (but are not limited to):

Parallel execution and optimization
Scalable storage and indexing
Workload management
Infrastructures for cloud computing
Scalable machine learning
Frameworks for parallel computing
Industrial experiences and use cases
Benchmarking, tuning, and testing
Data science and analytics
Privacy and security in the cloud
Multi-tenancy
Economic models for data
Data management and analytics as a service


Paper Submission

All papers should be submitted in pdf and formatted using the double-column ACM format (templates are available here).

The workshop solicits:

research papers
vision papers
use cases
controversial topics
industrial experience

All papers should clearly mark their type (research/vision/industrial, etc.) in the paper title and should not exceed 4 pages.

Papers should be submitted using the conference management system: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/DANAC2014


Important Dates

Submission deadline: April 7, 2014
Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2014
Final papers due: May 19, 2014
Workshop: June 22, 2014