SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
BIG DATA ANALYTICS
(BDA 2013)
Mysore, India
December 16--18 2013
http://www.bda2013.net/

GENERAL CALL FOR PAPERS

Recently, data generation at the scale of terabytes/petabytes/exabytes have become
commonplace in many scientific and commercial domains. Streaming data, social media
content, electronic medical records, astronomy surveys, genomic and proteomic studies and
similar areas generate data at a scale that is becoming increasingly difficult to manage
using traditional database technologies. Big Data is an umbrella term used for such massive
collections of data. Besides volume, analytics has to face challenges like heterogeneity,
timeliness, complexity, velocity and privacy issues. The scale of such data poses
significant challenges for analytics, going beyond what can be supported by conventional
data, storage and retrieval models.

The International Conference on Big Data Analytics is set in this backdrop. The conference
was conceived as part of a collaboration between the University of Delhi, India and the
University of Aizu, Japan. The first BDA conference was successfully held in Delhi, India,
in December 2012. The enthusiastic response to this event prompted the decision to make the
BDA conference as an annual event under the umbrella of this collaboration. BDA 2013 will
be held in the city of Mysore, India in December 2013.

The goal of the conference is to generate interest among researchers, practitioners and
policy makers by exposing them to ground breaking opportunities arising from analysis and
processing of massive volumes of data. We invite researchers, developers, policy makers and
users to participate in this event to share and discuss the emerging challenges in
developing data management and data mining solutions, and frameworks around cloud and
distributed computing platforms.

Major topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Analytics as a Service
* Architectural Design for Big Data
* Big Data Ethics
* Big Data Governance
* Conceptual Models for Analytics
* Cognitive Models for Analytics
* Clustering of Big Data
* Data Centric Networking
* Data Management in Clouds
* Data Models for Big Data Analytics
* Domain-specific Analytics
* Index Structures for Big Data Analytics
* Interaction Design for Exploratory Analytics
* Machine Learning techniques for Big Data
* Model Discovery from Big Data
* NoSQL and non-standard Data Models
* Physical Data Organization for Big Data
* Predictive Modeling
* Privacy Issues in Big Data Analytics
* Programming Models for Big Data Analytics
* Query Languages and Paradigms
* Rule Mining from Big Data
* Standards for Data Centers
* Scalability and Performance issues
* Security Analytics
* Semantics and Big Data
* Streaming Data Analytics
* Summarization and Materialized views
* Topic Modeling
* Unstructured and Semi-structured Data Mining
* Visual Analytics

Original, high-quality papers addressing the above and related topics are invited. We
strongly encourage papers that report experimental work and results.

Authors are invited to submit only PDF files. For preparing the manuscript, please see
instructions for authors by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Research track submissions submissions must not exceed 20 pages in the LNCS style. The
submissions will be accepted through EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?
conf=bda2013). Authors are required to submit an abstract of their paper as a expression of
interest, before June 30 2013, 23:59 PST. Full-length papers should be submitted before
July 7 2013, 23:59 PST.

Tutorial proposals should be in the form of full-length tutorial papers not exceeding 16
LNCS pages. They should be submitted using the EasyChair system (https://www.easychair.org/
conferences/?conf=bda2013) in the Tutorials track. Preference is given to tutorial speakers
who have practical experience in their tutorial topic and can augment their talks with
pertinent demos. Tutorial papers will be part of the conference proceedings. Submissions
for tutorials also close on June 30 2013 at 23:59 PST, with the abstract deadline on July 7
2013, 23:59 PST.

Industry submissions must not exceed 8 pages in length in the LNCS format. Industry track
papers must have deep insights, both technical and business. Papers which outline specific
production use cases for Big Data analytics, storage, search, visualization as well as
governance are welcome. However, marketing or product promotions submissions are
discouraged. Industry track papers will be part of the main conference proceedings.
Submissions for the industry track also close on June 30 2013 at 23:59 PST, with the
abstract deadline on July 7 2013, 23:59 PST.

Submissions for the PhD symposium must not exceed 8 pages in length in the LNCS format. PhD
Symposium papers should be single-author papers that describe a synopsis of the proposed
PhD thesis. The supervisor name should be indicated below the author name and should not be
listed as an additional author. PhD Symposoum submissions should describe theses that are
in an advanced stage; preliminary research directions are not encouraged. PhD Symposium
submissions should be submitted in the PhD Symposium track on EasyChair ( https://
www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bda2013). The deadline for PhD Symposium submissions is
31 August 2013, 23:59 PST. PhD Symposium papers will not be part of the main conference
proceedings.

Important Dates (Research, Tutorial, Industry):
Abstract submission deadline: June 30 2013
Paper submission deadline: July 7 2013
Notification to authors: August 23 2013
Camera ready submission: September 4 2013

Important Dates (PhD Symposium)
Paper Submission deadline: 31 August 2013
Notification to authors: 1 October 2013
Camera-ready papers: 15 October 2013

Conference start: 16 December 2013

Steering Committee:
S K Gupta, IIT Delhi, India (chair)
H V Jagadish, University of Michigan, USA
D Janakiram, IIT Madras, India
Sharma Chakravarthy, University of Texas at Arlington, USA .
Subhash Bhalla, University of Aizu, Japan
R K Arora, Ex-Prof. IIT Delhi, India
Rattan Datta, Ex-Director, IMD, India
N Vijayaditya. Former DG, NIC, India

General Chair:
D Janakiram, IIT Madras, India

Program Committee Chairs:
Vasudha Bhatnagar, University of Delhi, India
Srinath Srinivasa, IIIT Bangalore, India

Organizing Committee:
Shalini Urs, ISiM, Mysore, India (Chair)
Abhinanda Sarkar, MYRA School of Business, India
Naveen Kumar, University of Delhi, India
Subhash Bhalla, University of Aizu, Japan

Publicity and Proceedings Chairs:
Subhash Bhalla, University of Aizu, Japan
Naveen Kumar, University of Delhi, India

Industry Chair:
Vijay Srinivas Agneeswaran, Impetus Labs, India

Tutorials Chair:
Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA

Program Committee:
Srikanta Bedathur, IIIT Delhi, India
Subhash Bhalla, University of Aizu, Japan
Raj Bhatnagar, University of Cincinnati, USA
Arnab Bhattacharya, IIT Kanpur, India
Indrajit Bhattacharya, IBM Research, India
Gao Cong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prasad Deshpande, IBM Research, India
Lipika Dey, TCS Innovation Labs Delhi, India
Dejing Dou, University of Oregon, USA
Rajeev Gupta, IBM Research, India
Sharanjit Kaur, University of Delhi, India
Akhil Kumar, Penn State University, USA
Naveen Kumar, University of Delhi, India
Choudur Lakshminarayan, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA
Ravi Madipadaga, Carl Zeiss, India
Sameep Mehta, IBM Research, India
Mukesh Mohania, IBM Research, India
Yasuhiko Morimoto, Hiroshima University, Japan
Joydeb Mukherjee, Impetus Labs, India
Saikat Mukherjee, Siemens Research, India
Mandar Mutalikdesai, Siemens Research, India
Hariprasad Nellitheertha, Intel, India
Anjaneyulu Pasala, Infosys Labs, India
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Jyoti Pawar Goa University, India
Lukas Pichl, International Christian University, Japan
Krishna Reddy Polepalli, IIIT Hyderabad, India
Kompalli Pramod, IIIT Hyderabad, India
Mangsuli Purnaprajna, Honeywell Labs, India
Sriram Raghavan, IBM Research, India
S Rajagopalan, IIIT Bangalore, India
Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, City University London, UK
Raman Ramakrishnan, Honeywell Labs, India
Maya Ramanath, IIT Delhi, India
Chandrashekar Ramanathan, IIIT Bangalore, India
Srinivasan Sengamedu, Komli Labs, India
Mark Sifer, University of Wollongong, Australia
Shamik Sural, IIT Kharagpur, India
Ashish Sureka, IIIT Delhi, India
Asoke Talukder, Intrepretomics Labs, India
Srikanta Tirthapura, Iowa State University, USA