Introduction
In recent years, advances in Web technology and the proliferation of sensors and mobile devices connected to the Internet have resulted in the generation of immense data sets available on the Web that need to be processed and stored. Cloud computing has emerged as a paradigm that promises to meet these requirements. Cloud computing is an extremely successful paradigm of service-oriented computing, and has revolutionized the way computing infrastructure is abstracted and used. Cloud computing is associated with service provisioning and these services are based on processing and analyzing huge volumes of data. Big data management in cloud computing environments has been proposed in recent years and is receiving increasing attention. By means of cloud computing technology, massive data can be managed effectively and efficiently to support various aspects of problem solving and decision making. Data management in cloud computing environments is a field which must be investigated by academic researchers together with developers.

Recommended Topics
• Data stores in cloud computing environments
• Data index in cloud computing environments
• Data queries in cloud computing environments
• Data share, exchange and integration in cloud computing environments
• Knowledge representation and reasoning in cloud computing environments
• Personalization in data management in cloud computing environments
• Information security in cloud computing environments
• Benchmarks for data management in cloud computing environments
• Data and knowledge cloud systems
• Domain-specific data and knowledge cloud applications

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before September 30, 2014, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by October 15, 2014 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by November 30, 2014. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
All proposals should be submitted through the link http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/1414.

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2015.

Important Dates
September 30, 2014: Proposal Submission Deadline
October 15, 2014: Notification of Acceptance
November 30, 2014: Full Chapter Submission
February 15, 2015: Review Results Returned
March 15, 2015: Final Acceptance Notification
March 30, 2015: Final Chapter Submission

Inquiries
Professor Zongmin Ma
College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China
Telephone: 86-24-836-81582 • Fax: 86-24-836-81582
E-mail: call.for.submission@gmail.com