* Call for papers *

BEYONDMR'18
The 5th Workshop on Algorithms and Systems for MapReduce and Beyond, Jun 15, 2018.
https://sites.google.com/site/beyondmr2018/

Held in conjunction with SIGMOD 2018
Houston, TX, USA, Jun 10-15, 2018
http://sigmod2018.org/


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WORKSHOP FOCUS
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The BeyondMR workshop aims to explore algorithms, computational models, architectures, languages and interfaces for systems that need large-scale parallelization and systems designed to support efficient parallelization and fault tolerance. These include specialized programming and data-management systems based on MapReduce and extensions, graph processing systems, data-intensive workflow and dataflow systems.

We invite submission on topics such as:

* Cost models: Formal models that evaluate the efficiency of algorithms in large-scale parallel systems taking into account the different architectural properties and parameters of such systems.

* Task Scheduling, Load-Balancing and Fault Tolerance: Methods and algorithms that avoid data and computational skew in large-scale parallel systems. Design of scheduling algorithms for balanced task distribution. Techniques for supporting fault-tolerance.

* Algorithms and Applications: Algorithmic design for specific data processing tasks in large-scale parallel systems. These include query processing and graph processing tasks, iterative and recursive computational tasks, machine learning and general data analytics. Applications built using large-scale parallel systems.

* New Parallel Architectures: Novel large-scale parallel architectures and systems that support various types of data processing tasks, such as graph processing, log processing, data analytics and machine learning. Extensions of current systems to provide additional functionality, improve performance, and support processing of more complex tasks.


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IMPORTANT DATES
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Papers submission deadline: Fri Feb 21, 2018
Authors notification: Sun Apr 1, 2018
Deadline for camera-ready copy: Sun Apr 15, 2018
Workshop: Fri Jun 15, 2018


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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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We invite full research or experience papers (up to 10 pages), or short papers (up to 4 pages) describing research in progress. Papers must follow the ACM Proceedings Format, using one of the templates provided from the ACM Web site (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) for LaTeX2e. The font size, margins, inter-column spacing, and line spacing in the templates must be kept unchanged. Submissions are handled through EasyChair via (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=beyondmr2018).

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PUBLICATION
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The workshop proceedings will be published in ACM DL and the organizers
will prepare a SIGMOD Record report.


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ORGANIZERS
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- Foto Afrati National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Jan Hidders Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
- Jacek Sroka University of Warsaw, Poland
- Jeffrey Ullman Stanford University
- Ke Yi Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China


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Program Committee
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Ke Yi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Foto Afrati, National Technical University of Athens
Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford University
Jan Hidders, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Jacek Sroka, University of Warsaw
Sourav S Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University
Paris Koutris, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Frank McSherry
Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University
Fabio Porto, National Laboratory of Scientific Computation
Sergei Vassilvitskii, Google
Semih Salihoglu, University of Waterloo
Francesco Silvestri, University of Padova
Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Dan Suciu, University of Washington
Yufei Tao, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sebastian Michel, University of Kaiserslautern
Krzysztof Rzadca, University of Warsaw
Mark Santcroos, Leiden University Medical Center
Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge
Krzysztof Onak, IBM Research
Asterios Katsifodimos, Delft University of Technology
Dionysios Logothetis, Facebook
Zhengkui Wang, Singapore Institute of Technology
Todd Green,
Theo Vassilakis, Microsoft
Ahmed Eldawy, University of California, Riverside
Qin Zhang, Indiana University, Bloomington
Grigory Yaroslavtsev Indiana University, School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering
Andreas Kunft Technical University of Berlin