Call For Papers
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DaMiC 2012 - The International Workshop on Data Analytics and Mining in
the Cloud (http://damic.reading.ac.uk)
In conjunction with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud
Computing Technology and Science (IEEE CloudCom 2012, http://2012.cloudcom.org)
Taipei, Taiwan, December 3-6, 2012
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Important Dates
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Paper Submissions: August 20, 2012 (extended)
Notification: September 10, 2012
Camera ready: September 28, 2012
Workshop date: December 3-6, 2012

Workshop Description
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The Workshop intends to provide an opportunity to researchers and
practitioners to present and discuss current research directions and
open issues in adopting Data Mining and Predictive Analytics tools in
Cloud Computing. The Workshop intends to facilitate the exchange of
ideas between two main research communities, Cloud Computing and Data
Mining. It also intends to attract scientists from other disciplines
like Mathematics, Biology, Neuroscience, etc., which ultimately benefit
from mining their data in the Cloud.
Papers describing original research on both theoretical and practical
aspects of Data Analytics and Mining in the Cloud are solicited. Topics
include, but are not limited to:
• Predictive Analytics in Cloud Computing, Data Mining workflows in
Cloud Computing, Data mining tools as SaaS and PaaS
• Integration of Predictive Models in Cloud environments, e.g., the
Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML);
• Integration of tools for data mining and business intelligence
• Distributed and Parallel Data Mining
• Mining Big Data, Hadoop, MapReduce
• Fault-tolerant Data Mining
• Online Learning on Data Streams
• Data security and privacy issues in Cloud Computing
• Predictive Analytics and Data Mining supporting Configuration,
Management and Monitoring of Cloud Computing infrastructures,
Distributed Systems, Federated Databases and Large-Scale Networked
Applications
We also welcome submissions on reports of Data Mining applications based
on Cloud Computing of particular interest. Application domains include,
but are not limited to:
• Data Networks, Autonomous and Autonomic Networks, Mobile ad-hoc
Networks (MANET), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), Internet of Things
• Bioinformatics, System Biology, Neuroscience, Chemoinformatics
• Statistics, Astronomy, Physics, Meteorology
• Medicine and Health Care

Workshop Chairs
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Dr. Latifur Khan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Cudi Okur, Yasar University, Turkey
Dr. Giuseppe Di Fatta, The University of Reading, UK

Publicity Chair
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Francesco Bianchi, The University of Reading, UK

Submissions
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This workshop will only accept for review original papers that have not
been previously published. Papers should be formatted based on the IEEE
Transactions journals and conferences style; maximum allowed
camera-ready paper length is six (6) pages. Submissions must be in Adobe
PDF format, including text, figures and references.
Accepted papers will be published in the Cloudom2011 proceedings, for
further information see the IEEE CloudCom 2012 web page
(http://2012.cloudcom.org/).

Proceedings
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Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE CloudCom 2012 Proceedings
volume published by IEEE Computer Society Press (also included in the
IEEE Xplore Digital Library).

Technical Program Committee
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Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA
Ethem Alpaydin, Bogazici University, Turkey
Ismail Ari, Özyegin University, Turkey
Michael R. Berthold, University of Konstanz, Germany
Albert Bifet, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Italy
Filip De Turck, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium
Bart Dhoedt, University of Gent, Belgium
Wei Fan, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA
Leila Fayez Ismail, UAE University, United Arab Emirates
Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
Jing Gao, University at Buffalo, USA
Alex Guazzelli, Zementis, USA
Yike Guo, Imperial College, UK
Malcolm I. Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada
Benoit Hudzia, SAP Research, CEC Belfast, UK
Giuseppe Italiano, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Lu Liu, University of Derby, UK
Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
Maurizio A. Urso, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Ran Wolff, Haifa University, Israel
George Yee, Carleton University, Canada

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Contact: G.DiFatta@reading.ac.uk