CALL FOR PAPERS
6th EIDWT-2018 CONFERENCE

The 6th International Conference on Emerging Internet, Data & Web Technologies

March 15-17, 2018
Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania

The conference website: http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/eidwt/2018/


THE CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE:
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-PROCEEDINGS PUBLISHED BY Lectures Notes, Springer
(INDEXED IN ISI PROCEEDINGS)

-SEVERAL SPECIAL ISSUES in International Journals (Sci Indexed / EI Indexed) are planned
Computing, Springer
International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining, IGI
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Springer
International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, Inderscience

-KEYNOTES BY DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORS

-EXCELLENT SOCIAL PROGRAM IN TIRANA, ALBANIA


IMPORTANT DATES:
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*****Submission Deadline: November 15th, 2017*****
Authors Notification: December 30th, 2017
Authors Registration: January 10th, 2018
Final Manuscript: January 10th, 2018
Conference Dates: March 15th-17th, 2018


TOPICS
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The 6th International Conference on Emerging Internet, Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT-2018) is dedicated to the dissemination of original contributions that are related to the theories, practices and concepts of emerging Internet, Data and Web technologies yet most importantly of their applicability in business and academia towards a collective intelligence approach. EIDWT-2018 will discuss advances in information networking and exploitation of data generated from emerging data technologies such as Data Centers, Data Grids and Clouds.

The aim of EIDWT-2018 is to discuss methods and practices which bring various Internet and emerging data technologies together to capture, integrate, analyze, mine and visualize data and made available from various community users.

The EIDWT-2018 provides a forum for original discussion and prompt future directions in the area. The main topic areas include, but are not limited to:

Internet Protocols, Modelling and Optimization
Network and Data Security, Trust and Reputation
Big Data and Cloud Computing
Mobile and Wireless Networks
P2P and Grid Computing
Distributed and Parallel Systems
Ontologies and Metadata Representation
Knowledge Discovery and Mining
Databases and Data Warehouses
Data Centers and IT Virtualization Technologies
Web Science and Business Intelligence
Data Analytics for Learning and Virtual Organizations
Data Management and Information Retrieval
Machine Learning on Large Data Sets & Massive Processing
Data Modeling, Visualization and Representation Tools
Nature Inspired Computing
Data Sensing, Integration and Querying Systems and Interfaces
e-Science Data Sets, Repositories, Digital Infrastructures
Energy-aware and Green Computing in Data Centers

SUBMISSION
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Papers must be submitted electronically by ***Submission Deadline: November 15th, 2017***
(see conference webpage for details, http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/eidwt/2018/submission.php)


Submit paper: http://edas.info/N23886
Conference registration: http://edas.info/r23886

Submitted papers should be original and contain contributions of theoretical, experimental or application nature, or be unique experience reports.

Authors should submit a paper to the main conference with maximum 12 pages in length, including all figures, tables, and references, according to Lecture Notes style.

http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/eidwt/2018/submission.php

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings of Lecture Notes in Data Engineering and Communication Technologies series published by Springer.
** Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to ISI Proceedings/Web of Science, MetaPress, Springerlink **


CONFERENCE CHAIRPERSONS
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General Co-Chairs

Vladi Kolici, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania
Tomoya Enokido, Rissho University, Japan
Santi Caballé, Open University of Catalonia, Spain

Program Co-Chairs

Evjola Spaho, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania
Nadeem Javaid, COMSATS Institute of IT, Pakistan
Flora Amato, Naples University Frederico II, Italy

International Advisory Committee

Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
Akio Koyama, Yamagata University, Japan
Arjan Durresi, IUPUI, USA
Hiroaki Nishino, Oita University, Japan


CONFERENCE TRACKS
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Track Area

1. Databases, Knowledge Discovery, Semantics and Mining

Track Chairs:

Giuseppe Fenza, University of Salerno, Italy
Jugappong Natwichai, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

PC Members:

Pruet Boonma, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Xue Li, The University of Queensland, Australia
Bowonsak Srisungsittisunti, University of Phayao, Thailand
Xingzhi Sun, IBM Research, Australia
Pornthep Rojanavasu, University of Phayao, Thailand
Alex Pongpech, National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand
Panachit Kittipanya-ngam, Electronic Government Agency, Thailand
Francesco Orciuoli, University of Salerno, Italy
Mariacristina Gal, University of Salerno, Italy
Néstor Álvarez-Díaz, University of La Laguna, Spain
Moisés Lodeiro-Santiago, University of La Laguna, Spain
Francisco Javier Cabrerizo, Distance Learning University of Spain (UNED), Spain

2. Ontologies, Metadata Representation and Digital Libraries

Track Chairs:

Titela Vilceanu, University of Craiova, Romania
Salvatore Ventiqincue, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy

PC Members:

TBA

3. P2P, Grid and Cloud Computing

Track Chairs:

Hiroshi Shigeno, Keio University, Japan
Klodiana Goga, ISMB, Italy

PC Members:

Harold Castro, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Olivier Terzo, ISMB, Turin, Italy
Philip Moore, Lanzhou University, China
Pietro Ruiu, ISMB, Turin, Italy
Alberto Scionti, ISMB, Turin, Italy
Giuseppe Caragnano, ISMB, Turin, Italy
Giovanni Masala, Plymouth University, UK

4. Parallel and Distributed Systems

Track Chairs:

Giovanni Morana, C3DNA, USA
Naohiro Hayashibara, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan

PC Members:

Lucian, Prodan, Polytechnic University Timisoara, Romania
Md. Abdur, Razzaque, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ji, Zhang, The University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Ragib, Hasan, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Antonella Di Stefano, University of Catania, Italy
Rao Mikkilineni, C3dna, USA
Douglas D.J. de Macedo, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brasil
Ilias Savvas, TEI of Larissa, Greece
Andrea Araldo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

5. Networked Data Centers, IT Virtualization Technologies and Clouds

Track Chairs:

Gabriele Mencagli, University of Pisa, Italy
Mennan Selimi, University of Cambridge (Computer Laboratory), UK

PC Members:

Felix Freitag, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Amin M. Khan, Pentaho, Hitachi Data Systems, Japan
Albin Ahmeti, TU Wien, Austria
Besim Bilalli, University Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Leila Sharifi, Urmia University, Iran
Christoph Hochreiner, TU Wien (Distributed System Group), Austria
Ruben Mayer, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Stefano Forti, University of Pisa, Italy
Dalvan Griebler, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Massimo Torquati, University of Pisa, Italy

6. Network Protocols, Modelling, Optimization and Performance Evaluation

Track Chairs:

Bhed Bista, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Fabrizio Messina, University of Catania, Italy

PC Members:

Éric Renault, Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom SudParis, France
Douglas Macedo, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil
Lidia Fotia, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria (DIIES), Italy
Ilias Savvas, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, T.E.I. of Thessaly, Greece
Matthias Steinbauer, Onlinegroup.at creative online systems, Austria
Jiahong Wang, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Shigetomo​ ​Kimura, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Chotipat Pornavalai, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand
Danda B. Rawat, Howard University, USA
Gongjun Yan, University of Southern Indiana, USA
Sachin​ ​Shetty​, ​Old Dominion University​, USA
7. Data Security, Trust and Reputation

Track Chairs:

Mirang Park, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan
Francesco Palmieri, University of Salerno, Italy

PC Members:

Shigetomo Kimura, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Toshihiro Yamauchi, Okayama University, Japan
Hiroaki Yamamoto, Shinshu University, Japan
Naonobu Okazaki, University of Miyazaki, Japan
Francesco Palmieri, University of Salerno, Italy
Arcangelo Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy
Raffaele Pizzolante, University of Salerno, Italy
Ugo Fiore, Federico II University of Napoli, Italy
Sergio Ricciardi, Barcelonatech, Spain

8. Web Science, Learning and Business Intelligence

Track Chairs:

Ana Azevedo, ISCAP, Porto, Portugal
Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal

PC Members:

Alvaro, Figueira, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences - University of Porto, Portugal
Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal
Marina Ribaudo, University of Genoa, Italy
Sotirios Kontogiannis, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Ioannina, Greece

9. Data Analytics for Learning and Virtual Organisations

Track Chairs:

Nobuo Funabiki, Okayama University, Japan
Marcello Trovati, Edge Hill University, UK

PC Members:

Shinji Sugawara, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan
Kazuyoshi Kojima, Saitama University, Japan
Tomoya Kawakami, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Makoto Fujimura, Nagasaki University, Japan
Kiyoshi Ueda, Nihon University, Japan
Yoshinobu Tamura, Tokyo City University, Japan
Dr Mohsen Farid, University of Derby, Japan
Richard Conniss, University of Derby, UK
Dr Georgios Kontonatsios, Edge Hill University, UK
Jeffrey Ray, Edge Hill University

10. Data Management and Information Retrieval

Track Chairs:

Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Carmen de Maio, University of Salerno, Italy

PC Members:

Francesco Orciuoli, University of Salerno, Italy
Stefania Tomasiello, University of Salerno, Italy
Neha Warikoo, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Stefania Boffa, Università dell'Insubria, Italy
Chang Yung-Chun Teipei Medical University, Italy
Salem Alkhalaf, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia
Osama Alfarraj, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Thamer AlHussain, Saudi Electronic University, Saudi Arabia
Mukesh Prasad, University of Technology, Australia

11. Massive Processing and Machine Learning on Large Data Sets

Track Chairs:

Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy
Douglas Macedo, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil

PC Members:

Yue Zhao, National Institutes of Health, USA
Pelle Jakovits, University of Tartu, Estonia
Gustavo Medeiros de Araujo, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Diego Kreutz, Universidade Federal do Pampa, Brazil
Fabrizio Marozzo, University of Calabria, Italy
Marwan Hassani, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Sofian Maabout, Bordeaux University, France

12. Data Modeling, Visualization and Representation Tools

Track Chairs:

Omar Hussain, UNSW Canberra, Australia
Matthias Steinbauer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

PC Members:

TBA

13. Nature Inspired Computing for Emerging Collective Intelligence

Track Chairs:

Pavel Kromer, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Aboul Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt

PC Members:

TBA

14. IoT and Fog Computing

Track Chairs:

Benoît Parrein, Polytech Nantes, France
Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

PC Members:

Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna,, Italy
Victor Kardeby, RISE Acreo, Sweden
Dimitri Pertin, INRIA Nantes, France
Stefano Secci, LIP6, University Paris 6, France
Suayb Arslan, MEF University, Istanbul, Turkey
Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Congduc Pham, University of Pau, France
Vlado Stankovski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania

15. Mobile and Wireless Networks

Track Chairs:

Bexhet Kamo, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania
Elis Kulla, Okayama University of Science, Japan

PC Members:

Kengo Katayama, Okayama University of Science, Japan
Isaac Woungang, Ryerson University, Canada
Bhed Bista, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Akira Uejima, Okayama University of Science, Japan
Tetsuya Oda, Okayama University of Science, Japan
Algenti Lala, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania
Olimpjon Shurdi, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania
Elson Agastra, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania
Alban Rakipi, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania
Shkelzen Cakaj, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania

16. Big data management and scalable storage technologies

Track Chairs:

Shadi Ibrahim, Inria Rennes, France
Pruet Boonma, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

PC Members:

Sivadon Chaisiri, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Long Cheng, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherland
Houssem Chihoub, Grenoble Institue of Technology, France
Chonho Lee, Osaka University, Japan
Catalin Leordeanu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore
Anis Yazidi, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
Amelie Chi Zhou, ShenZhen University, China

17. Energy-aware and Green Computing Systems

Track Chairs:

Evangelos Pournaras, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Tomoya Enokido, Rissho University, Japan

PC Members:

Omar Khadeer Hussain, University of New South Wales, Australia
Akio Koyama, Yamagata University, Japan
Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
Minoru Uehara, Toyo University, Japan
Motoi Yamagiwa, University of Yamanashi, Japan
Florin Pop, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania
Akshay Uttama Nambi S.N, Microsoft Research India
Stefan Bosse, University of Bremen
Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherland
Per Ola Kristensson, University of Cambridge, UK

18. Multimedia Networking and Medical Applications

Track Chairs:

Hiroaki Nishino, Oita University, Japan
Sajal Mukhopadhyay, National Institute of Technology, India

PC Members:

Hiroaki Nishino, Oita University, Japan
Makoto Fujimura, Nagasaki University, Japan
Nobukazu Iguchi, Kindai University, Japan
Makoto Nakashima, Oita University, Japan
Yoshihiro Okad, Kyushu University, Japan
Toshiya Takami, Oita University, Japan
Kenzi Watanabe, Hiroshima University, Japan

19. Applied Cryptography and Cloud Security

Track Chairs:

Xu An Wang, Engineering University of CAPF,China
Mingwu Zhang, Hubei University of Technology,China

PC Members:

Guangquan Xu, Tianjing University, China
Yang Lei, Engineering University of CAPF, China
Yuechuan Wei, Engineering University of CAPF, China
Minghu Wu, Hubei University of Technology,China
Zhiqiang Gao, Engineering University of CAPF, China
Xuan Guo, Officer's University of CAPF, China
Xiaoou Song, Engineering University of CAPF, China
Yongqiang Li, Xi'an High Technology Research Institute, China
Ling Chen, Yangtze University, China
Leyou Zhang, Xidian University, China
Zhenhua Chen, Xi'an University of Technology, China