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The Third International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data (CBD 2015)
October 30-November 1, 2015, Yangzhou, China
Website: http://cbd.yzu.edu.cn/cbd2015/index.html
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Publication
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All submitted papers will be reviewed by program committee members and selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers will be all published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be submitted for indexing to EI. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit revised and expanded version of their papers to be considered for publication in special issues of well-known international journals such as Mobile Information Systems (SCI), Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (SCI), Journal of Information Technology (SCI), Tsinghua Science and Technology (EI) and etc.

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Important Dates:
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- Extended Submission Deadline: July 31, 2015
- Notification of Acceptance: Sep 1, 2015
- Camera Ready Due: Sep 20, 2015
- Registration Due: Sep 20, 2015

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Scope and Topics
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The International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data (CBD) is a prestigious forum for researchers, practitioners, developers and users who are interested in cloud computing and big data to explore new ideas, techniques and tools, as well as to exchange experience. Besides the latest research achievements, this conference also covers innovative commercial data management systems, innovative commercial applications of cloud computing and big data technology, and experience in applying recent research advances to real-world problems. We solicit original papers on a wide range of cloud computing and big data topics that can be divided into three tracks but are not limited to:

Research Track
- Cloud Data Privacy
- Cloud Security
- Cloud Resource Management and Performance
- Cloud Data Management
- Storage Architecture of Cloud
- Green Cloud
- Networking Technologies for Data Center
- Virtualization Technologies
- Big Data Processing (Analytics, Querying, Mining)
- Big Data Storage and Management
- Big Data Graph algorithms

Industry Track
- Cloud Computing Solutions
- Cloud Computing Specifications and Standards
- Big Data Economic Analytics
- Big Data in Business Performance Management
- Big Data in Enterprise Models and Practices

Application Track
- Cloud Computing Platforms
- Mobile Cloud Computing Applications
- Big Data As A Service
- Big Data Platforms
- Big Data Toolkits

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Paper Submission
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Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE US Letter Format: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html and must be submitted via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbd20150) as PDF files. The review version is limited to 8 pages (IEEE proceedings format), including references and illustrations. Submitted papers should not be previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another conference or journal. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the paper.

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Program Committee Chairs
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General Conference Co-Chairs
- Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA
- Gene Fuh, IBM
Program Committee Co-Chairs
- Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China
- Garth Tschetter,IBM
- Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
- Ling Chen, Yangzhou University , Chin

FOR MORE INFORMATION about the conference, organizing committee, submission instructions, and venue please visit the conference website:
http://cbd.yzu.edu.cn/cbd2015/index.html