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The Sixth International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data (CBD 2018)
Aug 12-15, 2018, Lanzhou, China
Website: http://cbd.seu.edu.cn/cbd2018/
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Scope and Topics
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The International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data (CBD) provides a forum for both academics and practitioners working on cloud computing and big data technologies to explore new ideas, share their experiences and leverage each other’s perspectives. Besides the latest research achievements, this conference also covers cloud/big data industry practices and their broad applications, and gives all participants a chance to identify the new/emerging “hot” trends in these areas. 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 Security and Privacy
- Cloud Data Center Networking
- Cloud Virtualization
- Cloud Storage
- Cloud Resource Management
- Multi/Hybrid/Inter Cloud
- Big Data Processing/Mining/Query
- Cloud Workflow Scheduling
- Cloud based Machine/Deep Learning
- Cloud-Edge Architecture/Algorithm
- Cloud based Industrial Internet
- Green Cloud

Industry Track
- Cloud Computing Solutions
- Cloud Computing Specifications/Standards
- Big Data in Economic Analytics
- Big Data in Smart City/Home
- Big Data in Industry Practices

Application Track
- Industrial Internet
- Mobile Edge Computing
- Machine/Deep Learning
- Social Networking
- Knowledge Graph

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Important Dates:
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- Paper submission deadline: May 21, 2018 (Final)
- Notification of acceptance: June 21, 2018
- Camera Ready Due: July 11, 2018
- Registration Due: July 11, 2018


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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 (Compendex). 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 (SCI-index) such as Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Tsinghua Science and Technology and etc.

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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=cbd2018) as PDF files. The review version is limited to 6 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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General Conference Co-Chairs
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- Bin Hu, Lanzhou University, China
- Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China
- Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
- Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA

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Program Committee Co-Chairs
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- Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hongkong, China
- Qingguo Zhou, Lanzhou University, China
- Fang Dong, Southeast University, China

For more information about the conference, organizing committee, submission instructions, and venue please visit the conference website:
http://cbd.seu.edu.cn/cbd2018/