Call for papers:

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The Second International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data
CBD 2014
November 20-22, 2014, Huangshan, Anhui, China
Website: http://cbd.seu.edu.cn/cbd2014/
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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 such as Cluster Computing (SCI),Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (SCI), International Journal of Cloud Computing, Tsinghua Science and Technology(EI), Journal of Southeast University (English Edition)(EI), and etc.
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Important Dates:
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- Extended submission deadline: Aug 31, 2014
- Notification of acceptance: Sep 30, 2014
- Camera Ready Due: Oct 20, 2014
- Registration Due: Oct 30, 2014

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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 who are working on cloud computing and big data technologies to explore new ideas, share their experience and leverage each other's perspectives. Besides the latest research achievements, this conference also covers some innovative commercial issues of cloud computing and big data, such as the commercial data management system, commercial applications, etc., and gives all participants a chance to identify the new/emerging "hot" trends in this important area. 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 CPS templates and must be submitted via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbd2014) as PDF files. The review version is limited to 8 pages (CPS 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
- You Chin Fuh, IBM
Program Committee Co-Chairs
- Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China
- Garth Tschetter, IBM
- Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada



FOR MORE INFORMATION about the conference, organizing committee, submission instructions, and venue please visit the conference website:
http://cbd.seu.edu.cn/cbd2014/