Big Data and Analytics track
of the 6th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2015)

London, United Kingdom
June 2-5, 2015

Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-15/
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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper Submission: January 10, 2015
- Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2015
- Camera-Ready Submission: April 1, 2015

TOPICS
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The goal of the ANT-2015 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in the ambient systems paradigm, infrastructures, models, and technologies that have significant contributions to the advancement of ambient systems theory, practices and their applications.

Topics of the Big Data and Analytics track include, but are not limited to:
- (Big) Data governance
- (Big) Data integration, replication and dissemination
- Data as a service
- Data cleansing and data transformation
- Data quality, privacy and security
- Data mining theories and applications
- Data mobility and location management
- Data replication, migration and dissemination
- Data mobility and location management
- Data personalization, privacy and security
- Data science/Analytics/Data Mining: theories and applications
- Database and data mining tools, devices and technologies
- Database query processing
- Distributed and parallel database
- Enterprise Information Management and (Big) Data Architecture
- Information retrieval and filtering
- Metadata Management
- Multimedia databases
- NoSQL databases
- Requirements management and data modelling

All ANT-2015 accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia

Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Selected papers will be invited for publication in special issues of international journals.


TRACK CHAIRS
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Wilfried Lemahieu, KU Leuven, Belgium
Monique Snoeck, KU Leuven, Belgium
Bart Baesens, KU Leuven, Belgium


TRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Estefanía Serral Asensio, KU Leuven, Belgium
Amir Atya, Cairo University, Egypt
Arnulfo Azcarraga, De La Salle University, the Philippines
Laure Berti, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Quatar
Cristian Bravo, Universidad de Talca, Chile
Kristof Coussement, IESEG School of Management, France
Frank Goethals, IESEG School of Management, France
Stefan Lessmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Isabelle Linden, UNamur, Belgium
Sebastian Maldonado, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Geert Monsieur, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Oscar Pastor, Valencia University of Technology, Spain
Ming Ren, Renmin University of China, China
Yvonne Seow, University of Nottingham, Malaysia
Rudy Setiono, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Meko So, University of Southampton, UK
Koen Vanhoof, UHasselt, Belgium
Wouter Verbeke, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Richard Weber, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Philip Woodall, University of Cambridge, UK