Call for papers
Special Issue on Big Data and Cloud Computing for Scientific Applications, International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE)
http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-systems-service-oriented/1155

Important Dates
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Manuscript Due: July 30, 2015
First Round of Reviews due: Sept. 30, 2015
Final Camera-Ready due: Oct. 30, 2015
Publication Date: Feb. 2016

Guest Editors
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Dr. Shiping Chen, CSIRO, Australia, Email: Shiping.Chen@csiro.au
Dr. Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia, Email: Surya.Nepal@csiro.au
Dr. Keman Huang, Tianjin University, China, Email: keman.huang@tju.edu.cn

Introduction
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In recent decades, big data and cloud computing have played important roles for enabling and scaling scientific and novel applications, systems and services. Cloud computing has become a cost-effective tool for enterprises and organizations to delivery their applications, systems and services. Furthermore, the development of the big-data-oriented methodologies enable the capability to deal with the explosive growth of data nowadays.
Objective Often, it has been observed that how to address the growing needs of both big data applications and cloud computing paradigm for scientific applications emerges as an important and valuable issue. The aim of this special issue is to provide a platform for the researchers, scholars, academicians, and practitioners from different parts of the globe to share their experiences, focusing on how to model, execute, and monitor scientific and novel applications, systems and services based on big data and cloud computing.
Scholarly papers are invited from all over the world for publication in this issue.
Recommended Topics.

Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:
? Big data analytics on Clouds
? Enabling applications using distributed systems
? Architectural Models for scaling of applications
? Novel applications for cloud computing, including games and social networks
? Novel cloud programming models
? Innovative cloud service models
? Support for scalable and elastic cloud services
? Cloud support for mobile applications and Content Delivery Networks
? Reliability of applications and services running on the cloud
? Performance monitoring for cloud applications
? Cloud use-case studies
? Scientific computing in the cloud
? Business computing in the cloud
? Social computing in the cloud

Submission Procedure
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Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their original empirical research articles 3,000–5,000 words in length. Interested authors must consult the journal’s guidelines for manuscript submissions at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted articles will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis by no fewer than 3 members of the journal’s Editorial Review Board and 1 Associate Editor. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers and at the sole discretion of the special issue guest editor.

All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of:
Dr. Shiping Chen, CSIRO, Australia Email: Shiping.Chen@csiro.au
Dr. Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Email: Surya.Nepal@csiro.au
Dr. Keman Huang, Tianjin University, China Email: keman.huang@tju.edu.cn