Big‐Data computing and Services are receiving significant attention recently. The IEEE BigDataService 2016 conference provides a platform for researchers and practitioners to exchange innovative ideas, latest research results, as well as practical experience and lessons learnt on this topic. Its major interests include big‐data applications in various domains such as healthcare, business and financing, education and learning, social networks and media, smart environment, sensors and Internet of Things as well as technology aspects such as computing services and architecture, modeling, data mining and analytics, and databases. The conference program will consist of research tracks, application tracks, and industry tracks. The conference will be co-located with IEEE SOSE 2016, IEEE MobileCloud 2016, and IEEE Crowd Sourcing 2016.

Research Tracks:
• Computing and services
• Big Data Security and Privacy
• Modeling, sharing technologies & platforms
• Big Data validation, certification, and QA
• Databases, frameworks, and technologies
• Big Data Management
• Analytics, Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering
• Data center-enabled technologies
• Sensing & Internet of Things
• Networking and social networks

Application Tracks
• Energy and environment
• Bio-medical and healthcare
• Smart city and transportation
• Education and learning
• Business intelligence, finance, and management
• Library and information banking
• Social, media, and government

Industry Tracks:
• Emerging Big Data Platforms for Enterprises
• Industrial Solutions for Big Data Applications
• Challenges in Adoption of Big Data Technologies

Submission:
All papers should be prepared using the IEEE format. Research and survey papers are limited to 10 pages, application and industry track papers 6 pages. See the conference website for submission instructions.

Publication:
All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press (EI‐Index) and included in IEEE Digital Library. Selected papers (extended versions) will be published in selected journals (SCI‐Index)

Conference Chairs:
Longbing Cao, Univ. of Technology, Sydney, AU
Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK

PC Chairs:
Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA
Martin Giese, University of Oslo, Norway
Yifeng Zeng, Teesside University, UK

Important Dates:
Abstract submission: 1 Nov 2015
Full Paper submission: 15 Nov 2015
Acceptance notification: 9 Jan 2016
Final version: 31 Jan 2016