Call for Papers

The 4th Saudi International Conference on Information Technology (Big Data Analysis)

6-9 November, 2016

Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

http://events.kacst.edu.sa/en/IT16/
twitter: @KACSTIT2016

Technical Co-Sponsorship
IEEE and IEEE Computer Society


The focus of KACSTIT 2016 conference is on big data related issues, including predictive and descriptive analytics, visualization, parallel computing and applications. We welcome papers, which are conceptual, argumentative or empirical. Both basic and applied research perspectives are welcome.


The main topics include, but not limited to:

• Data Science methodologies and practices
• Machine learning techniques and challenges in processing big data
• Distributed frameworks and infrastructures for processing Big Data
• Data acquisition, integration, validation, cleansing, and representation
• Crowdsourcing and collective intelligence
• Transaction and query processing, indexing and storage, and meta-data management
• Big data sharing, security and privacy Issues
• User and application programming interfaces to data platforms
• Visualization and summarization techniques
• Web and social media analytics
• Big data for Internet of Things
• Large scale natural language processing
• Multimedia (image, video, and sound) data processing
• Practical big data applications in: health, energy, oil and gas, transportation, aviation and aerospace, defense and security, Hajj, social medial, marketing, and e-commerce


Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit scientific papers not exceeding 8 pages.


Important Dates

Paper submission open: 1 March 2016
Deadline for submission: 15 May 2016
Notification of acceptance: 30 July 2016
Camera ready submission: 30 August 2016


General Chairs
Dr. Fares Al-Qunaieer

Co-Chairs
Dr. AbdulMalik Al-Salman
Dr. Mohamed Turki

Program Chairs
Dr. Abdulmohsen Althubaity
Dr. Waleed Alsabhan
Dr. Akila Sarirete
Dr. Tarek Abudawood
Dr. Abdullah Alrajeh
Dr. Yasser A. Altowim

Publication Chairs
Dr. Nasser-Eddine Rikli
Dr. Fares Al-Qunaieer
Dr. Waleed Alsanie

Publicity Chairs
Dr. Abdulmohsen Althubaity
Dr. Hussah Aleisa
Dr. Yasser A. Altowim

Exhibition and Sponsors Chair
Dr. Tarek Abudawood
Dr. Abdullah Alrajeh

Tutorial Chairs
Dr. Waleed Alsabhan
Dr. Hafidh AlSamarrai

Local Arrangements
Ahmad Alnafessah
Heelah Alraqibah
Ahmad Al-Harthi
Fahad Alzannan
Lamia Alkwai
Naelah Alageel
Riman Bin Sulaiman