[AISWorld] CFP: The 2nd International Conference on Open and Big Data

[OBD Conference]

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The 2nd International Conference on Open and Big Data (OBD 2016)

22-24 August 2016, Vienna, Austria

http://www.ficloud.org/obd2016/
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Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE CS-TCI.
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Data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and
governmental organizations. Big Data encompasses various kinds of complex
and large scale information that are beyond the processing capabilities of
conventional software and databases. Open Data on the other hand can make
Big Data more useful and widely accessible. The combination of Open and Big
data can benefit users, developers, companies and various kinds of
organizations to carry out useful analysis of data pattern and trends, make
intelligent decisions, and solve complex problems that can help societies
and economies and speed up innovations.

The aim of the Open and Big Data conference (OBD 2016) is to promote the
state of the art in scientific and practical research of open and big data
and to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia,
industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and
share research and development ideas.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Challenges and opportunities in open and big data
- Data models and architectures
- Security, privacy, and trust
- Data protection and integrity
- Identity theft, data loss and leakage
- Legal and ethical issues
- Data analytics and metrics
- Data representation and structures
- Data management and processing
- Data capturing and acquisition
- Tools and technologies
- QoS in open and big data
- Social networks analysis
- Data searching and mining
- Visualisation of data
- Personal data logging and quantified-self
- Context-aware data
- Personalisation of data
- Data economics
- Applications of open and big data
- Open and linked data
- Methodologies and use cases
- Usability issues
- Storages and network requirements
- Network models and protocols
- Open and big data in cloud and IoT

PUBLICATION:

All papers accepted for this conference are planned to be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing
Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the
IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also
submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and
other indexing services;

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of
their papers for a special issues in international journals (see Journal
Special Issues section).

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: 10 March 2016
Authors Notification: 30 May 2016
Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2016

General Chair:
A Min Tjoa, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

Program Co-Chairs:
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Jamal Bentahar, University of Concordia, Canada

Local Organising Chairs:
Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria
Christine Strauss, University of Vienna, Austria

Publication Chair:
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Workshop Coordinator:
Lay Ki Soon, Multimedia University, Malaysia

Journal Special Issues Coordinator:
Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Publicity Chair:
Bilan Zhu, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

Advisory Committee:
Salima Benbernou, Universite Paris Descartes, France
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Katarzyna Wac, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Keith Jeffery, Independent Consultant and Ex-Director IT at STFC RAL, UK
Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania
Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia