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<h2>Special Issue on Service and Cloud Based Data Integration</h2>
<h2><a
href="http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/journal/10723">Springer
Journal of Grid Computing</a></h2>
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<p><b><font size="+1">Introduction</font></b> </p>
<p> Integration and synthesis of heterogeneous, autonomous and
distributed data sources have been an essential and hard issue in
enterprise computing, scientific computing and social computing.
It is not always feasible to achieve effective data integration
around definite schemas when there are mismatches in cross-domain
integration and when such issues as compatibility, scalability,
timeliness, and user manipulation are concerned. Many traditional
data integration approaches/frameworks begin to show their
limitations, especially when dealing with situations like data
deluge and data source evolution. Service Oriented Architecture,
Cloud computing and Web 2.0 techniques have brought light to
dealing with these hard issues. Recent years have seen some
important progresses and potentials. Some "Data as a Service"
applications target fast, on-demand data integration and latest
data provisioning. Meanwhile, SOA is being employed by many large
projects to deal with data collection, integration and discovery
challenges across data repositories. </p>
<p> The Special Issue on Service and Cloud Based Data Integration
will provide the scientific and industrial community a dedicated
forum, within the prestigious Springer Journal of Grid Computing,
for presenting novel models, methodologies, and solution patterns
that address the data integration issue and fit in the service and
cloud based settings. This special issue will focus on the use of
service and/or cloud based technologies to meet the new data
integration challenges that are not well served by the current
approaches. We believe this venue will be an excellent place to
help researchers, practitioners and vendors in this community show
latest progresses, determine future goals, and present techniques
for future development of data integration.</p>
<p><b><font size="+1">Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to, the following:</font></b> </p>
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<li>Service Abstraction and Virtualization for Distributed Data
Integration </li>
<li>Modeling and Composition of Data Services </li>
<li>Scalability, Reliability and other Quality Assurance of Data
Integration </li>
<li>Correctness Verification and Freshness of Distributed Data
Integration Results </li>
<li>Performance Analysis and Optimization of Distributed Data
Integration Process </li>
<li>Agile and Ad-hoc Integration of Heterogeneous Data Sources </li>
<li>Automatic Tracing and Response of Changes and Updates </li>
<li>Real-time Integration and Processing of Large-scale Sensor
Data </li>
<li>Enterprise Mashup </li>
<li>User-friendly Mashup of Distributed Data Sources </li>
<li>Data Flow Modeling and Management in Cloud </li>
<li>Cloud-based Architectures for Distributed Data Integration </li>
<li>Applications of SOA and Cloud Infrastructure in Data
Integration
<p><b><font size="+1">Important Dates</font></b> </p>
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<li>Papers Due: <font color="red">November 15, 2012</font> </li>
<li>First Round Decisions: February 1, 2013
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<li>Major Revisions if needed: March 1, 2013 </li>
<li>Second Round Decisions: April 15, 2013 </li>
<li>Minor Revisions if needed: June 1, 2013 </li>
<li>Final Decision: July 1, 2013 </li>
<li>Publication Date: September 2013
<p><b><font size="+1">Paper Submission</font></b> </p>
<p> Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished
technical papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and
judged on correctness, originality, technical strength,
significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the
special issue topics of interest. Submitted papers may not
have appeared in or be under consideration for another
workshop, conference or a journal, nor may they be under
review or submitted to another forum during the review
process. Submitted papers may not exceed 20 single-spaced
double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch
pages (1" margins), including figures, tables, and references.
Note that accepted papers will likely be between 15 to 20
pages, depending on a variety of factors. For more information
for preparing the submitted papers, please see <a
href="http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/journal/10723">http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/journal/10723</a>,
under "Instructions for Authors". The papers (PDF format) must
be submitted online at <a href="http://grid.edmgr.com">http://grid.edmgr.com/</a>
before the deadline. Please specify the article type to be
"special issue: data integration" when submitting the paper on
the website. For any questions on the submission process,
please email the guest editors at <a
href="mailto:jgc.scdi.2013@gmail.com">jgc.scdi.2013@gmail.com</a>.</p>
<p><b><font size="+1">Special Issue Guest Editors</font></b> </p>
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<li>Yanbo Han (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:hanyanbo@ncut.edu.cn">hanyanbo@ncut.edu.cn</a>),
Research Center for Cloud Computing, North China University of
Technology, China </li>
<li>Jianwu Wang (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:jianwu@sdsc.edu">jianwu@sdsc.edu</a>), San Diego
Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego,
U.S.A.
<p><b><font size="+1">Editors-in-Chief</font></b> </p>
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<li>Peter Kacsuk, Hungarian Academy of Sciences </li>
<li>Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National
Laboratory </li>
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<p><b>More Information</b> </p>
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<li>The Call For Paper (CFP) information can also be found from
the <a
href="http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/journal/10723">Springer
Journal of Grid Computing</a> web site at its left side. It's
under 'Author Academy: Training for Authors' item, so you may
need click the downward arrow first. The direct link for the CFP
is <a
href="http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/CFP-%20Special+Issue+of+Journal+of+Grid+Computing.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1335517-%20p35498653">CFP
at Springer Website</a>. </li>
<li>The CFP page at the web site of Research Center for Cloud
Computing, North China University of Technology: <a
href="http://decloud.ncut.edu.cn/news/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-service-and-cloud-based-data-integration-springer-journal-of-grid-computing">The
CFP page at Research Center for Cloud Computing</a>. </li>
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Best wishes
Sincerely yours
Jianwu Wang
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jianwu@sdsc.edu">jianwu@sdsc.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://users.sdsc.edu/%7Ejianwu/">http://users.sdsc.edu/~jianwu/</a>
Assistant Project Scientist
Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies (SWAT) Laboratory
San Diego Supercomputer Center
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA, U.S.A. </pre>
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