Big Data Infrastructure
      
        - Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing for Big Data
 
        - High Performance/Parallel Computing Platforms for Big Data
 
        - Autonomic Computing and Cyber-infrastructure, System Architectures, Design and Deployment
 
        - Energy-efficient Computing for Big Data
 
        - Programming Models and Environments for Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing to Support Big Data
 
        - Software Techniques and Architectures in Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing
 
        - Big Data Open Platforms
 
        - New Programming Models for Big Data beyond Hadoop/MapReduce, STORM
 
        - Software Systems to Support Big Data Computing
 
       
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      Big Data Management
      
        - Advanced database and Web Applications
 
        - Novel Data Model and Databases for Emerging Hardware
 
        - Data Preservation
 
        - Data Provenance
 
        - Interfaces to Database Systems and Analytics Software Systems
 
        - Data Protection, Integrity and Privacy Standards and Policies
 
        - Information Integration and Heterogeneous and Multi-structured Data Integration
 
        - Data management for Mobile and Pervasive Computing
 
        - Data Management in the Social Web
 
        - Crowdsourcing
 
        - Spatiotemporal and Stream Data Management
 
        - Scientific Data Management
 
        - Workflow Optimization
 
        - Database Management Challenges: Architecture, Storage, User Interfaces
 
       
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      Big Data Search and Mining
      
        - Social Web Search and Mining
 
        - Web Search
 
        - Algorithms and Systems for Big Data Search
 
        - Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search
 
        - Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency
 
        - Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices
 
        - Visualization Analytics for Big Data
 
        - Computational Modeling and Data Integration
 
        - Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems
 
        - Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining- Big Velocity Data
 
        - Link and Graph Mining
 
        - Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing
 
        - Mobility and Big Data
 
        - Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data
 
       
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      Big Data Security & Privacy
      
        - Intrusion Detection for Gigabit Networks
 
        - Anomaly and APT Detection in Very Large Scale Systems
 
        - High Performance Cryptography
 
        - Visualizing Large Scale Security Data
 
        - Threat Detection using Big Data Analytics
 
        - Privacy Threats of Big Data
 
        - Privacy Preserving Big Data Collection/Analytics
 
        - HCI Challenges for Big Data Security & Privacy
 
        - User Studies for any of the above
 
        - Sociological Aspects of Big Data Privacy
 
       
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      Big Data Applications
      
        - Complex Big Data Applications in Science, Engineering, Medicine, Healthcare, Finance, Business, Law, Education, Transportation, Retailing, Telecommunication
 
        - Big Data Analytics in Small Business Enterprises (SMEs)
 
        - Big Data Analytics in Government, Public Sector and Society in General
 
        - Real-life Case Studies of Value Creation through Big Data Analytics
 
        - Big Data as a Service
 
        - Big Data Industry Standards
 
        - Experiences with Big Data Project Deployments
 
       
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      Big Data Foundations
      
        - Novel Theoretical Models for Big Data
 
        - New Computational Models for Big Data
 
        - Data and Information Quality for Big Data
 
        - New Data Standards
 
       
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      Real-Time Big Data Analytics
      
        - Techniques and Algorithms for Real-Time Big Data Analytics
 
        - Applications and Evaluation of Real-Time Big Data Systems
 
       
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      Big Data / Smart Cities
      
        - Big Data for Improving Resilient Infrastructures
 
        - Big Data Applications such as Healthcare and Transportation
 
       
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      Smart Computing Concepts, Models and Algorithms
      
        - Future Smart Computing Paradigms
 
        - Models of Smart Environments
 
        - Algorithms for Smart Computing
 
       
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      Smart Computing Systems
      
        - Security, Privacy, and Economics in Smart Environments
 
        - Cyber-physical System Platforms for Smart Environments
 
        - Middleware Platforms for Smart Environments
 
        - Mobile and Ubiquitous Platforms for Smart Environments
 
       
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      Smart Computing Applications
      
        - Smart Precision Agriculture
 
        - Smart Transportation
 
        - Smart FinTech
 
        - Smart Food-Energy-Water Nexus
 
       
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      Smart Computing Applications (cont.)
      
        - Smart Health
 
        - Smart Communities
 
        - Smart Human Environments, Entertainment, and Social Activities
 
        - Smart Energy Management and Analytics
 
       
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