Submissions may be targeted within, but not limited to, the following major topics and sub-topics:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Real-Time Big Data Analytics

  • Techniques and Algorithms for Real-Time Big Data Analytics
  • Applications and Evaluation of Real-Time Big Data Systems

Big Data / Smart Cities

  • Big Data for Improving Resilient Infrastructures
  • Big Data Applications such as Healthcare and Transportation

Smart Computing Concepts, Models and Algorithms

  • Future Smart Computing Paradigms
  • Models of Smart Environments
  • Algorithms for Smart Computing

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

Smart Computing Applications

  • Smart Precision Agriculture
  • Smart Transportation
  • Smart FinTech
  • Smart Food-Energy-Water Nexus

Smart Computing Applications (cont.)

  • Smart Health
  • Smart Communities
  • Smart Human Environments, Entertainment, and Social Activities
  • Smart Energy Management and Analytics