FGCS 2014 - Special Issue at FGCS: Software Tools and Techniques for Big Data Computing in Healthcare Clouds

Novel software tools, techniques, and technologies for delivering Big
Data Analytics applications in the CLOUD, but not limited to:
- Innovative application case studies from healthcare
- Techniques for efficient non-SQL indexing of large,
heterogeneous health data set in hybrid clouds
- Ontologies and semantic computing for capturing and
representing heterogeneous healthcare data
- Cloud-deployable health data mining and analytics tools and technique
- Visualization tools and systems for healthcare applications
- Large data stream processing frameworks across multiple cloud
data centers
- Large incremental datasets management on cloud services
- QoS-based health application provisioning frameworks
- QoS optimization techniques for big data healthcare applications
- Techniques for preserving security and privacy of healthcare information
Important Dates
January 1, 2014 Paper submission deadline
April 1, 2014 First notification
June 1, 2014 Revision submission
July 1, 2014 Second notification
August 1, 2014 Final version submission
Paper Submission
The editors of the special issue are Lizhe Wang, Rajiv Ranjan, Joana
kolodziej, Albert Zomaya, and Leila Alem
Please submit a paper to FGCS EES for special issue by January 1, 2014
*Please select Special Issue Paper as your manuscript type, and enter
?Big Data Analytics Health Cloud? as both the Special Issue title and
as your Preferred Editor*
Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must
be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any
other journal or conference.
Previously published or accepted conference papers must contain at
least 30% new material to be considered for the special issue.
Submitted papers should be formatted according to the journal style.
For more detailed information concerning the requirements for
submission, please refer to the journal homepage at:
http://www.elsevier.com/journals/future-generation...
Selection and Evaluation Criteria
- Significance to the research community of the journal
- Relevance to the special issue
- Originality of research innovation, technical contribution, and
significance of the presented results
- Quality, clarity, and readability of the written text
- Quality of references and related work
- Quality of research hypothesis, assertions, and conclusion
Guest Editors
Prof. Lizhe Wang ? Corresponding Guest Editor
Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences
No.9 Dengzhuang South Road, Hadian District
Beijing 100094, P.R. China
Email:lzwang-AT-ceode.ac.cn
Dr. Rajiv Ranjan
Research Scientist and Project Leader,
CSIRO Computational Informatics,
GPO Box 664, Canberra, ACT 2601
Email: raj.ranjan-AT-csiro.au
Prof. Joanna Ko?odziej
Department of Computer Science,
Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science,
Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland
Email: jokolodziej-AT-pk.edu.pl
Prof. Albert Zomaya
Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow
Chair Professor of High Performance Computing & Networking
Director, Centre for Distributed and High Performance Computing
Email: albert.zomaya-AT-sydney.edu.au
Dr. Leila Alem
Principal Research Scientist,
CSIRO Computational Informatics,
Crn Vimiera and Pembroke Roads
Marsfield NSW 2122
Email:leila.alem-AT-csiro.au