ABDA 2014 - The 2014 International Conference on Advances in Big Data Analytics

ABDA'14 (The 2014 International Conference on Advances in Big Data Analytics)
will be composed of a number of tracks, including: tutorials, sessions,
workshops, posters, and panel discussions. The conference will be held
July 21-24, 2014, Las Vegas, USA.
SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
O ALGORITHMS FOR BIG DATA:
- Data and Information Fusion
- Genetic Algorithms
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Signal Processing
- Scalable Algorithms
- Simulation and Modeling
- Data-Intensive Computing
- Parallel Algorithms (including the map-reduce paradigm)
- Testing Methods
- Dimensionality Reduction Techniques
- Multidimensional Big Data
- Multilinear Subspace Learning
- Sampling Methodologies
- Streaming
O BIG DATA FUNDAMENTALS:
- Novel Computational Methodologies
- Algorithms for Enhancing Data Quality
- Models and Frameworks for Big Data
- Graph Algorithms and Big Data
- Computational Science
- Computational Intelligence
O INFRASTRUCTURES FOR BIG DATA:
- Cloud Based Infrastructures (applications, storage & computing resources)
- Grid and Stream Computing for Big Data
- High Performance Computing, Including Parallel & Distributed Processing
- Autonomic Computing
- Cyber-infrastructures and System Architectures
- Programming Models and Environments to Support Big Data
- Software and Tools for Big Data
- Big Data Open Platforms
- Emerging Architectural Frameworks for Big Data
- Paradigms and Models for Big Data beyond Hadoop/MapReduce, ...
O BIG DATA MANAGEMENT AND FRAMEWORKS:
- Database and Web Applications
- Federated Database Systems
- Distributed Database Systems
- Distributed File Systems
- Distributed Storage Systems
- Knowledge Management and Engineering
- Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) Databases
- Novel Data Models
- Data Preservation and Provenance
- Data Protection Methods
- Data Integrity and Privacy Standards and Policies
- Data Fusion and Integration
- Data Science
- Novel Data Management Methods
- Crowdsourcing
- Stream Data Management
- Scientific Data Management
O BIG DATA SEARCH & MINING METHODS:
- Multimedia and Big Data
- Data Mining
- Social Networks
- Data Science
- Web Search and Information Mining
- Scalable Search Architectures
- Cleaning Big Data (noise reduction), Acquisition & Integration
- Visualization Methods for Search
- Time Series Analysis
- Recommendation Systems
- Graph Mining and Other Similar Technologies
O SECURITY & PRIVACY IN THE ERA OF BIG DATA:
- Cryptography
- Threat Detection Using Big Data Analytics
- Privacy Threats of Big Data
- Privacy Preserving Big Data Collection
- Intrusion Detection
- Socio-economical Aspect of Big Data in the Context of Privacy
and Security
O APPLICATIONS OF BIG DATA:
- Big Data as a Service
- Big Data Analytics in e-Government and Society
- Applications in Science, Engineering, Healthcare, Visualization,
Business, Education, Security, Humanities, Bioinformatics, Health
Informatics, Medicine, Finance, Law, Transportation, Retailing,
Telecommunication, all Search-based applications, ...
IMPORTANT DATES:
ASAP: Workshop / Session Proposals (As Soon As Possible)
March 15, 2014: Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 15, 2014: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 3, 2014: Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 21-24, 2014: The 2014 International Conference on Advances in
Big Data Analytics (ABDA'14)
SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org . Submissions must
be uploaded by March 15, 2014 and must be in either MS doc or pdf
formats (about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and references -
single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats
are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to
follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for
publication.) Papers must not have been previously published or currently
submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper should
include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email
address for each author. The first page should also identify the name of
the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best
represent the content of the paper. The name of the conference that the
paper is being submitted for consideration (i.e., ABDA) must also be
stated on the first page of the paper as well as a 100 to 150-word
abstract. The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will
be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for
originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of
contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program
committee would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);
often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees. Papers
whose authors include a member of the conference program committee will
be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical
papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).
The ABDA'14 proceedings will be published in printed conference books
(ISBN) and will also be made available online. The printed proceedings/
books will be available for distribution on site at the conference. The
proceedings will be sent for inclusion into science citation databases
that track citation frequency/data for each published paper. Science
citation databases include: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering &
Technology; The French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS,
INIST databases, PASCAL (accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO,
OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, & STN International); and others.
In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series (multiple
books in each series); one with Elsevier publishers (Emerging Trends in
Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers
(Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence).
After the conference (the whole process takes 12 months), a significant
number of authors of accepted papers of ABDA, will be given the opportunity
to submit the extended version of their papers for publication consideration
in these books. We anticipate having between 10 to 20 books a year in each
of these book series projects. Each book in each series will be subject to
Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which includes: Scopus,
www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE,
www.info.embase.com; and others).
See the following links for a small subset of the book and journal
publications based on the accepted papers of the federated congress that
ABDA is part of: (some of these books and journal special issues have
already received the top 25% downloads in their respective fields):
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformati...
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformati...
http://store.elsevier.com/Emerging-Trends-in-ICT-S...
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmedgenomics/supple...
http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC328...
http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC270...
http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC299...
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/S1/I1
http://www.springer.com/series/11769
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1752-0509/5?issue=S3
SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:
Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same
instructions that appear above (see, SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS) except
for the submission is limited to 2 pages. On the first page, the author
should state that "This paper is being submitted as a poster". Poster
papers (if accepted) will be published if and only the author of the
accepted paper wishes to do so.
PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS:
ABDA is composed of a number of tracks. A track can be a session, a
workshop, or a symposium. A session will have at least 6 papers; a workshop
at least 12 papers; and a symposium at least 18 papers. Track chairs will be
responsible for all aspects of their tracks, including: soliciting papers,
reviewing, selecting, ... The names of track chairs will appear as Associate
Editors in the conference proceedings and on the cover of the printed books
(and indexed in science databases as such).
Proposals to organize tracks (sessions, workshops, or symposiums) should
include the following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer,
his/her biography, title of track, a 100-word description of the topic of
the track, the name of the conference the track is submitted for
(i.e., ABDA) and a short description on how the track will be advertised
(in most cases, track proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers
whose work is known to the track proposer). E-mail your track proposal to
editor-AT-world-comp.org . We would like to receive the track proposals as soon
as possible but by no later than February 25, 2014.
CO-SPONSORS:
Currently being prepared - In the recent past, the Academic Sponsors of the
congress that ABDA is part of, included research labs and centers affiliated
with (each sponsored all or at least one track of the congress): Argonne
National Laboratory, Illinois, USA; George Mason University, Virginia, USA;
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Texas A&M University,
USA; UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research, Austria;
University of Iowa, USA; and many others.
Sponsors At-Large included (corporate, associations, organizations):
Intel Corporation; Super Micro Computer, Inc., California, USA; Altera
Corporation; The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics;
International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; US Chapter of
World Academy of Science; High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology;
Luna Innovations; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies;
Manx Telecom; Computer Science Research, Education, and Applications
Press; HoIP Telecom; Hodges Health; Leading Knowledge; OMG; Aldebaran
Robotics Inc., USA; Impulse Accelerated Technologies, Inc., USA; NVIDIA
Corporation, USA; Pico Computing, Inc., USA; Solarflare Communications,
Inc., USA; Science Publications and many others.
MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
Currently being finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of the last
offerings of the congress that ABDA is part of, included: Dr. Selim Aissi,
(formerly: Chief Strategist - Security, Intel Corporation, USA) Senior Business
Leader & Chief Architect, Visa Corporation, USA; Prof. Babak Akhgar, PhD, FBCS,
CITP, Professor of Informatics, Co-Director of CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in
Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence & organised Crime research), Sheffield
Hallam University, Sheffield, UK; Prof. Nizar Al-Holou, Professor and Chair,
Vice Chair, IEEE/SEM-Computer Chapter; University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit,
Michigan, USA; Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, Professor of Computer Science, Elected
Fellow of ISIBM, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Supercomputing (Springer),
University of Georgia, USA; Prof. Kevin Daimi, Professor of Computer Science,
Director of Computer Science and Software Engineering Programs, University of
Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof. George Jandieri, Georgian
Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia and Chief Scientist at The Institute of
Cybernetics, Georgian Academy of Science, Georgia; Prof. D. V. Kodavade, Head
of Computer Science and Engineering, DKTE Institute, India; Prof. Kun Chang
Lee, Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science, Sungkyunkwan
University, Korea; Prof. George Markowsky, Professor and Associate Director,
School of Computing and Information Science, Chair Int'l Advisory Board of
IEEE IDAACS, Director 2013 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition,
University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA; Prof. G.N. Pandey, Vice-Chancellor,
Arunachal University of Studies, India; Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park,
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul, Korea and President of
KITCS, President of FTRA, Editor-in-Chiefs: HCIS, JoC and IJITCC Journals;
Prof. Fernando G. Tinetti, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina,
Co-editor, Journal of CS and Technology (JCS&T); Dr. Predrag Tosic, Microsoft,
Washington, USA; Prof. Vladimir Volkov, The Bonch-Bruevich State University of
Telecommunications, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Dr. Michael R. Grimaila, Air
Force Institute of Technology, Fellow of ISSA, CISM, CISSP, IAM/IEM, Air Force
Center of Cyberspace Research, Advisor to the Prince of Wales Fellows & Prince
Edward Fellows at MIT and Harvard Universities and PC member of NATO
Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCD COE); Prof. Victor
Malyshkin, Head of Supercomputer Software Department, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Russia; Prof. Andy Marsh, Director of HoIP, Director of HoIP
Telecom, UK, Secretary-General of WABT, Vice-president of ICET, Visiting
Professor, University of Westminster, UK; Ashu M. G. Solo (Publicity Chair),
Fellow of British Computer Society, Principal R&D Engineer, Maverick
Technologies America; Prof. Sang C. Suh, Head and Professor of Computer
Science, Vice President, of Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS),
Director of Intelligent Cyberspace Engineering (ICEL), Texas A&M University,
Com., Texas, USA; Prof. Layne T. Watson, IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow,
Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute &
State University, Virginia, USA; and others.
The 2014 Program Committee for ABDA is currently being compiled. Many who
have already joined the committee are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers,
scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks.
Program Committee members are expected to have established a strong and
documented research track record. Those interested in joining the Program
Committee should email editor-AT-world-comp.org the following information
for consideration: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
email address, a one-page biography that includes research expertise & the
name of the conference (i.e., ABDA).
GENERAL INFORMATION:
ABDA is an international conference that serves researchers, scholars,
professionals, students, and academicians who are looking to both foster
working relationships and gain access to the latest research results. It is
being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research
conferences; namely, The 2014 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer
Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'14). The Congress is among the
top five largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees from about
85 countries/territories.
The 2014 Congress will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures,
invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster
presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have
included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California,
Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology),
Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of
Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of
Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U. of California,
Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT),
Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost;
OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford
U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan),
Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose
L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer,
Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of
Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/
2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet
Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System
Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI;
Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick),
Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue
University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology
Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell
University - formerly at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former
director of Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National
Science Foundation, USA), Dr. Flavio Villanustre (Vice-President, HPCC
Systems), Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor, Purdue University,
USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg (School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv
University, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing Center;
Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel Coordinates and
author of textbook); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished
Professor of ECE and Professor of CS; Director, CSU Information Science
and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA);
and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the
conferences' atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at:
http://infinitydempsey.smugmug.com/WorldComp
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/
An important mission of The Congress is "Providing a unique platform for
a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies,
and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also
attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as
their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that
have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to
achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."
One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model
facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of computer
science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also
encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives;
ie, facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across
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MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
As of December 14, 2013, papers published in the conference proceedings
that have been held as part of the joint Congress, have received over
27,500 citations (includes about 3,300 self-citations). Citation data
obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ . The citation data
does not even include more than 15,000 other citations to papers in tracks
whose first offerings were initiated by this joint congress.
MISCELLANEOUS:
The information that appears in this announcement is correct as of
January 29, 2014
CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: sc-AT-world-comp.org