[NFBCS] [deadline extended, firm] BDCAT 2021 - the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies

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8th The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing,
Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2021)
December 6-9, 2021 - Leicester, UK - Call for Papers
Website: https://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/BDCAT2021/call-for-papers/index.htm

CALL FOR PAPERS

The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications
and Technologies (BDCAT) is an annual conference series aiming to provide a
platform for researchers from both academia and industry to present new
discoveries in the broad area of big data computing and applications.
Previous events were held in London, UK (BDCAT 2014), Limassol, Cyprus
(BDCAT 2015), Shanghai, China (BDCAT 2016), Austin, Texas, USA (BDCAT
2017), Zurich, Switzerland (BDCAT 2018), Auckland, New Zealand (BDCAT 2019)
and online (BDCAT 2020). BDCAT 2021 will be held in conjunction with the
14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC
2021) in Leicester, UK.

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts on a broad
range of topics related to big data science, computing paradigms, platforms
and applications.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

I. Big Data Science
- Big Data Analytics
- Data Science Models and Approaches
- Algorithms for Big Data
- Big Data Search and Information Retrieval Techniques
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Approaches
- Machine Learning Techniques for Big Data
- Big Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices
- Big Data and Deep Learning

II. Big Data Infrastructures and Platforms
- Scalable Computing Models, Theories, and Algorithms
- In-Memory Systems and Platforms for Big Data Analytics
- Big Data and High Performance Computing
- Cyber-Infrastructure for Big Data
- Performance Evaluation Reports for Big Data Systems
- Storage Systems (including file systems, NoSQL, and RDBMS)
- Resource Management Approaches for Big Data Systems
- Data Analytics on Edge Devices

III. Big Data Applications
- Big Data Applications for Internet of Things
- Mobile Applications of Big Data
- Big Data Applications for Cyber Physical Systems
- Healthcare Applications such as Genome Processing and Analytics
- Scientific Application Case Studies on Cloud Infrastructure
- Big Data in Social Networks
- Data Streaming Applications

IV. Big Data Trends and Challenges
- Fault Tolerance and Reliability
- Scalability of Big Data Systems
- Energy-Efficient Algorithms
- Big Data Privacy and Security
- Big Data Archival and Preservation

V. Visualization of Big Data
- Visual Analytics Algorithms and Foundations
- Graph and Context Models for Visualization
- Analytics Reasoning and Sense-making on Big Data
- Visual Representation and Interaction
- Big Data Transformation, and Presentation

Important Dates (all AoE - Anywhere on Earth):

Paper submissions due: September 13, 2021
Notification of acceptance: October 13, 2021
Camera ready papers due: October 31, 2021
Early registration deadline: October 31, 2021

Submission
BDCAT submissions continue to use a double column format for review based
on the new single-column template to facilitate the new ACM production
process.

Submitted manuscripts must represent original unpublished research that is
not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Manuscripts
are submitted in PDF format and may not exceed ten (10) ACM-formatted
*double-column* pages, including figures, tables, and references.

All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality,
technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, quality of
presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees.

Accepted papers will later be converted into single-column format through
the ACM TAPS process and therefore need to use the new templates that are
single-column by default. Switch them to double-column for authoring your
paper. This is possible in both the Word and the LaTeX templates.

LaTeX: documentclass[sigconf,screen,review]{acmart}

Word: Format - Page - Columns - set to 2

At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in
order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. The conference
proceedings will be published by the ACM and made available online via the
IEEE Xplore Digital Library and ACM Digital Library.

Formatting: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow

Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdcat2021

Awards and Special Issues:

A selection commission chaired by the BDCAT 2021 TPC chairs will select and
acknowledge the best paper and best student paper to receive an award
during the conference.

Authors of highly rated papers from BDCAT 2021 will be invited to submit an
extended version to a special issue of a prestigious journal in the area of
big data which is currently being defined.

General Chairs:
- David De Roure, University of Oxford, UK
- Xinghui Zhao, Washington State University, USA

Programme Committee Chairs:
- Olga Datskova, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- Lydia Y. Chen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
- Robert Birke, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland