Please accept our apologies when you receive multiple copies of this Final CFP. =============== The 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom) October 8-12, 2018 Guangzhou, China http://www.smart-world.org/2018/cbdcom/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keynote Speeches Section You are welcome to attend 15+ Keynote Speeches offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders, which will be shared by the IEEE Smart World Congress 2018 and its six Co-Located Conferences (UIC, ATC, ScalCom, CBDCom, IoP, SCI) and their associated Symposiums/Workshops. Detailed information will be available at the conference website later. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Issues Section Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 20+ SCI & EI indexed special issues* (to be confirmed). Special issues will be shared by IEEE Smart World Congress 2018 and its six Co-Located Conferences (UIC, ATC, ScalCom, CBDCom, IoP, SCI) and their associated Symposiums/Workshops: (1) IEEE Internet of Things Journal (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 7.596) http://ieee-iotj.org/ (2) Information Fusion - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 5.667) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/ (3) Information Sciences - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 4.832) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/ (4) Future Generation Computer Systems - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.997) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/ (5) Journal of Network and Computer Applications - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.500) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-network-and-computer-applications/ (6) IEEE Access (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.244) http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/ (7) Ad Hoc Networks - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.047) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/ (8) Soft Computing - Springer (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.472) https://link.springer.com/journal/500 (9) Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Hindawi (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.899) https://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcmc/ (10) International Journal of Parallel Programming - Springer (SCI & EI Indexed, Impactor Factor: 1.156) https://link.springer.com/journal/10766 (11) Journal of Computer Science and Technology - Springer (SCI & EI Indexed, Impactor Factor: 0.956) http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/11390 (12) Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments - IOS (SCI & EI Indexed, Impactor Factor: 0.809) https://www.iospress.nl/journal/journal-of-ambient-intelligence-and-smart-environments/ (13) IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems - (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.411) http://www.ieice.org/eng/ (14) IEEE Cloud Computing - (EI Indexed) https://cloudcomputing.ieee.org/ (15) Journal of Information Security and Applications - Elsevier (ESCI & EI Indexed) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-information-security-and-applications/ (16) Future Internet - MDPI (ESCI & EI Indexed) http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet (17) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) - INDERSCIENCE (ESCI & EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJCSE (18) International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES) - INDERSCIENCE (EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJES (19) International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN) - INDERSCIENCE (EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijhpcn * More special issues will be added later. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshops/Special Sessions Section The CBDCom 2018 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops and special sessions associated to the CBDCom. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. For submission guidelines see http://www.smart-world.org/2018/cbdcom/workshops ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Innovative Cloud and Big Data for Smarter World The IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom) is a premier conference covering all aspects of cloud computing and big data. IEEE CBDCom 2018 will be held in Guangzhou during October 8-12, 2018. IEEE CBDCom 2018 encourages submissions that present fundamental insights and contributions to the fields of cloud and big data computing. This conference also covers the latest research achievements, novel data management systems, innovative applications of cloud computing and big data technologies, and experiences in applying recent research findings to real-world problems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cloud computing solutions and platforms - Cloud data management and storage - Cloud resource management and quality-of-service - Cloud related virtualization technologies - Big data algorithms, applications and services - Big data cleansing, mining and analytics - Big data processing and querying - Big data visualization an education - Cloud and big data for the Internet of Things (IoT) - Government and industrial experiences for cloud and big data - Green computing and networking for cloud and big data - Software engineering for cloud computing and big data - Cloud and big data intelligence - Cloud and big data privacy and security Submitted papers cannot be previously published nor under review by other conferences or journals. Submissions are not required to be double blind, i.e., authors can keep their names on the submitted papers. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop Proposal Due: April 8, 2018 (Closed) Proposal notification: Within two weeks after submission Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2018 (Closed) Authors Notification: June 25, 2018 (for all papers submitted before May 30, 2018) Authors Notification: July 8, 2018 (for all papers submitted after May 30, 2018) Camera-ready Deadline: August 8, 2018 PAPER SUBMISSION A submission is limited to 8 pages for a main conference paper, 6 pages for a workshop or special session paper, 4 pages for a Work-in-Progress paper, and 4 pages for a poster or demo paper in the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) with Portable Document Format (.pdf). A submission can have at most 2 additional pages with the pages overlength charge if accepted. Please submit at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartworld2018. PAPER PUBLICATION Accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE CPS (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the conference; otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers will be recommended to special issues. More details can be found via http://www.smart-world.org/2018/. WORKSHOPS and SPCIAL SESSIONS IEEE CBDCom 2018 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops and special sessions to be associated with the conference. Accepted workshop papers will be included in the same IEEE CBDCom 2018 proceedings. For workshop and special session proposals, please contact: ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIRS Georges Da Costa, lRIT, France Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research America, USA EXECUTIVE GENERAL CHAIRS Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Weishan Zhang, China Univ. of Petroleum, China PROGRAM CHAIRS Peng Li, The University of Aizu, Japan Tom Guerout, LAAS-CNRS, France Wenjun Jiang, Hunan University, China WORKSHOP AND SPECIAL SESSION CHAIRS Kun Wang, Nanjing Univ. of Posts and Tel., China Wei Shi, Carleton University, Canada Jorge Barbosa, FEUP, Portugal PUBLICITY CHAIRS Mir Sajjad Hussain, Sindh Agri. Univ., Pakistan Zhi Liu, Shizuoka University, Japan Feng Ye, University of Dayton, USA Heng Qi, Dalian University of Technology, China Entao Luo, Hunan University of Science and Engineering, China Tuan Anh Trinh, BME, Hungary STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIRS Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Huansheng Ning, Univ. Sci and Tech Beijing, China IEEE CBDCom 2018: Contact Please email inquiries concerning IEEE CBDCom 2018 to Conference Organizers: IEEECBDCom2018@googlegroups.com. Prof. Guojun Wang, Executive General Chair of IEEE CBDCom 2018 -- ******************************************************************* Dr. Guojun Wang, Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor Director of Institute of Computer Networks, Vice Dean of School of Computer Science and Educational Software, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China, 510006 Tel/Fax: +86-20-39366920, Mobile: +86-13360581866 Email: csgjwang@gzhu.edu.cn; csgjwang@gmail.com http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/publications.html *******************************************************************