SmartData 2019 : The 5th IEEE International Conference on Smart Data

Call for Papers of SmartData 2019
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The 5th IEEE International Conference on Smart Data (SmartData-2019)
July 14-July 17, 2019, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

Selected papers, after further extensions and revisions, will be recommended to special issues of SCI and EI journals.
More details can be found via the conference website:
http://cse.stfx.ca/~cybermatics/2019/smartdata/
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Smart Data aims to filter out the noise and produce valuable data, which can be effectively used by enterprises and governments for planning, operation, monitoring, control, and intelligent decision making. Although unprecedentedly large amount of sensory data can be collected with the advancement of the Cyber-Physical-Social systems, the key is to explore how Big Data can become Smart Data and offer intelligence. Advanced Big Data modeling and analytics are indispensable for discovering the underlying structure from retrieved data and further acquiring Smart Data.

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Smart Data (SmartData-2019) is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the computational intelligence technologies and theories for harvesting Smart Data from Big Data. It will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-process on all aspects of Smart Data.

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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
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Track 1: Data Science and Its Foundations
-Foundational Theories for Data Science
-Theoretical Models for Big/Smart Data
-Data inference for Big/Smart Data
-Data Classification and Taxonomy
-Data Metrics and Metrology

Track 2: Big/Smart Data Infrastructure and Systems
-Cloud/Cluster/Fog/Edge Computing for Big Data
-Parallel Computing for Big Data
-Open Source Big Data Systems (e.g., including Hadoop, Spark, Flink and Storm)
-System Architecture and Infrastructure of Big/Smart Data
-Big/Smart Data Appliance

Track 3: Big/Smart Data Storage and Management
-Big/Smart Data Collection, Transformation and Transmission
-Big/Smart Data Integration, Cleaning and Storage
-Data Query and Indexing Technologies
-Distributed File/Database Systems
-NewSQL/NoSQL for Big/Smart Data

Track 4: Big/Smart Data Processing and Analytics
-Smart Data Search, Mining and Drilling from Big Data
-Data Mining/Machine Learning/Deep Learning for Big/Smart Data
-In-Memory/Streaming/Graph-Based Computing for Big/Smart Data
-Brain/Nature-Inspired Computing for Big/Smart Data
-Secure/Privacy-Preserving/Differentially Private Computing for Big/Smart Data
-New Models, Algorithms, and Methods for Big/Smart Data Analytics
-Visualization Analytics for Big Data

Track 5: Big/Smart Data Applications
-Big/Smart Data Applications in All Fields, e.g., Finance, Business, Healthcare, Transportation, Industry, Manufacture, Education, Telecommunication, etc.
-Data as a Service (DaaS)
-Security, Privacy and Trust in Big/Smart Data
-Blockchain-Based Applications in Big/Smart Data
-Big/Smart Data Opening, Sharing, Exchange and Trading
-Practices and Experiences of Big/Smart Data Project Deployments
-Ethic Issues in Big/Smart Data Applications

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Important Dates
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Workshop Proposal Due: Feb. 01, 2019
Paper Submission Deadline: Mar. 15, 2019
Author Notification: May 01, 2019
Final Manuscript Due: June 01, 2019
Conference Date: July 14-17, 2019

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Paper Submission
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A submission in PDF is limited to 8 pages for a main conference paper, 6 pages for a workshop paper, and 2-4 pages for a poster paper following the IEEE proceedings format, and is to be submitted via the site: https://edas.info/N25839.

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Paper Publication
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Accepted papers will be published by IEEE (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). Selected high quality papers, after further extensions and revisions, will be recommended to journal special issues. More details can be found via the conference website: http://cse.stfx.ca/~cybermatics/2019/smartdata/.

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Organizing Committee
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General Chairs
-Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Georgia State Univ., USA
-Guangchun Luo, Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
-Francisco Herrera, Univ. of Granada, Spain

Program Chairs
-Shadi Ibrahim, INRIA, France
-Martin Serrano, National Univ. of Ireland at Galway, Ireland
-Huazhong Liu, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China。

Program Vice Chairs
-Feng Luo, Clemson Univ., USA

Workshop Chairs
-Xuan Guo, Univ. of North Texas, USA

Publicity Chairs
-Xuefeng Yan, NUAA, China

Web Chair
-Zihao Jiang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada

Steering Chairs
-Zhikui Chen (Chair), Dalian Univ. of Tech., China
-Carson Leung, Univ. of Manitoba, Canada
-Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada