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***** 6th Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking *****
http://clds.sdsc.edu/wbdb2015.ca

*** June 16-17, 2015 ***
*** University of Toronto, Canada ***
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Workshop Description
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Formed in 2012, the Workshops Series on Big Data Benchmarking has conducted
five successful workshops, bringing together industry experts and the academic
community towards the development of benchmarks for providing objective
measures of the effectiveness of hardware and software systems dealing with big
data applications. These workshops have become a leading international forum
for discussing and disseminating the latest trends, challenges, and ideas
around big data benchmarking and related applications scenarios, in industry
and research.


Topics
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Related research topics explore a broad range of characteristics that
define big data and big data applications, including:
* Ideas and proposals for TPC and SPEC-style benchmarks
* Synthetic data generation; measurement and metrics
* Benchmarking next-generation hardware systems
* Graph analytics
* New applications scenarios based on social media


Paper Submission, Review, and Publication
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Short abstracts --from 4 to 8 pages in length-- should be formatted using the
Springer LNCS Proceedings format. Selected revised papers will be published in
Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer.

Please use the following submission system to submit your paper:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WBDB2015

Submission Dates:
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* May 1, 2015:
Due date for workshop abstract submission
* May 17, 2015:
Notification of abstract acceptance to authors
* June 16-17, 2015:
Workshop
* October 1, 2015:
Submission of full length version of accepted papers

Contact:
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For questions please contact Tilmann Rabl (tilmann[dot]rabl[at]utoronto[dot]ca)