Big Data has become an emerging paradigm for the practitioners and researchers to explore the value of datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools. Cloud computing, as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services, is driving the innovations of big data. Both technologies continue to evolve. It makes sense that cloud computing offers a cost-effective way to support big data technologies and the advanced analytics applications that can drive business value.

This special issue is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in the area of datacenter and big data in cloud. It is including the theory, architecture and utility, particularly related to the use of cloud computing technologies to deal with big data. We invite the submissions of high quality papers describing future potentials or on-going work.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the Second International Conference of Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications (CLOUDTECH’2016), but we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conferences to submit articles for this call.

Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

Big Data in Cloud
Cloud Computing Techniques for Big Data
Big Data as a Service
Big Data in Pervasive Computing
Big Data Management
Security Applications of Big Data
Big Data for Enterprise

Notes for Prospective Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).
All papers are refereed through a peer review process.
All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our Submitting articles page.

Guest Editors:
Kun Ma
Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Network Based Intelligent Computing,
University of Jinan, China Email: kun.ma.cn@ieee.org Web: http://kunma.net

Mostapha Zbakh
National College of IT (ENSIAS), Morocco Email: m.zbakh@um5s.net.ma

Important Dates
Original paper submission: 30 September, 2016
Notification of first revisions/acceptance: 30 November, 2016
Submission of revised versions by authors: 30 January, 2017
Final notification of acceptance/rejection: 28 February, 2017

Submit Abstract via Email: "Dr. Kun Ma"(kun.ma.cn@ieee.org)
Submit Full Paper via Submission System: http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijstm