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!!!!!! SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 21, 2013 (Extended) !!!!!!!
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Special Session on "CLOUD and VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT Meet BIG DATA"

collocated with

The 9th International Conference on
SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET-BASED SYSTEMS (SITIS 13)
December 2 - 5, 2013

In cooperation with ACM SIGAPP French Chapter and
IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing

Kyoto Terrsa, Japan

http://www.sitis-conf.org/
http://www.sitis-conf.org/en/cloud-and-virtualized-environment-meet-big-data.php?Preview=ok



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There is a growing interest in virtualized environments and their applications,
raising several challenges. Many trends are emerging to address these issues.
Cloud computing provides a powerful model to connect users to information
resources anywhere. It has become a significant technology with several advantages
including cost savings, access to greater computing resources, high availability,
and scalability.
In addition, the advent of Semantic Web has raised new opportunities and challenges. In this context,
Big Data and Linked Data are being an integral part of the web infrastructure,
where massive amounts of connected or possibly interconnectable data, identifiable
via URIs, are available. These technologies are paving the way of the Web of Data.


The aim of this special session, as part of the Web Computing and Applications (WECA) Track of SITIS is to provide a forum to bring together scientists, researchers
and practitioners interested in these emerging architectures and methodologies for
capturing, storing, managing and analyzing massive, dispersed, interconnected data
over the Web. Its also to discuss the possible interaction between Web of Data/Linked Data and Big Data/Cloud Computing.

The topics of interest of the track include, but not limited to:

- CLOUD COMPUTING/MOBILITY AND CLOUD
Cloud Computing standards and technologies
Cloud Computing specifications and enhancements
Cloud Computing discovery and integration
Cloud Computing, cluster and high performance computing and storage infrastructure for massive data
Cloud Computing security and QoS
Cloud Computing applications and solutions
Cloud and Social Network Analysis
Mobile Cloud Computing applications
Mobile cloud resource management
Mobile cloud middleware
Mobile cloud architecture
Energy efficiency in mobile cloud computing
Context-aware mobile cloud computing

- BIG DATA
Large big data stream processing
Scalability in processing large data volumes
Multiple source data processing and integration for massive data
Massive Data Visualization
Big Data and Social Medias
Big Data issues in Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics and hydroinformatics
Use cases, Practical application of big data techniques
Mobile data analytics

- WEB OF DATA, LINKED DATA/OBJECT
Publishing Linked Data and Data Interlinking
Ontologies Matching and Mapping
Instances Matching
Semantic Interoperability
Linked Open Services
Linked Open Data Cloud
Linked Data Science
Government Linked Data

- WEB SERVICES, Virtualized systems and Applications
Web application development on virtualized infrastructures and platform
Web information handling on virtualized storage
Web applications on Cloud infrastructure
Virtualized RDF data indexing and storage
Virtualized Systems security, privacy, and trust
Data management and mining in social Web
Web advertising and community analysis
Web-based collaboration
Web service and information management
Virtual communities on the cloud
Design and analysis of social or collaborative applications
Cloud and service compuing

- APPLICATIONS, EVALUATIONS, AND EXPERIENCES IN
E-Business
Bioinformatics and Translational Medicine
Epidemic Intelligence, Health Informatics, E-Health
Agronomic and Environmental field
E-Government

==== Important Dates ====
Paper Submission: October 21 (extended), 2013
Acceptance/Reject notification: October 28, 2013
Camera ready: October 31, 2013
Author registration: October 31, 2013

==== Submission and publication ====

The Session is part of the SITIS 2013 conference/WECA Track, which will include keynote addresses, tutorials, and regular
and workshop sessions. We invite submission of high quality and original papers on the topics listed above.
Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance.
Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes. SITIS-2013 online submission system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis2013

Session Chairs
Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France
Edward Mutafungwa, Aalto University, Finland

General Co-Chairs
Setsuo Tsuruta, Denki University, Japan
Ernesto Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy