<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">IEEE Big Data 2016 Call
for Workshop Proposals</span></b></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"><br>
<span class=""> </span><span class=""> </span><br>
<span class="">2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data</span><span class=""> (IEEE Big Data 2016)</span><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><a href="http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2016/">http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2016/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">December 5-8, 2016, Washington DC, USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">The Program Committees of the 2016 IEEE International Conference
on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2016) invite proposals for Workshops. Selected
workshops will hold a central position within the larger conference, which will
bring together top academic and industrial researchers from all over the world
to exchange cutting edge research ideas in Big Data research, development and
practice. Within these fields, workshops
at Big Data form crucial focal points for emerging communities and forums for
the examination of new ideas.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Here are a summary of the conferences in the previous years:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> The IEEE Big Data conference series started in 2013
has established itself as the top tier research conference in Big Data.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">1.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">The first conference IEEE Big Data 2013 (<span class=""> </span><a href="http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/">http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/</a><span class=""> </span>regular paper acceptance rate:
17.0%)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">was held in Santa Clara, CA
from Oct 6-9, 2013 with more than 400 registered participants from
40 countries. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">2.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">The IEEE Big Data
2014 (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2014/index.htm"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2014/index.htm</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">, regular
paper acceptance rate: 18.5.0%) was held in Washington DC,<span class=""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Oct 27-30, 2014 with more than 600 registered participants
from 45 countries.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">3.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">The IEEE Big Data
2015 (<span class=""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2015/"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2015/</span></a></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">, regular paper acceptance rate: 16.8%) was held in Santa
Clara, Oct</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">29-Nov 1, 2015 with
more than 780 registered participants from 49 countries.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data
(IEEE Big Data 2016) will continue the success of the previous IEEE Big Data
conferences. It will provide a leading forum for disseminating the latest
research in Big Data Research, Development, and Applications. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class=""><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the
workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers,
and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and breadth of the
Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in
the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, made available
at the Conference.</span></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"><br>
<span class=""> </span><span class=""> </span><br>
<span class="">The workshop organizers will also have the
discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into
books or special journal issues. Workshops should cover at least a single
session (6 regular papers). The workshop organizers should ensure registration
and presence of authors of accepted papers.</span><span class=""> </span><br>
<span class=""> </span><span class=""> </span><br>
<span class=""><b>Workshop Topics</b></span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and
initiatives in Big Data. The workshops should provide an informal and
vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their
research results and practical development experiences in Big Data research,
development and practice. Workshop topics may be narrow, e.g., Clouding Computing/Grid
Computing/Stream Computing for Big Data; Big Data stream Mining, Big Graph Data
Mining, or broad,
e.g., Big Data Foundations , Big Data management, Big Data Mining and
Searching, Big Data Privacy and Security, Big Data Application, etc (Pls refer to the IEEE Big Data 2016 </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2016/"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2016/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">for more possible workshop topics). </span></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Prospective workshop organizers are encouraged to contact workshop
chairs for feedback. </span></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Important
Dates</span></b></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"><br>
<span class="">May 20, 2016 Workshop proposal submission due</span><span class="">:</span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"> <span class="">a proposed workshop announcement is sent by e-mail to any of the Workshop
Chairs</span><br>
<span class="">May 30,
2016: Notification to workshop proposers</span><span class=""> </span><br>
<span class="">June 20 , 2016: Each workshop organizer sends out
Call for Workshops Papers</span><span class=""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%;color:black">Guidelines for Workshop Proposals</span></b></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Proposals for 2016 IEEE Big Data Workshops should contain the
following components. </span></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">1. Workshop Title</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"> (e.g., Visualization and Analytics for Big Data<span class="">)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">2. Introduction to
workshop (a few sentences about the background, importance, purpose, interests,
etc. of workshop)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">3. Research topics included
in the workshop (list a number of interesting topics or areas covered by
workshop)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">4. Important dates
(These dates are for your reference except the Camera-ready submission date, </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Please do not change
the camera-ready date)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 13.5pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Oct 10,
2016:</span></b></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"> Due date for full workshop
papers submission</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black;background:yellow"><br>
</span><span class=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Nov 1,
2016:</span></b></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"> Notification of
paper acceptance to authors</span></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 13.5pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Nov 15,
2016:</span></b></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"> Camera-ready of
accepted papers</span></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"><br>
<span class=""><b>Dec 5-8, 2016:</b>
Workshops</span><span class=""> </span><br>
<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">5. Program Chairs or co-chairs: (1-3 experts
in the research areas of workshop) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">6. Program Committee Members: (at least 5
experts in the research areas)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">7. Invited keynote speakers (optional)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Workshop Chairs:</span></b></span><span class=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"> </span></b></span></p>
<pre><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Prof. Aki-Hiro Sato, Kyoto University, Japan</span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Email: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:sato.akihiro.5m@kyoto-u.ac.jp"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">sato.akihiro.5m@kyoto-u.ac.jp</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">, </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:aki@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">aki@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></pre>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Dr.
Rainer Stotzka </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology (KIT), Germany</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Email:
<a href="mailto:rainer.stotzka@kit.edu">rainer.stotzka@kit.edu</a></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Dr. Weijia Xu, University of Texas at
Austin, USA</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Email: <a href="mailto:xwj@tacc.utexas.edu">xwj@tacc.utexas.edu</a></span></p></div>
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