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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">IEEE Big Data 2018 Call for
Workshop Proposals</span></b></span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
<span class="gmail-apple-style-span"> </span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
<span class="gmail-apple-style-span">2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data</span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> (IEEE Big Data 2018)</span><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2018/index.html">http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2018/index.html</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">December 10-13, 2018, Seattle, WA, USA</span><span style="color:black"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The Program Committees of the 2018 IEEE International Conference
on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2018) 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></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Here
are a summary of the conferences in the previous years:</span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span 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 style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black">1.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">The first conference IEEE Big
Data 2013 (<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/</span></a><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">regular paper acceptance rate: 17.0%)</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span 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 style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black">2.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">The IEEE Big Data 2014 (</span><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 style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">, regular paper acceptance
rate: 18.5.0%) was held in Washington DC,<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Oct 27-30, 2014 with more than 600 registered participants
from 45 countries.</span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black">3.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">The IEEE Big Data 2015 (<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2015/"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2015/</span></a><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">, regular paper acceptance rate: 16.8%) was held in Santa
Clara, Oct</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">29-Nov 1, 2015 with more than 780 registered
participants from 49 countries.</span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black">4.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">The IEEE Big Data 2016 (<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2016/"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2016/</span></a><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">, regular paper acceptance rate: 18.7%) was held in
Washington DC, Dec 5-8, 2016 with close to 900 registered participants from 43
countries.</span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">5.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span>The
IEEE Big Data 2017 (<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/">http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/</a><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>, regular paper acceptance rate:
17.8%) was held in Boston, MA, Dec 11-14, 2017 with close to 1000 registered
participants from 50 countries.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The
2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2018) 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 style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><span 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="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
<span class="gmail-apple-style-span"> </span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
<span class="gmail-apple-style-span">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="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
<span class="gmail-apple-style-span"> </span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
<span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><b>Workshop Topics</b></span> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><span 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 2018 </span></span><a href="http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2018/index.html">http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2018/index.html</a>
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">for more possible workshop
topics). </span></span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Prospective workshop
organizers are encouraged to contact workshop chairs for feedback. </span></span><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Important Dates</span></b></span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
<span class="gmail-apple-style-span">May 20, 2018 Workshop proposal submission due</span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> - </span>submit to:<br>
</span><a href="https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/bigdata18/scripts/submit.php?subarea=ProW"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/bigdata18/scripts/submit.php?subarea=ProW</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">June 1, 2018: Notification to workshop proposers</span></span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
<span class="gmail-apple-style-span">June 20 , 2018: Each workshop organizer sends out
Call for Workshops Papers</span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%;color:black">Guidelines for Workshop Proposals</span></b></span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> <span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Proposals for 2018 IEEE Big Data Workshops should contain the
following components. </span></span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">1. Workshop Title</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> (e.g., Visualization and Analytics for Big Data<span class="gmail-apple-style-span">)<span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><span 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></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><span 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></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><span 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></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Please do not change
the camera-ready date)<span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 13.5pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Oct 10, 2018:</span></b></span><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> Due date for full workshop papers submission</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-color:yellow;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"><br>
</span><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Nov 1, 2018:</span></b></span><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> Notification of paper acceptance to authors</span></span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 13.5pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Nov 15, 2018:</span></b></span><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> Camera-ready of accepted papers</span></span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
<span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><b>Dec 10-13 2018:</b>
Workshops</span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span 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></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span 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></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">7. Invited keynote speakers (optional)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%;color:black">Workshop Proposal Submission:<span></span></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Consolas"><a href="https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/bigdata18/scripts/submit.php?subarea=ProW">https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/bigdata18/scripts/submit.php?subarea=ProW</a></span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> <span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Workshop Chairs:</span></b></span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <span></span></span></b></span></p>
<p class="gmail-default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Prof.
Jingrui He, Arizona State University, USA<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Email:
<a href="mailto:jingrui.he@gmail.com">jingrui.he@gmail.com</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Prof. Jeffrey Saltz, Syracuse University, USA<span></span></span></p>
<pre><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">Email: </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:jsaltz@syr.edu" title="Email Jeffrey Saltz">jsaltz@syr.edu</a></span></pre></div>
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