International Workshop on Big Data and Cloud (BDC 2012)

held in conjunction with

The 13th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2012)

Paphos, Cyprus

November 28-30, 2012


http://www.cloudserviceresearch.com/bdc2012/




The rise of multimedia, social media, sensor networks and the Internet of Things will fan the flames
of data explosion in many application domains. These emerging Big Data applications present enterprises
with very high data-to-compute ratio. According to the 2010 ?The Economist report?, the US retail firm
Wal-Mart ?handles more than one million customer transactions every hour, feeding databases estimated
at more than 2.5 petabytes ? the equivalent of 167 times the number of books in America?s Library of
Congress?. The explosion of amount of data is not limited to retail sector, but also to other application
domains such as healthcare, public sector and scientific applications. For example, in Square Kilometre
Array (SKA), a telescope generates more data than the whole Internet with a single file often reaching
multiple terabytes in size.

As data volumes continue to increase exponentially, the challenge is not only how to store and manage
data but also to effectively analyse the data to gain insight knowledge to make smarter decisions. One
of the key challenges is transforming the raw data available to your business into business value
and strategic advantage. The better management and analysis of Big Data will become the next frontier
of innovation, competition and productivity. For example, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study,
a retailer exploiting the full potential of big data could increase its operating margin by more than 60
percent; efficient and effective use of big data could save more than $300 billion dollars for US government
in healthcare alone. Therefore, there is a need of effective and efficient management and analysis of big data.

Recently, Cloud computing has emerged as a promising technology towards handling Big Data. The driving
forces behind cloud computing are: (a) significantly reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of the required IT
infrastructure and software including (but not limited to) purchasing, operating, maintaining and updating costs;
(b) high Quality of Service (QoS) provided by cloud service providers such as availability, reliability and
Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) based low prices; and (c) easy access to organizational information and services
anytime anywhere. In a nutshell, cloud computing provides a new paradigm for delivering computing resources
(e.g., infrastructure, platform,
software, etc.) to customers such as utilities (e.g., water, electricity, gas, etc.) on demand. Despite its own shortcomings, cloud becomes
an attractive technology platform for developing and deploying Big Data analytics.


The international workshop on Big Data and Cloud (BDC 2012) will provide the scientific community a dedicated forum for discussing
the state-of-the-art research, development, and deployment efforts of Big Data in Cloud.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Big Data applications in Cloud
- Big Data Analytics in Cloud
- Cloud Data Management Solutions
- Issues of Privacy, Security and Trust in Big Data Analytics
- Fragmentation issues of Big Data
- Big Data sharing in Cloud
- End-to-End Management of Big Data
- Case Studies

Submission Details:

Submissions to the workshop in one or more of the topic areas outlined above are welcome. Submissions should be no more than 6 pages and
should use the Springer LNCS proceedings format (available at: www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Papers should be
submitted via the workshop submission site on Easychair (www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ssrei2011)

Submission Deadlines:
Paper Submission: July 29, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: September 2, 2012

Camera-ready papers: the proceedings of the WISE 2011 workshops will be prepared and printed post conference. The timeline for submission of
camera ready papers will be outlined at the workshop.

Workshop Organisers:
Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia
Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Australia