The topics of interests include but not limited to: 

• Big data Infrastructure 
• Big data management 
• Big data privacy and security 
• Big data theory and algorithms 
• Big data visualization 
• Cloud Application Scalability and Availability 
• Cloud Solution Design Patterns 
• Data analysis applications - bioinformatics 
• Data analysis applications - business intelligence 
• Data analysis applications - social informatics 
• Data cleaning methodologies 
• Data extraction, transformation and load 
• Hybrid cloud 
• Mobile processing of big data 
• NoSQL data stores 
• Outlier detection in big data 
• Processing of text documents 
• Public and private clouds 
• Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring 
• Cloud Computing Architecture 
• Cloud Delivery Models 
• Cloud Optimization and Automation 
• Data mining and knowledge discovery and big data 
• Data modeling 
• Distributed data structures, MapReduce 
• Education in data science & engineering 
• QoS for Applications on Clouds 
• Social network analysis 
• Web services 
• Web-based data analysis 
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