[Apologies if you receive this more than once] ##################################################################### ASE BigData 2015 Call for Papers ##################################################################### The Fifth ASE International Conference on Big Data (jointly with the Fourth ASE International Conference on Social Informatics) Kaohsiung, Taiwan OCT. 7-9, 2015 http://bigdata2015.scienceengineeringacademy.org/ ASE SocialInformatics 2015: http://socialinformatics2015.scienceengineeringacademy.org/ The ASE weblink: http://www.scienceengineeringacademy.org/asesite/ ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ Workshop & Special Session proposal submission: June 7, 2015 Electronic submission of full papers: July 7, 2015 Notification of paper acceptance: August 21, 2015 Camera-ready of accepted papers: September 7, 2015 Conference: October 7-9, 2015 +++++++++++++++++++ Topics of Interest +++++++++++++++++++ Topics •Big •Big •Big •Big •Big •Big •Big of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Data Science Data Computing Data Mining Data Analytics Data Understanding Data Applications Data Privacy and Security +++++++++++++++++++ Paper Submission +++++++++++++++++++ All paper submissions will be peer reviewed and be done electronically, as indicated in the instructions on the conference web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigdata2015 All accepted papers will be published in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS), which is EI indexed. +++++++++++++++++++ Keynote Speakers +++++++++++++++++++ Six international well-known scholars will give their keynotes in the conference: Prof. Salil Vadhan (Harvard University, USA) Prof. Yi-Bing Lin (Deputy Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan) Prof. Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Prof. Justin Z. Zhan (North Carolina A&T State University, USA) Prof. Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China) Prof. Reda Alhajj (University of Calgary, Canada) +++++++++++++++++++ History +++++++++++++++++++ The conferences were held in Washington D.C. in 2012, in Orlando, Florida in 2013, and at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA in 2014. This year is the first time for the conference to be held outside USA. It will be hosted by National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan from Oct. 7th to 9th, 2015, and held jointly with the Fourth ASE International Conference on Social Informatics. ########### Contact ########### General Chair Vincent S. Tseng: vtseng@cs.nctu.edu.tw Chung-Nan Lee: cnlee@mail.cse.nsysu.edu.tw Jiming Liu: jiming@comp.hkbu.edu.hk Program Chair Bao-Rong Chang: brchang@nuk.edu.tw Been-Chian Chien: bcchien@mail.nutn.edu.tw Hui Xiong: hxiong@rutgers.edu Contact Min-Thai Wu: jimmywmt@nuk.edu.tw