The Sixth International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data (CBD 2018) 是由兰州大学和东南大学联合主办的云计算和大数据领域的高水平国际会议，将于2018年8月12-15日在兰州举行。会议论文将由IEEE CPS出版并提交EI论文检索，优秀论文将推荐到SCI期刊：Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience，Tsinghua Science and Technology等发表。CBD系列会议已经连续成功举办五届，CBD2015、CBD2016和CBD2017的SCI期刊推荐率均超过30%。

应广大作者的要求，现将会议论文截稿日延迟至2018年5月21日。

对于有意投稿CBD2018的作者，请于2018年5月21日前通过easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbd2018)提交稿件。CBD2018会议征文及投稿的具体要求请查阅会议官网 http://cbd.seu.edu.cn/cbd2018/ 。

欢迎各位踊跃投稿，如有投稿相关问题请联系组委会邮箱：ipv6@lzu.edu.cn 或 cbd@pub.seu.edu.cn。

Call for papers:

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The Sixth International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data (CBD 2018)
Aug 12-15, 2018, Lanzhou, China
Website: http://cbd.seu.edu.cn/cbd2018/
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Publication
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All submitted papers will be reviewed by program committee members and selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers will be all published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex). Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit revised and expanded version of their papers to be considered for publication in special issues of well-known international journals (SCI-index) such as Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Tsinghua Science and Technology and etc.

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Important Dates:
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- Paper submission deadline: May 21, 2018 (final!!!)
- Notification of acceptance: June 21, 2018
- Camera Ready Due: July 11, 2018
- Registration Due: July 11, 2018

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Scope and Topics
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The International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data (CBD) provides a forum for both academics and practitioners working on cloud computing and big data technologies to explore new ideas, share their experiences and leverage each other’s perspectives. Besides the latest research achievements, this conference also covers cloud/big data industry practices and their broad applications, and gives all participants a chance to identify the new/emerging “hot” trends in these areas. We solicit original papers on a wide range of cloud computing and big data topics that can be divided into three tracks but are not limited to:

Research Track
- Cloud Security and Privacy
- Cloud Data Center Networking
- Cloud Virtualization
- Cloud Storage
- Cloud Resource Management
- Multi/Hybrid/Inter Cloud
- Big Data Processing/Mining/Query
- Cloud Workflow Scheduling
- Cloud based Machine/Deep Learning
- Cloud-Edge Architecture/Algorithm
- Cloud based Industrial Internet
- Green Cloud

Industry Track  
- Cloud Computing Solutions
- Cloud Computing Specifications/Standards
- Big Data in Economic Analytics
- Big Data in Smart City/Home
- Big Data in Industry Practices
 
Application Track
- Industrial Internet
- Mobile Edge Computing
- Machine/Deep Learning
- Social Networking
- Knowledge Graph

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Paper Submission
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Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE US Letter Format: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html and must be submitted via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbd2018) as PDF files. The review version is limited to 6 pages (IEEE proceedings format), including references and illustrations. Submitted papers should not be previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another conference or journal. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the paper.

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General Conference Co-Chairs
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- Bin Hu, Lanzhou University, China
- Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China
- Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
- Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA

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Program Committee Co-Chairs
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- Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hongkong, China
- Qingguo Zhou, Lanzhou University, China
- Fang Dong, Southeast University, China

For more information about the conference, organizing committee, submission instructions, and venue please visit the conference website:
http://cbd.seu.edu.cn/cbd2018/