The topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following:Big data Infrastructure Cloud Solution Design Patterns Hybrid cloudBig data management Data analysis applications- bioinformatics Mobile processing of big dataBig data privacy and security Data analysis applications - businessintelligenceNoSQL data storesBig data theory and algorithms Data analysis applications -social informatics Outlier detection in big dataBig data visualization Data cleaning methodologies Processing of textdocumentsCloud Application Scalabilityand Availability Data extraction, transformation and load(ETL)Public and private cloudsCloud Applications Performance and MonitoringData mining and knowledge discovery and bigdataQoS for Applications onCloudsCloud Computing Architecture Data modeling Social network analysisCloud Delivery Models Distributed data structures,MapReduce Web servicesCloud Optimization and Automation Education in data science & engineering Web-based dataanalysis