Example topics of interest includes but is not limited to the following:

1. Big Data Science and Foundations

Novel Theoretical Models for Big Data
New Computational Models for Big Data
Data and Information Quality for Big Data
New Data Standards

2. Big Data Infrastructure

Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing for Big Data
High Performance/Parallel Computing Platforms for Big Data
Autonomic Computing and Cyber-infrastructure, System Architectures, Design and Deployment
Energy-efficient Computing for Big Data
Programming Models and Environments for Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing to Support Big Data
Software Techniques and Architectures in Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing
Big Data Open Platforms
New Programming Models for Big Data beyond Hadoop/MapReduce, STORM
Software Systems to Support Big Data Computing

3. Big Data Management

Search and Mining of variety of data including scientific and engineering, social, sensor/IoT/IoE, and multimedia data
Algorithms and Systems for Big Data Search
Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search
Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency
Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices
Visualization Analytics for Big Data
Computational Modeling and Data Integration
Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems
Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining- Big Velocity Data
Link and Graph Mining
Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing
Mobility and Big Data
Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data

4. Big Data Search and Mining

Social Web Search and Mining
Web Search
Algorithms and Systems for Big Data Search
Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search
Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency
Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices
Visualization Analytics for Big Data
Computational Modeling and Data Integration
Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems
Cloud/Grid/StreamData Mining- Big Velocity Data
Link and Graph Mining
Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing
Mobility and Big Data
Multimedia and Multi-structured Data-Big Variety Data

5. Ethics, Privacy and Trust in Big Data Systems

Techniques and models for fairness and diversity
Experimental studies of fairness, diversity, accountability, and transparency
Techniques and models for transparency and interpretability
Trade-offs between transparency and privacy
Intrusion Detection for Gigabit Networks
Anomaly and APT Detection in Very Large Scale Systems
High Performance Cryptography
Visualizing Large Scale Security Data
Threat Detection using Big Data Analytics
Privacy Preserving Big Data Collection/Analytics
HCI Challenges for Big Data Security & Privacy
Trust management in IoT and other Big Data Systems

6. Hardware/OS Acceleration for Big Data

FPGA/CGRA/GPU accelerators for Big Data applications
Operating system support and runtimes for hardware accelerators
Programming models and platforms for accelerators
Domain-specific and heterogeneous architectures
Novel system organizations and designs
Computation in memory/storage/network
Persistent, non-volatile and emerging memory for Big Data
Operating system support for high-performance network architectures

7. Big Data Applications

Complex Big Data Applications in Science, Engineering, Medicine, Healthcare, Finance, Business, Law, Education, Transportation, Retailing, Telecommunication
Big Data Analytics in Small Business Enterprises (SMEs)
Big Data Analytics in Government, Public Sector and Society in General
Real-life Case Studies of Value Creation through Big Data Analytics
Big Data as a Service
Big Data Industry Standards
Experiences with Big Data Project Deployments