Big Data and Information Discovery

• Big data algorithms, models, and systems for big data

• Machine learning and Artificial intelligence for big data 

• Big data hardware and software design, middleware and analytics

• Hadoop, Storm, and other big data tools

• Cloud and high performance computing for big data

• Big data retrieval, storage, query, communications, and database 

• Big data preservation, filter, provenance, and assurance

• Big data security, protection, integrity and privacy standards and policies

• Graph mining and opinion mining, and distributed data mining

• Big data streaming, multimedia, stream, or web mining

• Big data applications, image/multimedia data management 

• Database for Big data

• Security and information assurance for Big Data

Cyber and Distributed Computing

• Authentication, trust, privacy and other Cyber security issues

•Parallel and distributed algorithms, resource allocation, load-balance, andmanagement 

• Cloud computing, mobile cloud, mobility-aware cloud data/streams 

• SOA, web services, and mobile services (software, infrastructure, platform as a service)

• Web services and internet computing

• Web-caching, content delivery systems and data distribution systems

• Distributed systems and applications, modeling language, and software engineering

• Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence

5G and Mobile Computing 

• Wireless ad hoc networks, wireless mesh networks, networking theory and algorithms

• Wireless embedded sensor systems, body sensor, new sensing capabilities & security

• Cognitive radio and SDR

• Future generation communications for 5G or 4G beyond (WiMAX, LTE)

• Peer-to-peer network computing and overlaying networks

• Directional antenna and networking

• FDMA/OFDMA modulations, synchronization, and power optimization

• Mobile IP and Internet technology

• Key, attacking models, privacy, confidentiality & security in mobile wireless networks

• Communication, services, middleware, and multimedia on wireless networks

• QoS, reliability, performance, and communication theory

• Wireless network simulations, implementation, and applications

Cloud Computing and Mobile Clouds

• Autonomic, real-time and self-organizing clouds

• Architectural models for public and private cloud computing

• Cloud resource management and allocation

• Utility models and service pricing

• New parallel / concurrent programming models for cloud computing

• Scientific computation and other applications in the cloud

• Mobility modeling, management and measurement for mobile clouds

• Mobile multimedia content delivery, transferring, and migration 

• Content delivery networks using storage clouds 

• User Experience and Cyber Security

• Performance evaluation, measurement and optimization

• Communications and network security 

• Information security, software security, system security, or applied cryptography 

• Tools, test-bed, simulations, and experimental environments  

• Collaborative and cooperative environments

• QoS, Autonomic, reliability, and fault-tolerance