It is with great pleasure, on behalf of the program committee, that we welcome you to the fourth IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT2017), to be held in Austin, Texas, USA.
BDCAT, as an international conference series, has established itself as the forum for researchers and practitioners in the varied spectrum of human endeavors where data is produced and consumed; from health and personalized medicine, to social services, to industrial processes, to security, to retail business and to high energy physics to identify elementary particle to unlock the secrets of the universe, among many other fields. Big data is an all-encompassing term combining the various characteristics of data that includes their volume, the velocity of data generation and consumption, the variety of data sources and formats, and the variability in their characteristics. The Big Data ecosystem encompasses theoretical and computational frameworks, the applications that deal with such data, and the emerging technologies that ultimately benefit the masses.
Since its birth in 2014 in London, UK, BDCAT has become one of the premier forums for sharing of new advances in the methodology, the applications and technologies for big data. Today, BDCAT continues its success. This year we have received 93 submissions from 22 countries. Of these submissions, 27 were accepted for publication, leading to an acceptance rate of 29%.
A monumental effort such as BDCAT2017 would not come to fruition without the vision and cooperative and dedicated work of many individuals across the globe. In particular we would like to thank the experts comprising the BDCAT Technical Program Committee for preserving the tradition of rigorous, high-quality peer reviews through their dedication, hard work, and discussions leading up to the selection of the papers. We acknowledge the relentless support that we received from our honorary leadership, Professors Rajkumar Buyya at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Geoffrey Fox at Indian University, USA and Beng Chin OOI of the National University of Singapore, Singapore. We also kindly acknowledge the dedicated support of the local organizing committee chairs: Professors Tim Cockerill of Texas Advanced Computing Center, Jerry Perez, Texas Tech University, Ravi Vadapalli, Texas Tech University and Zhangxi Lin, Texas Tech University, all of the USA. With efforts that spanned almost a year, we also acknowledge the efforts of the publicity chairs, professors David Chiu, University of Puget Sound, USA, Ningfang Mi, Northeastern University, USA, Gleb Radchenko, South Ural State University, Russia, Andrei Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico, Yan Tang, Hohai University, China and Iman Elghandour, Alexandria University, Egypt.
Index Terms
- Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies
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Acceptance Rates
Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
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BDCAT '17 | 93 | 27 | 29% |
Overall | 93 | 27 | 29% |