The conference welcome papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics:

• Foundational Models for Big Data    

• Algorithms and Programming Techniques for Big Data Processing

• Big Data Analytics and Metrics    

• Representation Formats for Multimedia Big Data

• Big Data Architectures    

• Cloud Computing Techniques for Big Data

• Big Data as a Service    

• Big Data Open Platforms

• Big Data in Mobile and Pervasive Computing    

• Big Data Management

• Big Data Persistence and Preservation    

• Big Data Quality and Provenance Control

• Management Issues of Social Network enabled Big Data    

• Big Data Protection, Integrity and Privacy

• Models and Languages for Big Data Protection    

• Privacy Preserving Big Data Analytics Big Data Encryption

• Security Applications of Big Data    

• Anomaly Detection in Very Large Scale Systems

• Collaborative Threat Detection using Big Data Analytics    

• Big Data Search and Mining

• Algorithms and Systems for Big Data Search    

• Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search

• Machine learning based on Big Data  

• Visualization Analytics for Big Data

• Big Data for Enterprise    

• Big Data Economics

• Real-life Case Studies of Value Creation through Big Data Analytics    

• Big Data for Business Model Innovation

• Big Data Toolkits    

• Big Data in Business Performance Management

• SME-centric Big Data Analytics  

•  Big Data for Vertical Industries (Government, Healthcare, and Environment)

• Scientific Applications of Big Data    

• Large-scale Social Media and Recommendation Systems

• Experiences with Big Data Project Deployments    

• Big Data in Enterprise Management Models and Practices

• Big Data in Government Management Models and Practices    

• Big Data in Smart Planet Solutions

• Big Data for Enterprise Transformation