International Workshop on Cloud (Edge) Computing with Bigdata and Blochchain


Cloud (Edge) Computing makes data truly mobile and a user can simply access a chosen cloud with any internet accessible device. Big Data Intelligence has become pervasive in business in every industry where decision making is being fundamentally transformed by Thinking Machines. Blockchain-based technologies have recently emerged into the mainstream, demonstrating the advantages of decentralization, disintermediation, anonymity and censorship resistance, especially in relation with the financial sector. Futuretech2019 aims to bring together researchers who work on cloud computing, big data, blockchain and related technologies.

Topics include but are not limited to:

1. Architecture
- Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
- Cloud Platform as a Service
- Cloud federation and hybrid cloud infrastructure
- Programming models and systems/tools
- Green data center
- Networking technologies for data center
- Cloud system design with FPGA, GPU, APU
- Monitoring, management and maintenance
- Economic and business models
- Dynamic resource provisioning

2. MapReduce
- Performance characterization and optimization
- MapReduce on multi-core, GPU
- MapReduce on hybrid distributed environments
- MapReduce on opportunistic / heterogeneous computing systems
- Extension of the MapReduce programming model
- Debugging and simulation of MapReduce systems
- Data-intensive applications using MapReduce
- Optimized storage for MapReduce applications
- Fault-tolerance & Self-* capabilities

3. Security and Privacy
- Accountability
- Audit in clouds
- Authentication and authorization
- Cryptographic primitives
- Reliability and availability
- Trust and credential management
- Usability and security
- Security and privacy in clouds
- Legacy systems migration
- Cloud Integrity and Binding Issues

4. Services and Applications
- Cloud Service Composition
- Query and discovery models for cloud services
- Trust and Security in cloud services
- Change management in cloud services
- Organization models of cloud services
- Innovative cloud applications and experiences
- Business process and workflow management
- Service-Oriented Architecture in clouds

5. Virtualization
- Server, storage, network virtualization
- Resource monitoring
- Virtual desktop
- Resilience, fault tolerance
- Modeling and performance evaluation
- Security aspects
- Enabling disaster recovery, job migration
- Energy efficient issues

6. HPC on Cloud
- Load balancing for HPC clouds
- Middleware framework for HPC clouds
- Scalable scheduling for HPC clouds
- HPC as a Service
- Performance Modeling and Management
- Programming models for HPC clouds
- HPC cloud applications
- Optimal cloud deployment for HPC

7. Big Data:
- Machine learning
- Data mining
- Approximate and scalable statistical methods
- Graph algorithms
- Querying and search
- Data Lifecycle Management for Big Data (sources, cleansing, federation, preservation, privacy, etc.)
- Frameworks, tools and their composition
- Storage and analytic architectures
- Performance and debugging
- Hardware optimizations for Big Data (multi-core, GPU, networking, etc.)
- Data Flow management and scheduling

8. Blockchain technology and applications:
- All kind of blockchain based distributed systems 
- Distributed (smart) systems relying on cryptocurrencies and smart contracts 
- Blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT) 
- Blockchain and mobile systems 
- Blockchain based mobile ad-hoc networks 
- Blockchain based intelligent vehicular coordination 
- Vehicular services based on cryptocurrencies and blockchain 
- Blockchain solutions for automotive 
- Use of blockchain to support mobile smart services and applications 
- Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing 
- Blockchain in 5G 
- Blockchain in edge and cloud computing 
- Use of blockchain in Smart Cities 
- Blockchain schemes for decentralization 
- Blockchain-inspired or alternative byzantine fault tolerance 
- Performance optimization of blockchain and decentralized schemes 
- Use of blockchain in healthcare applications 
- Blockchains' energy consumption issues 
- Security related issues in cryptocurrencies and blockchain 
- Use of blockchain in distributed simulation 
- Use of cryptocurrencies in public volunteer computing 
- Cryptocurrencies and blockchain usage in online gaming architectures and digital virtual environments 


General Co-Chairs:

Wei Wei 
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an 710048, China. E-mail: weiwei@xaut.edu.cn

Marcin Wozniak
Institute of Mathematics, Silesian University of Technology, Kaszubska 23, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland. Email: Marcin.Wozniak@polsl.pl

Xunli Fan
School of Information Science & Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an 710127, China. E-Mail: xunlfan@nwu.edu.cn

Important Schedule
  
Submission Deadline: Feb. 15, 2019
Author Notification: Mar. 8, 2019
Registration Due: Mar. 15, 2019            
Camera Ready Due: Mar. 22, 2019
Conference Date: Apr. 24-26, 2019