Data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Big Data encompasses various kinds of complex and large scale information that are beyond the processing capabilities of conventional software and databases. Open Data on the other hand can make Big Data more useful and widely accessible. The combination of Open and Big data can benefit users, developers, companies and various kinds of organizations to carry out useful analysis of data pattern and trends, make intelligent decisions, and solve complex problems that can help societies and economies and speed up innovations.

The aim of the Open and Big Data conference (OBD 2016) is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of open and big data and to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Challenges and opportunities in open and big data
    Data models and architectures
    Security, privacy, and trust
    Data protection and integrity
    Identity theft, data loss and leakage
    Legal and ethical issues
    Data analytics and metrics
    Data representation and structures
    Data management and processing
    Data capturing and acquisition
    Tools and technologies
    QoS in open and big data
    Social networks analysis
    Data searching and mining
    Visualisation of data
    Personal data logging and quantified-self
    Context-aware data
    Personalisation of data
    Data economics
    Applications of open and big data
    Open and linked data
    Methodologies and use cases
    Usability issues
    Storages and network requirements
    Network models and protocols
    Open and big data in cloud and IoT

PUBLICATION:

All papers accepted for this conference are planned to be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS) (approval pending). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services;

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special issues in international journals (see Journal Special Issues section).