This first issue of the WABiD* workshop aims at promoting and sharing research and innovation on Big Data Management, Analytics and Security. The aim of this workshop is to become a regular exchange forum for researchers and practitioners of big data-related applications. The submission of ongoing research, industrial, position, visionary, inter/trans/pluridisciplinary and student papers are encouraged to fuel up the discussion.

Topics of interest for this workshop include but are not limited to the following:

• Anonymity in the cloud
• Applied cryptography in the cloud
• Agent-based modelling and simulation
• Big data integration
• Big data mining
• Big data modeling
• Big data quality
• Big data semantics
• Big data storage strategies
• Big data warehousing and OLAP
• Cloud architectures
• Crowdsourcing and collaborative analyses
• Complex (semi-structured, stream, textual, graph, multimedia, open, linked...) data
• Data availability, integrity, privacy, reliability... in the cloud
• Data lakes
• Dataviz
• Energy-efficient computing
• Distributed and/or parallel processing and computing environments
• Machine learning, deep learning
• Metadata management
• NoSQL and NewSQL databases
• On-demand analytics
• Performance optimization and benchmarks
• Real-time analytics
• Scalability
• Smart Cloud
• Applications: Digital humanities, Healthcare, Manufacturing, smart cities, Agriculture, Bioinformatics, Supply chain management, Customer relationship management, Social media, Internet of things, Recommender systems, Alert systems, Mobile applications...

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Submissions should present original results and substantial new work not currently under review or published elsewhere. Papers must not exceed 12 pages (including references and possible technical appendices) in the LNCS format. For camera-ready papers, use LaTeX or Word LNCS style. Workshop papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Communications in Computer and Information Science series.

Submissions must be uploaded by using the Easychair WABiD* 2018 page.

The authors of the best workshop papers will be invited to prepare extended versions of their papers after the workshop. Following an additional round of reviews, the extended papers will appear in a special issue of an international journal.

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• March 25, 2018: Paper submission
• April 7, 2018: Paper submission (extended deadline)
• May 11, 2018: Paper submission (last extended deadline)
• June 12, 2018: Notification of acceptance - Postponed to June 15
• June 16, 2018: Camera-ready papers - Postponed to June 18
• September 2, 2018: Workshop day at ADBIS 2018

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Workshop co-chairs

• Jérôme Darmont, Université de Lyon, France
• Nadia Kabachi, Université de Lyon, France

Program committee

• Alberto Abello,Universitat Politenica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
• Abdelkader Adla, University of Oran, Algeria
• Varunya Attasena, Kasetsart University, Thailand
• Antonio Badia, University of Louisville, USA
• Nadjia Benblidia, Université Saad Dahlab de Blida, Algeria
• Fatma Bouali, Université Lille 2, France
• Kamel Boukhalfa, USTHB University, Algeria
• Arnaud Castelltort, Université de Montpellier, France
• Karen Davis, Miami University, Oxford, USA
• Matteo Golfarelli, University of Bologna, Italy
• Anastasios Gounaris, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Le Gruenwald, University of Oklahoma, USA
• Abdelkader Hameurlain, Université de Toulouse, France
• Hedi Karray, INP-ENIT, France
• Okba Kazar, University of Biskra, Algeria
• Daniel Lemire, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
• Patrick Marcel, Université de Tours, France
• Jose-Norberto Mazon, University of Alicante, Spain
• Franck Ravat, Université de Toulouse, France
• Abdelmounaam Rezgui, New Mexico Tech, USA
• Alkis Simitsis, HP Labs, USA
• Somayeh Sobati Moghadam, Hakim Sabzevari University, Iran
• Prasan Kumar Sahoo, Chang Gung University, Taiwan
• Won-Kyung Sung, KISTI, South Korea
• Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
• Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
• Mahdi Zargayouna, IFSTTAR, France

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• Keynote: TBA
• Francesco Ventura, Tania Cerquitelli and Francesco Giacalone: Black-box model explained through an assessment of its interpretable features

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The deadline for workshop registration is June 30, 2018 (23h59, CEST – Central European Summer Time), as reported on the ADBIS 2018 website.

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Danubius Hotel Flamenco, Budapest, Hungary. For more information, see ADBIS 2018 webpage.

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If you have any question or information request about the WABiD* workshop, please send an email to wabid __AT__ eric.univ-lyon2.fr.

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