Seventh International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA2019) December 17-20, 2019, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India Website: http://bda2019.org Dear Colleagues, The 7th International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA2019) will be held during December 17-20, 2019 at Ahmedabad University, India. *********************************************** Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials *********************************************** BDA2019 provides an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their original research results, practical experiences and thoughts on big data from different perspectives including storage models, data access, computing paradigms, analytics, information sharing and privacy, redesigning mining algorithms, open issues and future research trends. BDA 2019 invites original, technically sound, high-quality research papers proposing novel solutions addressing the problems related to big data analytics as well as case studies and practical experiences with big data. Major topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: * Analytics as a Service * Architectural Design for Big Data * Big Data Analytics for Governance * Conceptual/cognitive/programming Models for Big data analytics * Clustering of Big Data * Data Fusion and Multi Modal Analytics * Data Models for Big Data Analytics * Domain-specific Analytics * Index Structures for Big Data Analytics * Interaction Design for Exploratory Analytics * Machine Learning techniques for Big Data * Large-scale recommendation systems and graph analysis * Model Discovery from Big Data * NoSQL and non-standard Data Models * Physical Data Organization for Big Data * Predictive Modelling * Pattern and Rule Mining from Big Data * Scalability and Performance issues * Security, privacy and legal issues specific to big data * Semantics of Big Data * Streaming Data Analytics * Summarization and Materialized views * Topic Modelling * Unstructured and Semi-structured Data Mining Publication: The proceedings of BDA2019 will be published in Springer LNCS series (approval pending) Research track submissions: Each paper should contain an abstract of approximately 300 words having a page limit of 20 pages in the LNCS style. The submissions including the title page, references and appendix. For preparing the manuscript, please see instructions for authors by Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS) http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 At least one author of the accepted paper must register for the conference. LaTeX and Word Templates & Submission Guidelines: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in Springer LNCS series. Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bda20190 Journal Special Issue: Selected papers from BDA conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their paper for possible publications in Special Issue of Distributed and Parallel Databases journal. Important Dates: Abstract submission: July 5, 2019, 23:59 PST Full paper submissions: July 19, 2019, 23:59 PST Author notifications: September 16, 2019, 23:59 PST Camera-ready submission: October 1, 2019, 23:59 PST The call for tutorials is available at http://bda2019.org/pages/tutalks.html The call for workshops is available at http://bda2019.org/pages/workshops.html Chief Patrons Pankaj Chandra, Vice Chancellor, Ahmedabad University Sudhir Jain, Director, IIT, Gandhinagar General Chair Sanjay Chaudhary, Ahmedabad University, India Steering Committe Chair: P. Krishna Reddy, IIIT Hyderabad, India Members: S.K. Gupta, IIT Delhi, India Srinath Srinivasa, IIIT Bangalore, India Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India Sanjay Kumar Madria, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Raj K. Bhatnagar, University of Cincinnati, USA Vasudha Bhatnagar, University of Delhi, India Mukesh Mohania, IBM Research, Australia H.V. Jagadish, University of Michigan, USA Ramesh Kumar Agrawal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Divyakant Agrawal, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Arun Agarwal, University of Hyderabad, India Subhash Bhalla, The University of Aizu, Japan Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA Anirban Mondal, Ashoka University, India Sharma Chakravarthy, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Program Committee Chairs Sanjay Kumar Madria, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Philippe Fournier-Viger, Herbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China Organizing Chair Mehul Raval, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, India Kumar Shashi Prabh, Ahmedabad University, India Sponsorship Chair Anil Roy, DA-IICT, India Financial Chair Dhaval Patel, Ahmedabad University, India Publication Chair P. Krishna Reddy, IIIT Hyderabad, India Workshop Chair Srikrishnan Divakaran, Ahmedabad University, India Tutorial Chairs Mukesh Mohania, IBM, Australia Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan Publicity Chairs Shelly Sachdeva, NIT Delhi, India M. T. Savaliya, Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, India Panel Chairs TBD Website Chair Pratik Trivedi, Ahmedabad University, India Organizing Committee Barbara Moraswka, Ahmedabad University, India Anurag Lakhlani, Ahmedabad University, India C K Bhensdadia, Dharmsinh Desai University, India Amit Ganatra, CHARUSAT, India Sanjay Sampat, Government Polytechnic College - Surat, India Rahul Bhathiji, Ahmedabad University, India Aman Dave, Ahmedabad University, India Kruti Yadav, Ahmedabad University, India Manav Shah, Ahmedabad University, India Contact: Admin Office, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380009 E-mail: bda2019conference@gmail.com Phone: +91 79 61911111/ 61911112 <http://seas.ahduni.edu.in/people-details/faculty-list/sanjay_chaudhary> <http://ict.ahduni.edu.in/>