The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Smart Data Services (SMDS 2020)

July 7-11, 2020

Beijing, China

https://conferences.computer.org/smartdataservices/2020/

CALL FOR PAPERS

The IEEE International Conference on Smart Data Services (SMDS) is the flagship theme-topic conference for data-driven applications and smart data-aware solutions under the as-a-service model, including analytic & learning-based services, smart data infrastructures, big data management, data quality and trustworthiness, data computing at the edge/IoT systems, and case studies of smart data services. IEEE SMDS aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on AI, Systems, Data Science, and Services Computing to provide a dynamic and interactive forum to present and discuss their latest research findings, results, and challenges in this emerging area of mutual interest.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Data as a Service

Foundations of smart data services
End-to-end data services
Smart data analytics services
Scientific data services
Open data services

Smart Data Infrastructures

Data clouds and cloud-based data services
Distributed databases and data stores
Programming models for smart data services
Data provenance and workflow support
Streaming and real-time data platforms
Semantic web and knowledge graphs
Smart data architectures

Smart Data Management

Smart data placement and scheduling
Data integration and service interoperability
Sustainability of smart data services
Data migration, storage, and preservation
Graph analytics, ontology, and reasoning
Metadata management, synchronization, and consensus
Data visualization and visual analytics
Green and eco-friendly data services

Smart Data Trustworthiness

Data privacy as a service
Security of data services
Blockchain-based data services
Learning-based data services
Data assurance, reliability, and trust
Outsourcing and delegation of data services

Data Computing at the Edge

Computing data anywhere, anytime
Smart IoT systems
Mobile data services
Data services for a digital continuum
Mission-critical data services

Data Service Quality

Quality assurance for data services
Pricing and billing of data services
Availability of data services
Data service performance
Data service compliance

Applications and Case Studies

Applications of smart data services
Data services for Smart-X
Social media, web, and crowdsourcing
Societal impacts of smart data services
Future research challenges in data services

MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES AND SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Please download the paper template in WORD or LaTeX.

Language: English
Paper size and format: US Letter; Two-column format in the IEEE style
Page limit: Up to eight pages for peer review for regular papers; Up to three pages for a “work in progress” paper
Abstract Length: 1500 characters for a regular paper, and 500 characters for “work in progress” papers
Number of Keywords: between five to eight keywords for each paper
File format: Limit the size of a single PDF file to be 6MB

Note: Authors of the accepted regular papers will have available up to 10 pages for the final version of papers.

Anonymous Submissions: All conferences implement a double-blind reviewing process. Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. The authors should make a reasonable effort not to reveal their identities of institutional affiliations in the text, figures, photos, links, or other data that is contained in the paper. Authors’ prior work should be preferably referred to in the third person; if this is not feasible, the references should be blinded. Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. The list of authors cannot be changed after the acceptance decision is made unless approved by the Program Chairs.

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers with confirmed registration and committed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Each conference/congress will publicly announce the winners of its Best Paper Award, and Best Student Paper Award. The authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and other suitable journals.

Submitted Regular and Workshop Papers will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Submitted Work-In-Progress Papers will be limited to 3 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages. Unformatted papers and papers beyond the page limit may not be reviewed.

SUBMISSION LINK

Please submit your SMDS paper at EasyChair.org:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeesmartdataservice

IMPORTANT DATES

REGULAR PAPERS

Early paper submissions due: December 2, 2019
Review comments to authors of early submission papers: January 17, 2020
Normal paper submission due: February 13, 2020 (5:00 am, UTC)
Final notification to authors: April 6, 2020
Camera ready manuscripts due: April 20, 2020
Congress dates: July 7-11, 2020

CONTACT INFORMATION

For any questions regarding submissions, please contact the IEEE SMDS conference chairs at ieeecs.smds@gmail.com.

SMART DATA SERVICES 2020 CHAIRS

General Chair
- Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University
- Mohand-Said Hacid, University of Lyon
- Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University
Program Chair
- Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University
- Tevfik Kosar, University of Buffalo
- Hongbing Wang, Southeast University

REVIEW POLICY

IEEE Policy and professional ethics require that referees treat the contents of papers under review as privileged information not to be disclosed to others before publication. It is expected that no one with access to a paper under review will make any inappropriate use of the special knowledge, which that access provides. Contents of abstracts submitted to conference program committees should be regarded as privileged as well, and handled in the same manner. The Conference Publications Chair shall ensure that referees adhere to this practice.

Organizers of IEEE conferences are expected to provide an appropriate forum for the oral presentation and discussion of all accepted papers. An author, in offering a paper for presentation at an IEEE conference, or accepting an invitation to present a paper, is expected to be present at the meeting to deliver the paper. In the event that circumstances unknown at the time of submission of a paper preclude its presentation by an author, the program chair should be informed on time, and appropriate substitute arrangements should be made. In some cases it may help reduce no-shows for the Conference to require advance registration together with the submission of the final manuscript.

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ABOUT THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON SERVICES COMPUTING

Founded in 2003, IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Services Computing (TCSVC) is a multidisciplinary group whose purpose is to advance and coordinate work in the field of Services Computing carried out throughout the IEEE in scientific, engineering, standard, literary and educational areas. IEEE TCSVC membership details are available at http://tab.computer.org/tcsvc/