CFP: Special Issue on Service and Cloud Based Data Integration at Springer Journal of Grid Computing (Extended deadline: Nov. 15, 2012)

    Special Issue on Service and Cloud Based Data Integration


    Springer Journal of Grid Computing
    <http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/journal/10723>

Website: http://users.sdsc.edu/~jianwu/JGC-SCDI-2013/

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*Introduction*

Integration and synthesis of heterogeneous, autonomous and distributed 
data sources have been an essential and hard issue in enterprise 
computing, scientific computing and social computing. It is not always 
feasible to achieve effective data integration around definite schemas 
when there are mismatches in cross-domain integration and when such 
issues as compatibility, scalability, timeliness, and user manipulation 
are concerned. Many traditional data integration approaches/frameworks 
begin to show their limitations, especially when dealing with situations 
like data deluge and data source evolution. Service Oriented 
Architecture, Cloud computing and Web 2.0 techniques have brought light 
to dealing with these hard issues. Recent years have seen some important 
progresses and potentials. Some "Data as a Service" applications target 
fast, on-demand data integration and latest data provisioning. 
Meanwhile, SOA is being employed by many large projects to deal with 
data collection, integration and discovery challenges across data 
repositories.

The Special Issue on Service and Cloud Based Data Integration will 
provide the scientific and industrial community a dedicated forum, 
within the prestigious Springer Journal of Grid Computing, for 
presenting novel models, methodologies, and solution patterns that 
address the data integration issue and fit in the service and cloud 
based settings. This special issue will focus on the use of service 
and/or cloud based technologies to meet the new data integration 
challenges that are not well served by the current approaches. We 
believe this venue will be an excellent place to help researchers, 
practitioners and vendors in this community show latest progresses, 
determine future goals, and present techniques for future development of 
data integration.

*Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:*

# Service Abstraction and Virtualization for Distributed Data Integration
# Modeling and Composition of Data Services
# Scalability, Reliability and other Quality Assurance of Data Integration
# Correctness Verification and Freshness of Distributed Data Integration 
Results
# Performance Analysis and Optimization of Distributed Data Integration 
Process
# Agile and Ad-hoc Integration of Heterogeneous Data Sources
# Automatic Tracing and Response of Changes and Updates
# Real-time Integration and Processing of Large-scale Sensor Data
# Enterprise Mashup
# User-friendly Mashup of Distributed Data Sources
# Data Flow Modeling and Management in Cloud
# Cloud-based Architectures for Distributed Data Integration
# Applications of SOA and Cloud Infrastructure in Data Integration

*Important Dates*

# Papers Due: November 15, 2012
# First Round Decisions: February 1, 2013
# Major Revisions if needed: March 1, 2013
# Second Round Decisions: April 15, 2013
# Minor Revisions if needed: June 1, 2013
# Final Decision: July 1, 2013
# Publication Date: September 2013

*Paper Submission*

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished technical papers. 
All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, 
originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, 
and relevance to the special issue topics of interest. Submitted papers 
may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, 
conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to 
another forum during the review process. Submitted papers may not exceed 
20 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 
inch pages (1" margins), including figures, tables, and references. Note 
that accepted papers will likely be between 15 to 20 pages, depending on 
a variety of factors. For more information for preparing the submitted 
papers, please see 
http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/journal/10723, 
under "Instructions for Authors". The papers (PDF format) must be 
submitted online at http://grid.edmgr.com/ <http://grid.edmgr.com> 
before the deadline. Please specify the article type to be "special 
issue: data integration" when submitting the paper on the website. For 
any questions on the submission process, please email the guest editors 
at jgc.scdi.2013@gmail.com <mailto:jgc.scdi.2013@gmail.com>.

*Special Issue Guest Editors*

# Yanbo Han (hanyanbo@ncut.edu.cn), Research Center for Cloud Computing, 
North China University of Technology, China
# Jianwu Wang (jianwu@sdsc.edu), San Diego Supercomputer Center, 
University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.

*Editors-in-Chief*

# Peter Kacsuk, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
# Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory

*More Information*

# The Call For Paper (CFP) information can also be found from the Springer 
Journal of Grid Computing 
<http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/journal/10723> 
web site at its left side. It's under 'Author Academy: Training for 
Authors' item, so you may need click the downward arrow first. The 
direct link for the CFP is CFP at Springer Website 
<http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/CFP-%20Special+Issue+of+Journal+of+Grid+Computing.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1335517-%20p35498653>. 

# The CFP page at the web site of Research Center for Cloud Computing, 
North China University of Technology: The CFP page at Research Center 
for Cloud Computing 
<http://decloud.ncut.edu.cn/news/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-service-and-cloud-based-data-integration-springer-journal-of-grid-computing>.