Organizing Committee of CBDCom 2020

Honorary Chairs Matthew Prineas, Athabasca , Canada Andrzej Gościński, Deakin University, Australia Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan

General Chairs Anna Kobusińska, Poznań University of Technology, Poland Rachid Benlamri, , Canada

General Executive Chairs Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan Oscar Lin, Athabasca University, Canada

Program Chairs Carson Kai-Sang Leung, University of , Canada Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada

Track Chairs 1. Big Data Science and Analytics Yacine Atif, University of Skovde, Sweden 2. Big Data Infrastructure and Management Hao Wang, Norwegian Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Norway 3. Big Data Tools and Applications Naercio Magaia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal 4. Cloud Management, Virtualization and Service Mohamed Elhoseny, Mansoura University, Egypt 5. Cloud/Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust Qing Tan, Athabasca University, Canada 6. Cloud/Big Data for IoT and Smart City Abdulsalam Yassine, Lakehead University, Canada

Workshop & Special Session Chairs Xiaoyan Wang, Ibaraki University, Japan

Special Issue Chairs Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada

Tutorial Chair Rachid Benlamri, Lakehead University, Canada

Publicity Chairs Cristian Mateos, National University of Central Buenos Aires, Argentina Mouzhi Ge, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Emad Mohammed, Lakehead University, Canada Aziz Nasridinov, Chungbuk National University, Korea Gheorghi Guzun, San Jose State University, USA Lihui Lei, Shaanxi Normal University, China Xiucai Ye, University of Tsukuba, Japan

xxxvi Finance Chair Hongxin Yan, Athabasca University, Canada

Registration Chair Jillian Calliou, Athabasca University, Canada

Web Chairs Karen Stauffer, Athabasca University, Canada Eric Chen, Athabasca University, Canada

Local Organizing Committee Oscar Lin (Chair), Athabasca University, Canada Ali Dewan (co-chair), Athabasca University, Canada Joelle Jackson, Athabasca University, Canada Jillian Calliou, Athabasca University, Canada Kevin Cole, Athabasca University, Canada Karen Stauffer, Athabasca University, Canada Chris Maton, Athabasca University, Canada Stella George, Athabasca University, Canada

Advisory Committee Frank Hsu, Fordam University, USA Peng Li, The University of Aizu, Japan Tsozen Yeh, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan Paulo Pires, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Christophe CERIN, University of Paris XIII, France Felix Freitag, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Shawkat Ali, Fiji National University, Fiji Victor Chang, Teesside University, United Kingdom Georges Da Costa, IRIT, France Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research America, USA Weishan Zhang, China University of Petroleum, China Jianbin Li, North China Electric Power University, China

Steering Committee Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Huansheng Ning, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Julien Bourgeois, UBFC, France Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Anna Kobusińska, Poznań University of Technology, Poland

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