Programme Committee

Track: Big Data Storage and Processing
Javier D. Fernández, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria (Chair)
Jeremy Debattista, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Antonio Fariña, University of A Coruña, Spain
Sven Groppe, IFIS Uni Lübeck, Germany
Miguel A. Martínez-Prieto, University of Valladolid, Spain
Danh le Phuoc, TU Berlin, Germany
Martin Strohbach, AGT International, Switzerland
Guillermo Rodriguez-Cano, Bonnier Broadcasting, Sweden
Riccardo Tommasini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Patrick Westphal, University of Leipzig, Germany

Track: Big Data Securty, Privacy and Trust
Pino Caballero-Gil, University of La Laguna, Spain (Chair)
Afonso Ferreira, CNRS - Institut de Recherches en Informatique de Toulouse, France
Alexandra Rivero-García, University of La Laguna, Spain
Antonio Zamora, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Candelaria Hernández-Goya, University of La Laguna, Spain
Cándido Caballero-Gil, University of La Laguna, Spain
Iván Santos-González, University of La Laguna, Spain
Jezabel Molina-Gil, University of La Laguna, Spain
Ljiljana Brankovic, University of Newcastle, Australia
Moisés Lodeiro-Santiago, University of La Laguna, Spain
Rafael Alvarez, Universidad de Alicante, Spain

Track: Big Data Models, Infrastructure and Platforms
Yohei Saika, National Institute of Technology, Japan (Chair)

Track: Visualization of Data
Ahmet Soylu, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (Chair)
Ignacio Diaz-Blanco, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Nivan Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Uğur Doğrusöz, Bilkent University, Turkey
Evgeny Kharlamov, University of Oxford, UK
David Borland, RENCI, USA
Svetlin Alex Bostandjiev, Oracle, USA
Fridolin Wild, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Dumitru Roman, SINTEF / University of Oslo, Norway
Richard Lomotey, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Isaac Cho, Charlotte Visualization Center, USA
Georgios A. Pavlopoulos, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Gavin McArdle, University College Dublin, Ireland
David Auber, University of Bordeaux, France
Johannes Kehrer, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany
Romain Bourqui, University Bordeaux 1, France

Track: Big Data Analytics and Metrics

Rachid Benlamri, Lakehead University, Canada (Chair)
Abdulsalam Yassine, Lakehead University, Canada
Allaoua Chaoui, University of Constantine, Algeria
Arafat Dweik, Khalifa University, UAE
Ayman Alahmar, Lakehead University, Canada
Carlo Giovannella, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA
Emad Mohammed, Lakehead University, Canada
Fanny Klett, German Workforce ADL Partnership Laboratory, Germany
Faouzi Alaya Cheikh, Gjøvik University College, Norway
Jawad Beri, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Mohammed Boulmalf, Universite Internationale de Rabat, Morocco
Richard Khoury, Laval University, Canada
Ridha Hamila, Qatar University, Qatar
Saad Harous, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Tayeb Sadiki, Universite Internationale de Rabat, Morocco
Yacine Atif, University of Skovde, Sweden

Track: Big Data Science

Sherif Sakr, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences , Saudi Arabia (Chair)
Shadi Khalifa, Queen's University, Canada
Mourad Khayati, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Zuhair Khayyat, KAUST, UAE
Radwa El Shawi, University of Sydney, Australia
Amin Beheshti, Macquarie University, Australia
Raghava Mutharaju, GE Global Research, USA
Irena Holubova, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia
Abdelmounaam Rezgui, New Mexico Tech, USA
Ahmed Awad, Cairo University, Egypt
Mohamed Boukhebouze, CETIC Research Center, Belgium
Khouloud Boukadi, University of Blaise Pascal Clermont Ferrand 2, Tunisia
Amr Magdy, University of California, Riverside, USA
Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden

Track: Big Data Applications
Giuseppe Di Modica, University of Catania, Italy (Chair)
Shantanu Sharma, University of California, Irvine, USA
Orazio Tomarchio, University of Catania, Italy
Marco Cavallo, University of Catania, Italy
Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy