• Search and Mining of variety of data including scientific and engineering, social, sensor/IoT/IoE, and multimedia data
• Algorithms and Systems for Big Data Search
• Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search
• Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency
• Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices
• Visualization Analytics for Big Data
• Computational Modeling and Data Integration
• Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems
• Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining- Big Velocity Data
• Link and Graph Mining
• Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing
• Mobility and Big Data
• Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data
• Social Web Search and Mining
• Web Search
• Intrusion Detection for Gigabit Networks
• Anomaly and APT Detection in Very Large Scale Systems
• High Performance Cryptography
• Visualizing Large Scale Security Data
• Threat Detection using Big Data Analytics
• Privacy Threats of Big Data
• Privacy Preserving Big Data Collection/Analytics
• HCI Challenges for Big Data Security & Privacy
• User Studies for any of the above
• Sociological Aspects of Big Data Privacy
• Trust management in IoT and other Big Data Systems
• Complex Big Data Applications in Science, Engineering, Medicine, Healthcare, Finance, Business, Law, Education, Transportation, Retailing, Telecommunication
• Big Data Analytics in Small Business Enterprises (SMEs)
• Big Data Analytics in Government, Public Sector and Society in General
• Real-life Case Studies of Value Creation through Big Data Analytics
• Big Data as a Service
• Big Data Industry Standards
• Experiences with Big Data Project Deployments