Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, surveillance, video and image archives.internet texts and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures.

The 14th lEEE BDCloud 2024 will be hosted in Kaifeng, a charming historical city located along the southern bank of the Yellow River. Kaifeng city is the capital of eight ancient Chinese Dynasties and one of the main cradles of Chinese nation with a history of more than 2700 years.