New trends and innovative methods in cloud computing and big data

With the rapid development of network technology in recent years, more and more innovative computing models and related applications appear, such as mobile device based cloud computing, social network, intelligent manufacturing and e‐business, et al. Under these situations, massive data will be generated, stored and processed under various circumstances and different requirement. In order to effectively store and analyze the big data based on cloud computing architecture to realize intelligent network‐based applications, the new methodologies and technologies for both cloud computing and big data need to be proposed and developed. This special track focuses on a new strategic research area that addresses “New Trends and Innovative Methods in Cloud Computing and Big Data.” From those submitted papers for the 4th International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data (CBD 2016) held in Chengdu, Sichuan, China on August 13th –August 16th, 2016, five papers are selected that target the following research issues in big data: