Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Benchmarking and performance evaluation

• Crowdsourcing

• Data models, semantics, query languages

• Data provenance

• Data visualization

• Data warehousing, OLAP, SQL Analytics

• Database monitoring and tuning

• Database security, privacy, access control

• Database usability

• Databases for emerging hardware

• Distributed and parallel databases

• Graph data management, RDF, social networks

• Information extraction

• Information retrieval and text mining

• Knowledge discovery, clustering, data mining

• Query processing and optimization

• Schema matching, data integration, and data cleaning

• Scientific databases

• Semi-structured data

• Spatio-temporal databases

• Storage, indexing, and physical database design

• Streams, sensor networks, complex event processing

• Transaction processing

• Uncertain, probabilistic, and approximate databases