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.