We invite the submission of original research contributions in the following areas but at the same time we welcome any original contributions that may cross the boundaries among areas or point in other novel directions:
Cloud Computing and Database-as-a-Service
Big Data and Data-Warehousing System Architectures
Data Integration, Metadata Management, and Interoperability
Modern Hardware and In-Memory Database Architecture and Systems
Privacy, Security, and Trust
Query Processing, Indexing, and Optimization
Social Networks, Social Web, Graph, and Personal Information Management
Crowdsourcing, Distributed, and P2P Data Management
Streams and Sensor Networks
High Performance Transaction Management
Temporal, Spatial, Mobile, and Multimedia Data
Strings, Texts, and Keyword Search
Uncertain and Probabilistic Data
Visual Data Analytics, Data Mining, and Knowledge Discovery