Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, the following, as they relate to scientific and statistical data management:

• Modeling of scientific data

• Exploratory analysis of scientific data

• Managing scale and complexity in scientific data

• GPU assisted scientific data analyses

• Scientific data visualization

• Indexing and querying scientific data

• Data provenance for scientific data

• Metadata management

• Design, implementation, optimization of scientific workflows

• Statistical data analysis

• Peta-scale analytics

• Sensor data and stream analytics

• Trajectory analysis

• Case studies (e.g., astrophysics, climate, energy, sustainability)

• Scientific computation in the cloud

• Security and privacy

• Spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal scientific data

• Geographical information retrieval

• Location-aware recommender systems

• Route planning on transportation networks

• Intelligent transportation systems

• Itinerary planning

• Traffic monitoring and analysis

• Crowdsourcing for touristic applications

• Location-based social networks

• System architectures