Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Big data

• Relational databases

• Data warehouses and OLAP

• Stream databases

• Multidimensional databases

• Distributed databases 

• Fuzzy databases 

• Object-oriented databases 

• Catalog databases 

• Temporal and spatial databases 

• Mobile databases

• XML and semi-structured data

• Query languages and optimization

• Metadata management 

• Data management in cloud computing

• UML in designing databases 

• Performance of data processing

• Protocols, security and control of data integrity

• Databases in the Web

• Databases in management and production (MRPII/ERP/PLM)

• Business Intelligence

• Databases in bioinformatics and biomedicine

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

• New applications, systems and usage areas

• Knowledge bases

• Expert systems and artificial intelligence

• Data mining and knowledge discovery

• Data extraction and data integration

• Image and music processing

• Fuzzy sets and rough sets

• Ontologies

• Multi-agent systems

• Social networks