We invite the submission of papers 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
• Semi-structured, Web, and Linked Data Management
• Uncertain and Probabilistic Data
• Visual Data Analytics, Data Mining, and Knowledge Discovery