Papers related to the conference theme are especially solicited, including theories, methodologies, and emerging applications. The following contributions, including but not limited to the following technical areas, are invited:

Computing

    Novel computing paradigms
    Computational models
    Algorithms
    Application paradigms
    Development environments
    Compilers
    Operating environments
    Computer architecture
    Hardware substrates
    Memory technologies
    Smarter life applications

Data Engineering

    Big Data, Data-Warehousing and Analytics
    Crowdsourcing
    Cloud Computing and Database-as-a-Service
    Database Privacy, Security, and Trust
    Data Integration, Metadata Management, and Interoperability
    Data Models, Semantics, Query languages
    Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
    Data Provenance
    Data Visualization
    Graph Data
    High Performance Transaction Management
    Information Extraction and Data Cleaning
    Modern Hardware and In-Memory Database Systems
    Query Processing, Indexing, and Optimization
    Scientific databases and applications
    Social Networks and Social Web
    Spatio-temporal Databases
    Streams and Sensor Networks
    Strings, Texts, and Keyword Search
    Transaction Processing
    Temporal, Spatial, Mobile, and Multimedia Data
    Uncertain, Probabilistic and Approximate Databases