Topics
Original papers dealing with both theory and/or applications of database technology and information systems are solicited. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Database theory
- Indexing and search
- Query processing and optimization
- Data modeling and database design
- Physical database design and performance evaluation
- Database systems architectures
- Advanced databases (objectrelational, web-based, multimedia, temporal, spatial, active, deductive, grid, real-time, etc.)
- Advanced database applications
- Middleware for connecting databases and applications
- Heterogeneous databases interoperability and mediation, data and knowledge grids
- Replication and caching
- Native semi-structured data and XML
- Data quality
- XML and databases, web services
- Databases as services
- Data mining, data warehousing, and knowledge discovery
- Data streams
- Semantic-based knowledge systems
- Conceptual modeling and ontologies
- Content management
- Knowledge management and information systems
- Enterprise engineering, information systems engineering, and software engineering
- Services science and information systems
- Business process modeling, advanced transaction and workflow management
- Advanced information systems and applications
- Intelligent information systems
- Distributed information systems
- Cross-enterprise information systems
- Mobile technologies and information systems
- Embedded and autonomous information systems
- Service-oriented and componentbased information systems
- E-business, e-government, e-commerce
- Educational information systems
- Information systems in healthcare
- Innovation management information systems
- Logistics information systems
- Business intelligence systems
- Bioinformatics
- Security of databases and information systems
- Personalization in databases and information systems
- Advanced methods and tools for information systems design
- Best practices in large and small scale databases and information systems