TOPICS OF INTEREST

The major topics of interest include but are not limited to the items listed below.

• Advanced applications of databases

• Agent technology and information management

• Biological and genome information systems

• Cooperative information systems

• Data and information quality

• Data management for pervasive environment

• Data migration and integration

• Data mining and knowledge discovery

• Data and Web warehousing

• Data Security

• Database languages and semantics

• Databases and electronic commerce

• Design of databases and data warehouses

• Emerging Web techniques

• Financial and engineering databases

• Internet and web-based data management

• Interoperability and heterogeneous systems

• Location dependent data management

• Metadata use and management

• Multidimensional databases and OLAP

• Multimedia information systems

• Parallel and distributed database systems

• Performance and benchmarking

• Query processing and optimization

• Semantic web

• Storage management and access methods

• Spatial and temporal databases

• Text database and information retrieval

• Transaction management

• Visualizing the structure and content of databases

• Web and database technology

• Workflow and E-services

• XML and Semi-structured data