The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Data models and languages

• Data engineering tools and techniques

• Advances in query processing and optimization

• Parallel and distributed data processing

• Real-time distributed data management

• Data and information visualization

• Context-based data analysis and applications

• Outsourced database services

• Data management in the cloud

• Social network data analytics

• Sensor databases

• Data stream management

• Massive dataset mining

• Big data science and foundation

• Big data infrastructure

• Big data analytics and applications

• Big data management

• Big data for vertical industries

• NoSQL databases

• Mobile, pervasive and ubiquitous data

• Internet of things

• Flexible query answering systems

• Advances in storage and data access methods

• Crowd sourcing

• Embedded databases

• Scientific databases

• Semantic Web and Ontologies

• Security issues in big data

• Data protection in smart devices

• Advances in data access control techniques

• Advances in data security and privacy

• Security issues in outsourced database services

• Security and privacy in stream data processing

• Security and privacy in internet of things

• Data hiding and multimedia security

• Privacy-preserving data mining

• Privacy-preserving in location data

• Energy-efficient data security protocols

• Energy-efficient cryptographic algorithms

• Emerging data management systems and applications