Areas of Interest

The following list is an indicative, but not exhaustive, list of areas of interest:

• Active databases
• Approximation, uncertainty, and probabilistic databases
• Benchmarking and performance evaluation
• Concurrency control and recovery
• Cross-language retrieval, multilingual retrieval, machine translation for IR
• Data cleaning, transformation, migration, and lineage
• Data mining and knowledge discovery
• Data models, semantics, and query languages
• Data privacy and security
• Data stream and publish-subscribe systems
• Data warehousing and OLAP
• Databases and Grid Computing
• Digital libraries
• Embedded, sensor, and mobile databases
• Intranet/enterprise search, citation/link analysis, digital libraries, distributed IR
• Metadata management
• Middleware and workflow management
• Mining streams, graph-structured data, high-dimensional data
• Mining text, semi-structured, spatial and temporal data
• Multimedia data access, retrieval and mining
• Optimization, performance, availability, and reliability
• Parallel, distributed, and heterogeneous databases
• Peer-to-peer and networked data management
• Personalized information systems
• Physical database design, indexing, and tuning
• Performance, reliability, robustness, compression, scalability
• Replication, caching, and view management
• Scientific, biological, and statistical databases
• Spatial, temporal, and real-time databases
• Storage and transaction management
• Summarization, question answering, NLP for IR, information extraction
• Text, XML, semistructured data and information retrieval and search
• Topic detection/tracking, content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, agents
• User interfaces and data visualization
• Views and View Management
• Web information, web services and semantic web
• Workflow Management