Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
* Benchmarking and performance evaluation
* Data exchange and integration
* Data quality, cleaning and lineage
* Database monitoring and tuning
* Data privacy and security
* Data warehousing
* Data mining: foundations and algorithms
* Mining text, Web, and semi-structured data
* Security and privacy in data mining
* Innovative applications of data mining
* Embedded, sensor, mobile databases and applications
* Managing uncertain, imprecise and inconsistent information
* Metadata management
* Multilingual data management
* Multimedia data management and mining
* Novel Data Types
* Parallel and distributed databases
* Peer-to-peer data management
* Personalized information systems
* Query processing and optimization
* Replication, caching, and publish-subscribe systems
* Information retrieval: Formal models and algorithms
* IR in text, structured and semi-structured data
* Privacy issues in IR
* IR applications: Web search, enterprise search, collaborative filtering, Genomics
* Text search and database querying
* Semi-structured data
* Social Networks
* Storage and transaction management
* Web services