The areas of interests of the conference include, but are not limited to the following:
- Query Language and Query Optimiztion
- Multidatabases and Federated Databases
- Security and Integrity Maintenance
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
- Parallel and Distributed Databases
- Data Warehouses
- Information Retrieval with Database Systems
- Workflow Management
- E-commerce Data Processing
- Multimedia Databases
- Internet and the WWW Data Management
- Digital Libraries
- Mobile Databases
- User Interfaces
- Temporal and Spatial Databases
- Active Databases
- Data Streams
- P2P and Grid-Based Data Management
- Sensor Data Managing
- XML Databases
- New Applications
- DB-IR Integration
- Semantic Web