Editorial

The Brazilian Symposium on Databases is the official database event of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and the largest venue in Latin America for presentation and discussion of research results in the database domain. The 29th edition of the symposium (SBBD 2014) has been held in Curitiba, the capital of Paraná State, from the 6th to 9th of October.

The SBBD 2014 program offers a variety of activities, suited for an audience ranging from undergraduate to Ph.D. students, database professionals, and researchers. The program includes: technical sessions, short courses, tutorials, invited talks, demo sessions and a thesis and dissertation workshop. Papers presented at technical sessions have been submitted either to the Journal of Information and Data Management (JIDM) track or to the SBBD Proceedings track. JIDM articles present interesting results or novel thought-provoking ideas, and they are published in the October 2014 issue of the journal. SBBD Proceedings papers, on the other hand, present initial results or on-going work. After a thorough review process, a total of 10 high quality JIDM articles, and 18 SBBD Proceeding papers have been selected.

Given the great buzz around big data nowadays, it is no surprise that the three short courses in SBBD 2014 were related to the management of large volumes of data: (i) "Big Social Data: Princípios sobre Coleta, Tratamento e Análise de Dados Sociais", by Tiago Cruz França, Fabrício Firmino de Faria, Fabio Medeiros Rangel, Claudio Miceli de Farias, and Jonice Oliveira; (ii) "Estratégias para Proteção da Privacidade de Dados Armazenados na Nuvem", by Eliseu C. Branco Jr., Javam C. Machado, and José Maria da Silva Monteiro Filho; and (iii) "Otimização de Desempenho em Processamento de Consultas MapReduce", by Ivan Luiz Picoli, Leandro Batista de Almeida, and Eduardo Cunha de Almeida.

SBBD 2014 also offers two tutorials, both presented by experts on each topic. The first, with Brazilian authors, is "Métodos Automáticos para Desambiguação de Nomes de Autores em Repositórios de Dados Bibliográficos", by Anderson Almeida Ferreira, Alberto H. F. Laender, and Marcos André Gonçalves. The international tutorial, entitled "Human-Powered Database Operations", is presented by Dongwon Lee.

We feel honored to have three distinguished invited speakers in the 2014 edition of SBBD: (i) Gerhard Weikum, from Max Planck Institute for Informatics, who is giving a talk entitled "Big Text: from Language to Knowledge"; (ii) Juliana Freire, from New York University, talking about "Exploring Big Urban Data"; and (iii) Sandra de Amo, from Universidade Federal de Uberlâdia, with a talk entitled "Preference Mining for Personalization and Recommendation".

Finally, SBBD 2014 includes the presentation of 8 papers in the Demo session, and 15 papers in the Thesis and Dissertation Workshop.

SBBD 2014 is the result of the collective effort of a large community, which we gratefully acknowledge. We thank the local organization committee and the symposium chairs who worked hard to guarantee an outstanding symposium. We are also grateful to the Steering Committee members for their help, advice and support. Further, we thank the program committee members and external reviewers who provided high quality reviews for the submitted papers, and the authors who submitted their papers to SBBD 2014. Finally, we are grateful to our sponsors. Without their support we would not be able to organize this annual event that brings together our community.

We hope you all enjoy SBBD 2014 in Curitiba.

Carmem Satie Hara (UFPR) and Vidal Martins (PUC-PR)

SBBD 2014 Local Organization Committee Chairs