Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Database Foundations and Technology

• Access Methods, Indexing and New Hardware Devices
• Active Databases
• Authorization, Privacy and Security
• Complex Event and Stream-based Processing
• Concurrency Control and Recovery
• Data Annotation and Provenance
• Database Design
• Data Semantics
• Heterogeneous Databases
• Mobile and Sensor Databases
• Multidimensional and Temporal Databases
• Multimedia Databases
• NoSQLDatabases
• Peer to peer, Parallel and Distributed Databases
• Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking
• Query Languages and Processing
• Scientific and Statistical Databases
• Self-managed and Autonomic Databases
• Spatial Databases and Geographical Information Systems
• Workflow Applications and Databases

Information Retrieval, Web Data Management and Knowledge Representation

• Collecting, Extracting and Indexing Web Data
• Data Management in Clouds
• Data Services for the Web
• Digital Libraries and Applications
• Document Management and Classification
• Information Integration and Interoperability
• Information Retrieval Models and Techniques
• Knowledge Bases and Modeling
• Linked Data
• Ontologies
• Recommender Systems
• Semantic Web
• Semi-structured Data and XML
• String Processing
• Web data

Knowledge Discovery in Databases

• Algorithms and Techniques for Data Mining
• Applications of Data Mining
• Big Data Analytics
• Data Classification
• Data Visualization
• Data Warehousing and OLAP
• Foundations of Data Mining
• Machine Learning Applications
• Parallel and Distributed Algorithms for Data Mining
• Pre- and Post- Processing of Data and Mined Patterns
• Privacy and Security in Data Mining Algorithms

BEST PAPER AWARDS

Since 1998, SBBD sponsors the "Jose Mauro de Castilho" (JMC) Award for the symposium's best paper, which will be selected among JIDM articles.

Other awards will be given to the SBBD proceedings best paper and SBBD best demo.