We invite the submission of original research contributions in the following areas. We also welcome any original contributions that may cross the boundaries among areas or point in other novel directions of interest to the database research community: -AI interaction with DB technology -Big Data, Data-Warehousing System Architectures -Benchmarking, Performance Modelling, and Tuning -Crowdsourcing -Cloud Computing and Database-as-a-Service -Database Privacy, Security, and Trust -Data Science -Data Integration, Metadata Management, and Interoperability -Data Models, Semantics, Query languages -Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery -Data Provenance, Workflows, Scientific Data Management -Data Stream Systems and Sensor Networks -Data Visualization and Interactive Data Exploration -Distributed, Parallel and P2P Data Management -High Performance Transaction Management -Information Extraction, Data Cleaning Curation -Modern Hardware and In-Memory Database Systems -Query Processing, Indexing, and Optimization -Scalable Analytics, Graph, RDF, Web Data and Social Networks -Strings, Texts, and Keyword Search -Temporal, Spatial, Mobile and Multimedia Data -Uncertain, Probabilistic and Approximate Databases