Australasian Database Conference 2012, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia,
30th January - 2nd February, 2012 http://www.eng.unimelb.edu.au/adc2012/

The Australasian Database Conference series is an annual forum for sharing
the latest research and novel applications of database systems. The 23nd
Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2012, will be held in Melbourne,
Australia, as part of the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW12).
As with previous years, registration to the Australasian Database Conference
will enable delegates to attend sessions in any conference participating
in the Australasian Computer Science Week (http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/acsw2012/ ).

ADC 2012 is featured by:

(i) invited speakers: Yufei Tao (Chinese Uni of Hong Kong),
Hua Wang (University of Southern Queensland), Geoff Webb (Monash University)

(ii) a collocated special ACM SIGSPATIAL Australian Chapter workshop:
Geographical/Spatial Data Management and Analysis. This workshop will have
exclusively invited talks given by experts in the area of geographical/spatial
data management and analysis. A poster competition with a total price of
$1000 will follow the invited talks. All ADC 2012 attendees can attend this
workshop for free!

Important Dates:
Paper submission: Monday 29th August, 2011
Author notification: Monday 10th October, 2011
Final version: Monday 7th November, 2011
Author registration: Monday 14th November, 2011
Early bird registration: Monday 5th December, 2011
Conference dates: 30th January - 2nd February, 2012

Key Areas:
* Databases for bioinformatics
* Databases and ontologies
* Data mining/knowledge discovery
* Data warehousing
* Database integration issues
* Mobile Databases
* Federated, distributed, parallel and grid databases
* High dimensional and temporal data
* Image/video retrieval and databases
* Information retrieval, filtering and dissemination
* Logic in databases
* Performance issues of databases
* Privacy and Security in Databases
* Query processing and optimisation
* Semi-structured data
* Spatial data processing/management
* Stream Data Management
* Uncertain and probabilistic databases
* Web databases
* XML and graph databases
* Data as "services"
* Web service management
* Cloud data and services
* Social media data management

Paper Submission:
ADC 2012 invites papers describing original contributions in all fields
of database research and applications. Papers should be no more than 10
pages in length conforming to the formatting instructions for the series
Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT).

Each paper will be judged on its originality, significance, technical
quality, relevance to ADC, and presentation. Submissions of a paper
should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted,
at least one author will attend the conference to present the work.
Authors should make the submissions through the site:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adc2012.

The proceedings of this event will be published by the ACS in the CRPIT
Series. The formatting requirements and resources for authors can be
found on the CRPIT Authors Page together with a list of all upcoming
volumes (http://crpit.com/Authors.html).