DASFAA is an annual international database conference in the Asia-Pacific region, which showcases state-of-the-art R&D activities in database systems and their applications. It provides a forum for technical presentations and discussions among database researchers, developers and users from academia, business and industry. DASFAA 2012 will be held on 15-18 April 2012 in the beautiful port city of Busan, South Korea.

Original papers on both theoretical and practical database research are welcome. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Data management in various environments
Data mining and knowledge discovery
Database system architectures and applications
Index and storage systems
Information extraction and summarization
Information recommendation
Parallel and distributed databases
Query processing and optimization
Search technology
Semantic web and large-scale knowledge management
User interfaces for modern information systems
XML, semi-structured and graph data
Social network and privacy
Uncertain data and ranking
Time series and streams
Sensor networks and communications

All submissions should be in English. Five of the best papers will be published in a special issue of (SCIE indexed) Data & Knowledge Engineering published by Elsevier (after significant extensions and review by the journal editors). The manuscript should be formatted in Springer LNCS style and submitted as a PDF file.