The 7th International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank 2013) will be held in Riva Del Garda, Italy, in conjunction with VDLB 2013. DBRank 2013 welcomes the submission of original and previously unpublished research papers with a length of up to 6 pages (including all references and figures). Research papers should clearly describe their contribution and report their completed research results. In addition, we welcome vision papers and work-in-progress descriptions as short paper submissions with a length of up to 3 pages. Topics of interest include -- but are not limited to -- the following:

- Ranking in relational databases
- Ranking in web and XML databases
- Ranking in RDF and graph-oriented databases
- Ranking in social networks
- Ranking in distributed and peer-to-peer databases
- Ranking multimedia data
- Ranking and information extraction
- Ranking as a data exploration tool
- Ranking queries in data streams and continuous monitoring systems
- Rank-aware query processing and optimization
- New fundamental developments in top-k algorithms
- Cost-models for top-k algorithms and operators
- User preference specification and query languages
- Applications of ranking and top-k retrieval in databases
- Domain-specific ranking approaches
- Multidimensional data analysis using ranking tools
- Personalized ranking functions
- Learning user preferences and ranking functions
- Visualization and data exploration based on ranking

See https://sites.google.com/site/dbrank2013/home for more details about paper submissions and the organization of DBRank 2013.