5. Parallel and Distributed Data Management

Description
   The manipulation and handling of an ever increasing volume of data by current data-intensive applications requires novel techniques for efficient data management. Despite recent advances in every aspect of data management (storage, access, querying, analysis, mining), future applications are expected to scale to even higher degrees, not only in terms of volumes of data handled but also in terms of users and resources, often making use of multiple, pre-existing autonomous, distributed or heterogeneous resources. The notion of parallelism and concurrent execution at all levels remains a key element in achieving scalability and managing efficiently such data-intensive applications, but the changing nature of the underlying environments requires new solutions to cope with such changes.

   In this context, this topic seeks papers in all aspects of data management (including databases and data-intensive applications) whose focus relates to some form of parallelism and concurrency.

Focus
* Parallel, replicated, and distributed databases
* Data-intensive grids and clouds
* Parallel and distributed algorithms for data mining
* Middleware for processing large-scale data
* Distributed and parallel transaction and query processing
* Parallel file systems
* Distributed storage systems
* Sensor network data management
* Mobile data management
* Scalable web services
* Data management in P2P systems
* Parallel data streaming
* Parallel and distributed information retrieval
* Parallel and distributed knowledge discovery
* Communication for large data sets
* Data-intensive applications
* Parallel and distributed data integration
* Parallel algorithms for security and privacy in data management

Topic Committee

Global chair
Rizos Sakellariou University of Manchester, United Kingdon

Local chair
Salvatore Orlando University of Venice, Italy 

Members
Josep-L. Larriba-Pey Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain 
Srinivasan Parthasarathy  Ohio State University, United State of America 
Demetrios Zeinalipour University of Cyprus, Cyprus