The Australasian Database Conference series is an annual forum for sharing the latest research progresses and novel applications of database systems, data driven applications and data analytics for researchers and practitioners in these areas from Australia, New Zealand and in the world. The 25th edition of the Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2014, will be held in Brisbane, Australia. ADC 2014 is the first of the new ADC conferences, which will be a key event of the 5-day Australasian Database Research Week. In addition to regular research papers, industry papers, demo sessions, plenary poster sessions and a panel session, ADC 2014 will also feature multiple keynote speeches and tutorials given by world-leading researchers and industry leaders.

Other events in the Australasian Database Research Week include a 3-day PhD School, and invited presentations about recent high quality research work and major new database and big data research initiatives in Australasia.

ADC 2014 will be held immediately after ACM SIGIR 2014 conference, which will be held from 6-11 July, 2014, in Gold Coast, which is 60 kms away from Brisbane.

ADC 2014 welcomes contributions related to all aspects of Database theory and foundation, techniques, and applications. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

* Data mining and knowledge discovery

* Data warehousing

* Database integration

* Mobile Databases

* Cloud, distributed, and parallel databases

* High dimensional and temporal data

* Image/video retrieval and databases

* Database performance and tuning

* Privacy and Security in Databases

* Query processing and optimization

* Semi-structured data and XML

* Spatial data processing and management

* Stream and Sensor Data Management

* Uncertain and probabilistic databases

* Web databases

* Graph databases

* Web service management

* Social media data management