The Australasian Database Conference series is an annual forum for exploring research, development, and novel applications of database systems. The Twentieth Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2009, will be held in Wellington, New Zealand as part of the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW09). 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.
ADC 2009 solicits contributions in all areas of database research. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest are:

* 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 database.
* 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.

Paper Submission

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. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in the Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology (JRPIT).

Important Dates

7 September 2008: Submission of full papers
3 November 2008: Notification of authors
24 November 2008: Final version due