The program of HDMS 2005 will consist of full or short length research and application paper presentations, hosted talks, tutorials, panels, and demonstrations of commercial products and research prototypes. It will also offer to graduate students, via the PhD forum, the opportunity to present their work in progress and receive feedback. Authors are invited to submit papers and proposals for the program on any topic related to Data Management, including but not limited to the following:

• Advanced Data Models and Query Languages
• Query Processing and Optimization
• Constraint and Rule Management
• Incomplete and Uncertain Information
• Data Warehouses and OLAP
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Workflow Management Systems
• Knowledge Bases Management Systems
• Geographic Information Systems
• Object-Relational Database Systems
• Parallel and Distributed Databases
• Real-Time Database Systems
• Sensor Networks and Embedded Databases
• Mobile Computing and Databases
• Peer-to-Peer Computing and Databases
• Approximate and Personalized Queries
• Data Replication and Caching
• Data Translation and Migration
• Data Integration and View Management
• Textual and Audiovisual Databases
• Scientific and Statistical Databases
• Spatial and Temporal Databases
• Web Data Management and Electronic Services
• User Interfaces and Data Visualization

The key criterion in judging submissions will be technical importance and depth, where novelty is secondary.