Database and information systems technologies have been rapidly evolving in several directions
over the past years. New types and kinds of data new types of applications and information
systems to support them raise diverse challenges to be addressed. The so-called big data
challenge streaming data management and processing social networks and other complex data
analysis including semantic reasoning into information systems supporting for instance trading
negotiations and bidding mechanisms are just some of the emerging research topics. This volume
contains papers contributed by six workshops: ADBIS Workshop on GPUs in Databases (GID 2012)
Mining Complex and Stream Data (MCSD'12) International Workshop on Ontologies meet Advanced
Information Systems (OAIS'2012) Second Workshop on Modeling Multi-commodity Trade: Data models
and processing (MMT'12) 1st ADBIS Workshop on Social Data Processing (SDP'12) 1st ADBIS
Workshop on Social and Algorithmic Issues in Business Support (SAIBS) and the Ph.D. Consortium
associated with the ADBIS 2012 conference that report on the recent developments and an ongoing
research in the aforementioned areas.
