Databases: Their Creation, Management and Utilization

Information systems are the software and hardware systems that support data-intensive applications. The journal Information Systems publishes articles concerning the design and implementation of languages, data models, process models, algorithms, software and hardware for information systems.

Subject areas include data management issues as presented in the principal international database conferences (e.g., ACM SIGMOD/PODS, VLDB, ICDE and ICDT/EDBT) as well as data-related issues from the fields of data mining/machine learning, information retrieval coordinated with structured data, internet and cloud data management, business process management, web semantics, visual and audio information systems, scientific computing, and data science. We welcome systems papers that focus on implementation considerations in massively parallel data management, fault tolerance, and special purpose hardware for data-intensive systems; theoretical papers that either break significant new ground or unify and extend existing algorithms for data-intensive applications; and manuscripts from application domains, such as urban informatics, social and natural science, and Internet of Things, which present innovative, high-performance, and scalable solutions to data management problems for those domains.

All papers should motivate the problems they address with compelling examples from real or potential applications. Systems papers must be serious about experimentation either on real systems or simulations based on traces from real systems. Papers from industrial organizations are welcome. Theoretical papers should have a clear motivation from applications and clearly state which ideas have potentially wide applicability.

Authors of selected articles that have been accepted for publication in Information Systems are invited by the EiCs to submit the experiment described in their papers for reproducibility validation. The resulting additional reproducibility paper is co-authored by the reproducibility reviewers and the authors of the original publication.

As part of its commitment to reproducible science, Information Systems also welcomes experimental reproducible survey papers. Such submissions must:
(i) apply a substantial portion of the different surveyed techniques to at least one existing benchmark and perhaps one or more new benchmarks, and
(ii) be reproducible (the validation of reproducibility will result in a separate paper following the guidelines of our Reproducibility Editor).

In addition to publishing submitted articles, the Editors-in-Chief will invite retrospective articles that describe significant projects by the principal architects of those projects. Authors of such articles should write in the first person, tracing the social as well as technical history of their projects, describing the evolution of ideas, mistakes made, and reality tests.
We will make every effort to allow authors the right to republish papers appearing in Information Systems in their own books and monographs.

Editors-in-Chief
Felix Naumann
University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany Email Felix Naumannhttp://hpi.de/naumann/people/felix-naumann.html
Dennis Shasha
New York University, New York, New York, United States Email Dennis Shasha
Gottfried Vossen
University of Münster, Munster, Germany Email Gottfried Vossen
Reproducibility Editor
Fernando Chirigati
New York University, New York, New York, United States
Area Editors
Sihem Amer-Yahia
Computer Science Laboratory Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Carsten Binnig
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Philippe Bonnet
University of Copenhagen, København, Denmark
Jan van den Bussche
Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
Felipe Carino Jr.
Carino Consulting, Arcadia, California, United States
Khuzaima Daudjee
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Marlon Dumas
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Mathias Fischer
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Rosalba Giugno
University of Verona Department of Computer Science, Verona, Italy
Lukasz Golab
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Krishna P. Gummadi
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
Ioannis Katakis, PhD
University of Nicosia Department of Computer Science, Lefkosia, Cyprus
Flip Korn
AT&T Labs, Florham Park, New Jersey, United States
Laks Lakshmanan
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Maurizio Lenzerini
University of Rome La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
Yannis Manolopoulos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Department of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
Heiko Paulheim
University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Manfred Reichert
Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
University of Vienna, Wien, Austria
Ralf Schenkel
University of Passau, Passau, Germany
Julia Stoyanovich
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Dan Suciu
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Yizhou Sun
University of California Los Angeles, Department of Computer Science, Los Angeles, CAhttp://web.cs.ucla.edu/~yzsun/
Jens Teubner
TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany
Matthias Weidlich
Charite University Hospital Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Limsoon Wong
National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Peixiang Zhao
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States
Editorial Advisory Board
M. Arenas
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
P.A. Bernstein
Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, United States
C. Bin
Peking University, Beijing, China
A.F. Cardenas
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
M. Castellanos
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co, Palo Alto, California, United States
R. Cheng
University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
F. Crestani
USI Faculty of Informatics, Lugano, Switzerland
A. Cuzzocrea
University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
M.L. Damiani
University of Milan, Milano, Italy
R. Dijkman
University of Technology Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands
G.C. Everest
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
A.L. Furtado
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Department of Information Technology, RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
A. Gal
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
L. Goeuriot
University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
T. Härder
University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
W. Hui Wang
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
T. Johnson
AT&T Labs, Florham Park, New Jersey, United States
S.C Khoo
National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
M.L Lee
National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
V. Leroy
University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
F. Li
The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
S. Link
The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
D. Lo
Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore
V. Markl
Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany https://www.dima.tu-berlin.de/menue/staff/volker_markl/
W. Martens
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
G. Navarro
S.B. Navathe
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
T. Palpanas
Rene Descartes University, Paris, France
D. Papadias
Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Computer Science and Engineering, New Territories, Hong Kong
M. Papazoglou
Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
G. Polese
University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy
M. Riedewald
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
S. Rozen
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
M. Safar
Kuwait University, Kuwait, Kuwait
T. Skopal
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
A. Sølvberg
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
V. Tannen
University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
A. Tomasic
Vercelle Laboratories Inc, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
S. Vansummeren
ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium
J.T.L. Wang
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, United States
A.I. Wasserman
Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale, California, United States
B. Weber
University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
J. Xu
Yahoo! Inc, Sunnyvale, California, United States
M. Yiu
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Faculty of Engineering Department of Computing, Kowloon, Hong Kong
X. Yu
York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada