The following topics have already been assigned.

Information Integration

• II.1. Optimization of user-defined ETL tasks (PUT/TUD) assigned to Fawad Ali
• II.3. Real-Time ETL for Streaming Data (AAU/PUT)
• II.5. Data Integration and ETL for Semantic Data (AAU/ULB) assigned to Rudra Nath
• II.6. Web Table Normalization (TUD/UPC) assigned to Elvis Koci
• II.7. Test Data Generation (UPC/PUT)
• II.8. Database Versioning (TUD/AAU) assigned to Kai Herrmann

Large-Scale Processing

• LSP.1. Flexible Multidimensional Data Processing (TUD/UPC) assigned to Rihan Hai
• LSP.2. Efficient Management of Data Source Fingerprints (TUD/UPC)
• LSP.3. Runtime Compilation of Data-Intensive Analytical Algorithms (TUD/AAU)
• LSP.4. Analyse and Explore the Web of Data (TUD/PUT) assigned to Ahmed Ahmedov
• LSP.6. Model-Flexible Data Processing (TUD/ULB)
• LSP.7. Hardware-Software Codesign for Analytics (TUD/PUT)
• LSP.8. Model-Based Storage and Query Processing for Big Time-Series (AAU/TUD)
• LSP.9. Load Balancing in a Cloud (PUT/TUD)
• LSP.10. Bitmap Indexing for Big Data (AAU/UPC) assigned to Lawan Subba
• LSP.13. Hybrid Database Systems (TUD/AAU)
• LSP.15. Resilience in BI Processes (TUD/PUT)
• LSP.17. Self-Tuning BI Systems (UPC/TUD) assigned to Rana Faisal Munir
• LSP.18. Physical Design Optimization of In-Memory Databases (UPC/TUD) assigned to Francesc Trull
• LSP.19. Business Analytics on Text Documents (AAU/ULB) assigned to Mohsin Iqbal
• LSP.20. Dynamic Task Scheduling and Data Collocation in Hadoop (UPC/TUD) assigned to Daria Glushkova
• LSP.22. Caching strategies for a mediated Big Data architecture (PUT/UPC) assigned to Dmitriy Pochitaev

Information Discovery

• ID.2. Requirement-driven Design and Optimization of Data Intensive Flows (UPC/ULB) assigned to Petar Jovanovic
• ID.4. Discovering Analytical Concepts from User Profiles (UPC/AAU) assigned to Jovan Varga
• ID.8. Automating User-Centered Design of Data-Intensive Processes (UPC/TUD) assigned to Vasileios Theodorou
• ID.9. Spatial Crowdsourcing (AAU/ULB) assigned to Bhuvan Gummidi

Big Data Analytics

• BDA.1. Seamlessly Integrating Data Warehouses and Forecast Models (AAU/TUD)
• BDA.3. Advanced Geo-Social Analytics (AAU/ULB) assigned to Muhammad Aamir Saleem
• BDA.4. Model-Based Database Systems (TUD/AAU) assigned to Kasun Perera
• BDA.5. Advanced Public Sector Analytics (AAU/PUT)
• BDA.6. Tools and Techniques for Sequential Data Analysis (PUT/AAU) assigned to Gaston Bakkalian
• BDA.7. Integrating Data Mining into Data Warehouses (ULB/UPC) assigned to Ayman Al-Serafi
• BDA.8. Mobility Data Management and Analysis (ULB/AAU) assigned to Faisal Moeen Orakzai
• BDA.10. Physical Data Structures for Sequential OLAP (PUT/AAU)
• BDA.11. Data Analytics in Health Care (PUT/UPC)
• BDA.13. Visual and Interactive Analytical Querying over Modern Data (AAU/TUD)
• BDA.15. Converging and Adaptive Stream Processing assigned to Rohit Kumar (ULB/UPC)
• BDA.16. Towards Prescriptive Analytics in Cyber-Physical Systems assigned to Laurynas Siksnys (AAU/TUD)
• BDA.17. Intelligence Detection and Prediction of Energy at the Device Level assigned to Bijay Neupane (AAU/TUD)
• BDA.18. Business Intelligence Solutions for Smart Grid Data Management assigned to Emmanouil Valsomatzis (AAU/UPC)
• BDA.22: Advanced Prescriptive Analytics: A General Framework for Integrated Data Management and Prescriptive Analytics assigned to Davide Frazetto (AAU/TUD)

Modeling and Semantics

• MS.1. Engineering Requirements for Business Intelligence (PUT/ULB) assigned to Azadeh Nasiri
• MS.2. Business Intelligence on the New Web (ULB/AAU) assigned to Dilshod Ibragimov
• MS.3. Business Intelligence over Linked Open Spatio-Temporal Data (AAU/ULB) assigned to Nurefsan Gur
• MS.6. Modeling Data warehouses with Multiversion and Temporal Functionality (ULB/PUT) assigned to Waqas Ahmed
• MS.10. Graph Data Warehouses (ULB/UPC) assigned to Amine Ghrab
• MS.11 Multidimensional Data Modeling for Cloud Intelligence (AAU/UPC)
• MS.12. Data Model Federation (AAU/TUD)
• MS.13. Declarative Languages for Information Extraction and Text Analytics (ULB/TUD)
• MS.14. Active Business Intelligence (ULB/AAU)
• MS.15. Modeling and processing of clinical practice guidelines (PUT/UPC) assigned to Anam Haq
• MS.16. Metadata model, storage, and retrieval for Big Data (ULB/PUT) assigned to Hiba Khalid

Collaboration and Privacy

• CP.3. Collaborative Dimensional Data Discovery (AAU/UPC)
• CP.5. Analytical Tools for Collaborative BI (PUT/UPC)