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DBA began as a symposium of the IASTED International Conference on AI (Applied Informatics). However, with the increasing popularity of this conference, it became necessary, to create four separate conferences beginning in 2004, of which DBA is a part.
Database technology has been continuously challenged by demands from various areas and applications and has evolved in parallel with advances in hardware and computing techniques. New applications, issues, and emerging technologies such as data warehousing and data mining, bioinformatics, multimedia databases, object-oriented databases, trust management, and security have compelled database researchers to revisit areas of data modelling, query languages, storage, and internet compatibility. There has also been increasing research in computational intelligence, distributed computing, combining database technology, and software engineering. Areas of particular interest include biomedicine, biotechnology, and new paradigms of education.