board. For this category, submissions are made continuously throughout the year. Authors of papers that are accepted until August 8th will be invited to present their paper during SBBD 2016 and the paper will be published in the Journal of Information and Data Management (JIDM). FULL PAPERS Submissions in this category should present research results and discussion in any of the SBBD topics of interest. They are mainly targeted to the Brazilian DB community for research diffusion. Full papers submitted to SBBD must not have been simultaneously submitted to any other forum (conference or journal), nor should they have already been published elsewhere. The acceptance of a paper implies that at least one of its authors will register for the symposium to present it. Submitted papers will be reviewed based on originality, relevance, technical soundness and clarity of presentation. Full papers must be written in Portuguese or English and not exceed 12 pages, according to the SBC template. The templates for submission are available at http://bit.ly/1coeoWk. Papers must be submitted by the deadline through EasyChair website at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbbd20162ndcycle for submissions in the second cycle. SHORT PAPERS Submissions in this category should present initial results or on-going work in any of the SBBD topics of interest. Short papers submitted to SBBD must not have been simultaneously submitted to any other forum (conference or journal), nor should they have already been published elsewhere. The acceptance of a paper implies that at least one of its authors will register for the symposium to present it. Submitted papers will be reviewed based on originality, relevance, technical soundness and clarity of presentation. This category will also accept industrial related papers, presenting innovative commercial data management systems, solutions, and architectures, database implementations, novel applications of database technology, and experience in applying recent research advances to real-world problems. Short papers must be written in Portuguese or English and not exceed 6 pages, according to the SBC template. The templates for submission are available at http://bit.ly/1coeoWk. Papers must be submitted by the deadline through EasyChair website at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbbd2016short VISION PAPERS Submissions in this category should describe visionary ideas to be presented at the conference. Vision papers should present new problems, new application domains, or new methodologies that are likely to stimulate significant new research. Research results and experiment description are not required in this type of submission. The acceptance of a paper implies that at least one of its authors will register for the symposium to present it. They must be written in Portuguese or English, append "Vision Paper:" to the title, and not exceed 6 pages, according to the SBC template. The templates for submission are available at http://bit.ly/1coeoWk. Papers must be submitted by the deadline through EasyChair website at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbbd2016vision OTHER INFORMATION The best papers submitted to SBBD in all categories will be invited to submit an extended and revised version to the Journal of Information and Data Management (JIDM). Authors of accepted papers must register and present their papers during the conference. Brazilian students may apply for funding support to attend SBBD. VENUE In its 31st edition,