The focus of this workshop is to elicit discussion and description of application areas and open challenges in managing large-scale graph-shaped data.

Experiences including use-case descriptions, war stories and benchmarks as well as system descriptions are important ingredients of the meeting.

The workshop is co-chaired by Josep Larriba Pey (UPC) and Peter Boncz (CWI).

The workshop is organized close to the premier database systems conference SIGMOD 2016 that will be held in San Francisco (June 26-July 1, 2016). This time GRADES is co-located with the 8th TUC meeting of the sponsoring graph benchmark industry council LDBC on the premises of one of its partners at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores (CA).

Previous workshop proceedings are in the ACM Digital Library (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016) and in DBLP (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016).

The 4th GRADES workshop is co-sponsored by the Linked Data Benchmark Council (LDBC), the industry cooperation to create and maintain graph database benchmarks, benchmark practices and benchmark results and co-located with its 8th Technical User Community (TUC) meeting, the previous two days (June 22-23).