A blog on the Theoretical Foundations of Data Management

Submitted by svsummer on Mon, 11/10/2025 - 15:41

ICDT is a series of international scientific conferences on research of data management theory (https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages). Since 2009, it is annually and jointly held with EDBT (Extending DB Technology).

The 30th edition of ICDT, in 2027, is planned to take place in Lille, France from 6-9 April 2027.

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We welcome research papers on every topic related to the principles and theory of data…

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Submitted by Ester Livshits on Sun, 10/05/2025 - 11:31

We solicit nominations for the ICDT 2026 Test-of-Time Award for the ICDT 2016 paper that has had the most impact in terms of research, methodology, conceptual contribution, or transfer to practice. The ICDT Test-of-Time award for 2026 will be presented during the EDBT/ICDT 2026 Joint Conference due to be held on March 24-27, 2026 in Tampere, Finland.

The ICDT 2026 Test-of-Time Award Committee consists of Wim Martens (chair, University of Bayreuth), Ester…

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Submitted by Balder ten Cate on Thu, 01/16/2025 - 13:07

** ICDT 2026 - Call for Papers **

ICDT is a series of international scientific conferences on research of data management theory (https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages). Since 2009, it is annually and jointly held with EDBT (Extending DB Technology).

The 29th edition of ICDT, in 2026, will take place in Tampere, Finland.

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Submitted by Marcelo Arenas on Mon, 10/21/2024 - 16:26

ICDT 2025 TEST-OF-TIME AWARD
Call for Nominations
March 25-28, 2025, Barcelona, Spain
https://edbticdt2025.upc.edu/

We solicit nominations for the ICDT 2025 Test-of-Time Award for the ICDT 2015 paper that has had the most impact in terms of research, methodology, conceptual contribution, or transfer to practice. The ICDT Test-of-Time award for 2025 will be presented during the EDBT/ICDT 2025…

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Submitted by Nicole Schweikardt on Sat, 02/10/2024 - 12:12

Todd L. Veldhuizen has been selected to win the ICDT 2024 Test-of-Time Award for the article "Leapfrog Triejoin: A Simple, Worst-Case Optimal Join Algorithm", published in the ICDT 2014 conference proceedings.

The 2024 Test-of-Time Award Committee consisted of Nofar Carmeli, Reinhard Pichler, and Nicole Schweikardt (chair). The committee's goal was to recognize a paper selected from the proceedings of the ICDT 2014 conference that has had the highest…

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Submitted by Nicole Schweikardt on Thu, 11/02/2023 - 17:34

ICDT 2024 TEST-OF-TIME AWARD
Call for Nominations
March 25-28, 2024, Paestum, Italy
https://dastlab.github.io/edbticdt2024/

We solicit nominations for the ICDT 2024 Test-of-Time Award for the ICDT 2014 paper that has had the most impact in terms of research, methodology, conceptual contribution, or transfer to practice. The ICDT Test-of-Time award for 2024 will be presented during the EDBT/ICDT 2024 Joint Conference due to be held on…

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Submitted by Graham Cormode on Mon, 05/22/2023 - 11:39

27th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY (ICDT 2024) 
Paestum, Italy 25th-28th March 2024
For more info check https://dastlab.github.io/edbticdt2024/

About ICDT

ICDT is a series of international scientific conferences on research of data management theory 
(https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages). Since 2009, it is annually 
and jointly held with…

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Submitted by DB news on Sun, 05/21/2023 - 22:11

Call for Participation
The 4th ACM Europe Summer School in Data Science
Athens, Greece
July 10th-14th, 2023

 Application deadline: May 31, 2023.
web site: https://europe.acm.org/seasonal-schools/data-science/2023
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The 4th ACM Europe Summer School in Data Science  | Towards building the Data Science Stack…

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Submitted by Wim Martens on Thu, 03/09/2023 - 09:37

PODS 2024 - SANTIAGO, CHILE
ACM SYMPOSIUM ON PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS
CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS
https://2024.sigmod.org/calls_papers_pods_research.shtml

The Principles of Database Systems (PODS) symposium series, held in conjunction with the SIGMOD conference series, provides a premier annual forum for the communication of new advances in the theoretical…

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Submitted by Floris Geerts on Thu, 12/29/2022 - 12:20

ICDT 2023 - 26th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2023)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Ioannina, Greece, 28–31 March 2023.
http://edbticdt2023.cs.uoi.gr 

The 26th edition of ICDT takes place in Ioannina, Greece, from 28–31 March 2023. As usual, ICDT is jointly held with EDBT, the International Conference on Extending Database Technology. EDBT/ICDT 2023 is organised as…

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