We invite submissions for the 41st ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGAI Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, PODS, which is planned to take place in Philadelphia, USA, during June 2022. For over 40 years, PODS has been the leading conference in the theoretical aspects of data management, bringing together different communities such as logic and languages, knowledge representation, data mining, algorithms, web science, and privacy, with the aim of advancing…

The 2021 edition of EDBT/ICDT took place online, and featured a session on climate change, the second one taking place at that conference. I chaired this session, and we had the pleasure of having Benjamin Pierce (University of Pennsylvania and Clowdr CIC) as an outside guest.

The…

The Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) of the University of Trento is looking for a PhD candidate in the research area of "Data Intelligence" (the deadline is by mid April).

The interested candidate would work with me on "Knowledge-enriched data management", a field of Artificial Intelligence that lies at the intersection of data management and knowledge representation and reasoning. Major challenges in this field include the…

PODS 2021 accepted papers (from both submission cycles):

Albert Atserias and Phokion Kolaitis
Structure and Complexity of Bag Consistency

A. Pavan, N. V. Vinodchandran, Arnab Bhattacharya and Kuldeep S. Meel
Model Counting meets F0 Estimation

Batya Kenig and Dan Suciu
A Dichotomy for the Generalized Model Counting Problem for Unions of Conjunctive Queries…

ICDT 2022 - 25th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY

Edinburgh, March 29 - April 1, 2022

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 EDBT (Extending Data Base Technology).

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ICDT 2021 Accepted Papers

Kaleb Alway, Eric Blais and Semih Salihoglu. Box Covers and Domain Orderings for Beyond Worst-Case Join Processing

Markus L. Schmid and Nicole Schweikardt. A Purely Regular Approach to Non-Regular Core Spanners

Shaleen Deep and Paraschos Koutris. Ranked Enumeration of Conjunctive Query Results

Shangqi Lu and Yufei Tao. Towards Optimal Dynamic Indexes for Approximate (and Exact) Triangle Counting

Liat…

ICDT 2021 Test-of-Time Award Call for Nominations

We solicit nominations for the ICDT 2021 Test of Time Award for the ICDT 2011 paper that has had the most impact in terms of research, methodology, conceptual contribution, or transfer to practice.

The ICDT 2021 ToT Award Committee consists of Yael Amsterdamer (Bar Ilan University, Israel), Rasmus Pagh (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark), and Pierre Senellart (ENS, PSL University,…

The Database Group at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, is recruiting a post-doctoral researcher. The position is open to database researchers with a promising publication record who have a PhD, or are close to completing their PhD, in computer science or closely related field. A strong background in databases, machine learning, and theoretical computer science (particularly algorithms, complexity theory, and logic), as well as skills in systems…

24th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY (ICDT 2021)

Cyprus, March 23-26, 2021

* About ICDT

ICDT is an international conferences series that addresses the principles and theory of data management. Since 2009, it is annually and jointly held with EDBT, the international conference on extending database technology. See also https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages.

* Broadening Scope

As ICDT strives to broaden its scope, ICDT…

The newly released pledge No free view? No review! (not to be confused with the TCS4F pledge from the previous post) is a way for researchers to publicly express their preference for an open access publishing model. The signatories pledge that they will avoid performing peer review work for journals and conferences that do not put online the research that they publish.…