ICDT 2027 Call for Papers

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.

Topics of Interest
We welcome research papers on every topic related to the principles and theory of data management, provided that there is a clear connection to foundational aspects. This includes, for example, articles on "classical" data management topics such as the following.

  • The theoretical investigation of various aspects underlying data management systems (e.g., Indexes, Concurrency and recovery, Distributed and parallel databases, Cloud computing, Privacy and security, Graph databases, Data streams and sketching, Data-centric (business) process management and workflows, Data and knowledge integration and exchange, Data provenance, Views, Data warehouses, Domain-specific databases - multimedia, scientific, spatial, temporal, text data, ...).
  • The design and study of data models and query languages.
  • The development and analysis of algorithms for data management.

This also includes papers exploring existing or identifying new connections between data management and other areas, such as the areas of: knowledge representation, semantic web, web services, information retrieval and data mining, machine learning and artificial intelligence, distributed computing, and theoretical computer science.

In all of the above, a clear emphasis on foundational aspects is expected. You may want to check https://dblp.org/db/conf/icdt/index.html to get an overview of previous editions of ICDT.

The Program Committee reserves the right to desk reject a submission when it is regarded to be out of scope.

Submission Cycles and Dates
ICDT will have two submission cycles for 2027, with deadlines as follows:

All times are Anywhere on Earth (UTC + 12)

ICDT Submission Cycle 1
March 3, 2026: Abstract submission
March 10, 2026: Paper submission
June 1, 2026: Notification

ICDT Submission Cycle 2
September 3, 2026:: Abstract submission
September 10, 2026: Paper submission
December 1, 2026: Notification

Papers rejected in the first submission cycle cannot be submitted to the second submission cycle unless explicitly requested by the reviewers.

Program Committee
ICDT 2027 Program Committee Chair:

  • Stijn Vansummeren, Data Science Institute, Hasselt University

ICDT 2027 Program Committee Members

  • Andrew McGregor, University of Massachusetts
  • Bas Ketsman,    Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  • Cristina Feier,    Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
  • Dan Suciu, University of Washington (senior PC member)
  • Emanuel Sallinger, TU Wien
  • Ester Livshits, Technion
  • Florent    Capelli, Université d'Artois
  • Floris Geerts, University of Antwerp (senior PC member)
  • Francesco Silvestri, University of Padova
  • Graham Cormode, Oxford University (senior PC member)
  • Heba (Aamer) Mohamed, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  • Jonni Virtema, University of Glasgow
  • Kuldeep S. Meel, University of Toronto
  • Leonid    Libkin, RelationalAI and  University of Edinburgh (senior PC member)
  • Mahmoud Abo Khamis, Relational AI
  • Matthias Niewerth, Bayreuth University
  • Matthias Paul Lanzinger, TU Wien
  • Paraschos  Koutris, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Qichen Wang, Nanyang Technological University
  • Rémi Morvan,     Université de Lille
  • Sara Cohen, Hebrew University
  • Sarah Kleest-Meißner, Hasselt University
  • Steffen    van Bergerem, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Yufei Tao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Submission Instructions
All submissions will be electronic via Microsoft CMT. Link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICDT2027

Papers must be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess their merits. Papers must be submitted as PDF documents, using the LIPIcs style (http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors).

Tracks

1. Regular Research Papers (15 pages, anonymized)

The results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other symposia or workshops. Papers must be at most 15 pages, excluding references. Additional details may be included in a clearly marked appendix, which, however, will be read at the discretion of the program committee (online appendices are not allowed). Papers not conforming to these requirements may be rejected without further consideration.

2. Database Theory in Action (4 pages, non-anonymized)

To broaden the scope of ICDT and showcase the impact of database theory, ICDT 2027 includes again a "Database Theory in Action" track that calls for short papers illustrating interesting applications of database theory in other domains or in solving real-world problems. These papers will be 4 pages + references, and can be based on a previously published paper at another venue. In particular, we invite papers that demonstrate novel and important connections between database theory and neighboring communities such as Database Systems, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Distributed Computing, and Industry. At the discretion of the program committee, there may be invited papers to this track as well. The title of the papers submitted to this track must start with "Database Theory in Action:". These papers should also include clear pointers to all relevant previous publications, websites, tools, repositories, etc.

Proceedings and participation

The conference proceedings will appear in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series, based at Schloss Dagstuhl. This guarantees that the proceedings will be available online and free of charge, while the authors retain the rights over their work.

At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register at the conference and to present the paper. For rare circumstances when no co-author of an accepted paper is able to travel, authors are required to contact the PC Chair early after the notification to discuss and plan possible alternate presentation options.

Anonymous Submission
Since 2024, ICDT has adopted anonymous submission (only for regular track papers; submissions for the "database theory in action" track should not be anonymous), in line with other leading conferences in the database community such as SIGMOD and PODS. The intent of anonymous submission is to ensure that the identity of the authors is not presented to the reviewers during the review process. Specifically, submitted papers must not list authors or affiliations, and must not include acknowledgments to funding sources, or other colleagues or collaborators. References to the authors' own prior work must not be distinguished from other references. Where this is not possible (for instance, when referring to a specific system to which the authors have privileged access), anonymized citations are permissible. For more background on the motivation for anonymous submissions, and the mechanisms to achieve it, please consult [Snodgrass, 2007] https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/~rts/pubs/TODS07.pdf

Simultaneously, the authors may make their submissions available to the community via pre-print services such as ArXiv and through talks. We do require that work is not labeled as "under submission at ICDT" or indicates that it is under review, but otherwise place no restrictions on sharing results. This does not conflict with the anonymous submission requirement.

Awards
An award will be given to the Best Paper. Also, an award will be given to the Best Newcomer Paper written by newcomers to the field of database theory. The latter award will preferentially be given to a paper written only by students; in that case the award will be called Best Student-Paper Award. The program committee reserves the following rights: not to give any award; to split an award among several papers; and to define the notion of a newcomer. Following a recent decision by the ICDT council, papers authored or co-authored by program committee members may be eligible for the best paper award, in which case the programme committee will take care to follow a selection procedure that avoids any conflicts of interest.