Conferences

• The following two links provide information and statistics of the two main conferences on the principles of databases:

  • "The PODS Pages''
  • "The ICDT Pages"

• The following paper discusses some facts and figures representing 30 years of history of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems

  • 30 Years of PODS in Facts and Figures, Tom J. Ameloot, Maarten Marx, Wim Martens, Frank Neven, Justin Van Wees (pdf)

• System aspects of data management are covered by 

  • the SIGMOD Conferences
  • Conference on Extending Database Technology
  • the Very Large Data Bases Conferences
  • International Conference on Data Engineering

Gems of PODS Page

• The Gems of PODS event features topics and results in PODS that have been highly influential in the PODS community and beyond. The first edition of the Gems of PODS took place at SIGMOD/PODS2016

PODS 2016 Ron Fagin Event Page

• A special event in honor of Ron Fagin's influential and long-lasting research contributions to the principles of database systems will be held during the 2016 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference in San Francisco. Organizers: Phokion Kolaitis (UC Santa Cruz and IBM Research - Almaden and Lucian Popa (IBM Research - Almaden)

Textbooks

• Background information on database theory can be found in the following two textbooks:

  • FOUNDATIONS OF DATABASES, Serge Abiteboul, Rick Hull, Victor Vianu, 1995. http://webdam.inria.fr/Alice/
  • THE THEORY OF RELATIONAL DATABASES, David Maier, 1983. http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~maier/TheoryBook/TRD.html