[Newsletter PoDM ] Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 7, September 2017

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PoDM Newsletter 7, September 2017

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ICDT 2018 – 21st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY (CALL FOR PAPERS)

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: ICDT 2018 TEST-OF-TIME AWARD

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ICDT 2018 – 21st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY 
  Call for Papers
  March 26-29, 2018, Vienna, Austria
  http://icdt2018.technion.ac.il/
* ICDT is a series of scientific conferences on research of data management 
  theory, providing an international forum for the communication of advances 
  in the field. Since 2009, it is annually and jointly held with the EDBT 
  conference series. Starting in 2018, ICDT will have a Reach-Out track 
  dedicated to papers that suggest novel important directions for database 
  theory. The focus of this track in 2018 is on the topic of "Foundations 
  for Emerging Data Applications", targeting papers that lay the formal 
  foundations of novel data models and/or novel operations/analyses that are 
  driven by the plethora of data-centric applications in the era of Big Data.
* Every topic related to the principles of data management is relevant to 
  ICDT. Examples of relevant topics are: data mining; information extraction; 
  information retrieval; database aspects of machine learning; distributed 
  and parallel databases; cloud computing; connections between databases and 
  knowledge representation; graph databases; (semantic) Web data; Web 
  services; data streams; sketching; data-centric (business) process 
  management; workflows; data and knowledge integration and exchange; data 
  provenance; views and data warehouses; domain-specific databases; deductive 
  databases; data privacy and security; concurrency and recovery; data 
  models, design, structures, semantics; query languages and algorithms for 
  data management
* Important dates:  Second cycle abstract deadline: September 11, 2017; Full 
  paper deadline: September 18, 2017; Notification: November 27, 2017


CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
ICDT 2018 TEST-OF-TIME AWARD

Nominations are solicited for the ICDT 2018 Test of Time Award.
In order to provide comprehensive coverage of past ICDT conferences,
the ICDT Council has determined that the ICDT 2018 ToT award will cover
papers published in ICDT 1999 and 2001.

The ICDT 2018 ToT Award Committee consists of Pablo Barcelo, Richard Hull,
and Victor Vianu. The committee will select the paper or a small number of papers
from the ICDT 1999 and 2001 proceedings that has had the most impact
in terms of research, methodology, conceptual contribution, or transfer to practice.
All papers are nominated by default, but the committee welcomes input from our community.
Please feel free to nominate a paper if you think it has had great impact,
even if you have not thoroughly compared it to the other eligible papers.
The usual conflict of interest rules apply.

Please email your nominations to Pablo Barcelo (pbarcelo at gmail.com) with subject line
"ICDT 2018 ToT Award nomination" together with a brief justification.
Please send your nominations no later than October 1, 2017.
Nominations are confidential and will only be shared among the committee members.

The ICDT ToT award for 2018 will be presented during the EDBT/ICDT 2018
Joint Conference, March 26-29, 2018 in Vienna, Austria.

The ICDT 1999 papers can be found at http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icdt/icdt99.html
and the ICDT 2001 papers at http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icdt/icdt2001.html
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