[Newsletter PoDM ] Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 45, February 2024

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Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 45, February 2025
The newsletter on Principles of Data Management from databasetheory.org

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial Note
ICDT 2024 TEST-OF-TIME AWARD: Announcement of the Award Winner
ICDT 2025: Call for Research Papers
ESSAI 2024: Call for Course Proposals
KR 2024: Call for Workshops, Tutorial Proposals, and Papers

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EDITORIAL NOTE

I'd like to remind you of the recently created platform on Zulip for communication among the database theory community and then point to two changes that come with this edition of the newsletter: 

*  dbt.zulipchat.com, a newly created platform, serves as a valuable tool for fostering community connections and facilitating knowledge-sharing about individual projects. We warmly encourage you to explore dbt.zulipchat.com, where various streams await your discovery. Should you wish to engage actively, we invite you to register at https://dbt.zulipchat.com/register/. Currently, our streams cover diverse topics, including calls for papers, paper and talk announcements, research updates, and job opportunities. Join us in building a vibrant community of collaboration and information exchange.

* Starting with the February 2024 edition, also this newsletter will be available on dbt.zulipchat.com, namely through the dedicated stream dbtnewsletter.

* I have been informed by PODS/ICDT participants that they did not receive this newsletter. So I have gone through the list of authors from the past 3 editions of these conferences and added all authors to the mailing list (provided that there email address was mentioned in the paper or easy to find on the web). In case you do not want to receive the newsletter, you find a link for unsubscribing at the bottom of this mail.

Reinhard Pichler

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ICDT 2024 TEST-OF-TIME AWARD
Announcement of the Award Winner

* 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 impact in terms of research, methodology, conceptual contribution, or transfer to practice over the past decade. After careful consideration and soliciting external assessments, we came to the conclusion that Todd L. Veldhuizen's ICDT 2014 paper "Leapfrog Triejoin: A Simple, Worst-Case Optimal Join Algorithm" has greatly influenced theoretical as well as practical database reasearch and is, in fact, one of the great gems of ICDT. It clearly deserves to receive the ICDT 2024 Test-of-Time Award. Congratulations!

* The award will be presented during the EDBT/ICDT 2024 Joint
Conference, March 25-28, 2024 in Paestum, Italy:
https://dastlab.github.io/edbticdt2024/

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** ICDT 2025 - 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 28th edition of ICDT, in 2025, will take place in Barcelona, Spain.

** 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 theoretical investigation of various aspects of 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.
but 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/AI,
distributed computing,
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 2025, with deadlines as follows:

All times are Anywhere on Earth: UTC + 12

** ICDT Submission Cycle 1 **
March 11, 2024: Abstract submission
March 18, 2024: Paper submission deadline
May 27, 2024: Notification

** ICDT Submission Cycle 2 **
September 12, 2024: Abstract submission
September 19, 2024: Paper submission deadline
November 28, 2024: 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 2025 Program Committee Chair **

Sudeepa Roy, Duke University, United States

** ICDT 2025 Program Committee Members **

Pankaj Agarwal, Duke University, United States
Antoine Amarilli, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut polytechnique de Paris, France
Shaleen Deep, Microsoft Gray Systems Lab, United States
Floris Geerts, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Xiao Hu, University of Waterloo, Canada
Batya Kenig, Technion, Israel
Phokion Kolaitis, UC Santa Cruz and IBM Research - Almaden, United States
Paraschos Koutris, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Ester Livshits, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Andrew McGregor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States
Kuldeep S. Meel, University of Toronto, Canada
Stefan Mengel, CNRS, CRIL, France
Filip Murlak, University of Warsaw, Poland
Frank Neven, Hasselt University, Belgium
Liat Peterfreund, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Reinhard Pichler, TU Wien, Austria
Pierre Senellart, ENS, PSL University, France
Stavros Sintos, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Cristina Sirangelo, IRIF, Paris Diderot University, France
Dan Suciu, University of Washington, United States
Yufei Tao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Jan Van den Bussche, Hasselt University, Belgium
Remy Wang, UCLA, United States
Jef Wijsen, University of Mons, Belgium
Ke Yi, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

** Submission Instructions **
All submissions will be electronic via EasyChair. Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdt2025

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) **
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. ** New Track: Database Theory + X (4 pages) **
Continuing with the idea of broadening the scope of ICDT and showcase the impact of database theory, ICDT 2025's “Database Theory + X” track 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 + X:”. These papers should also include clear pointers to all relevant previous publications, websites, tools, repositories, etc.

The 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.

** Anonymous Submission **
>From 2024, ICDT has adopted anonymous submission (only for regular track papers, submissions should not be anonymous for the “database theory + X” track), 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. Papers authored or co-authored by program committee members are not eligible for a best paper or a best newcomer paper award.

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ESSAI 2024 - 2nd EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
CALL FOR COURSE PROPOSALS
15-26 July 2023
Athens, Greece
https://essai2024.di.uoa.gr/

* The European Summer School in Artificial Intelligence is an annual summer school under the auspices of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI). The first ESSAI in 2023 attracted 500 students, and we expect the second edition to be as successful.  
* ESSAI offers an interdisciplinary setting in which courses are offered in all areas of Artificial Intelligence from wide scientific, historical, and philosophical perspectives. Courses will consist of five 90 minute sessions, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week, to allow students to develop in-depth knowledge of a topic.
* Proposals for courses at ESSAI 2024 are invited in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to the following: Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (MAS), Causality and Causal Learning (CL), Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of AI (ELS), Foundation Models (FM), Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR), Learning Theory (LT), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Neuro-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NSLR), Planning & Strategic Reasoning (PLAN), Reinforcement Learning (RL), Robotics (ROB), Safe, Explainable and Trustworthy AI (SET), Search & Optimization (SO), Supervised and Unsupervised Learning (ML), Vision (VIS)Agent-based.
* Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories: INTRODUCTORY COURSES introduce a research field and foster a sound understanding of its basic methods and techniques; ADVANCED COURSES are targeted primarily at graduate students who wish to acquire an understanding of current research in a field of AI. 
* Proposals must be submitted in PDF format via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essai2024
Please visit https://essai2024.di.uoa.gr/ for detailed proposal guidelines 
* Important dates:   7 Feb 2024 course title submission deadline (mandatory), 14 Feb 2024 final submission. 

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KR 2024 - 21ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES OF KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING
https://kr.org/KR2024/
Hanoi, Vietnam
November 2 - 8, 2024
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS  
CALL FOR PAPERS
* Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) is a well-established and vibrant field of research within Artificial Intelligence. The KR conference series is the leading forum for timely in-depth presentation of progress in the theory and practice of the representation and computational management of knowledge.
* KR is soliciting workshops dnd tutorial proposals, as well research papers on a range of topics, please visit the website for details.
* Topics touching of the connections of KR and other fields (such as data management) are welcome.   
* Research papers submission: Abstract April 24, 2024; Full papers May 1, 2024
* Workshop and tutorial proposals submission deadline: March 25, 2024

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