[Newsletter PoDM ] Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 55, November 2025

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Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 55, November 2025
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ICDT 2027: Call for Papers
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ICDT 2027: 30th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY (ICDT 2027)
Lille, France, 6-9 April 2027.

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 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 PC Chair

  Stijn Vansummeren, Data Science Institute, Hasselt University

  # ICDT 2027 PC 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 in-person. For rare circumstances when
  unexpectedly 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.
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