27th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY (ICDT 2024) 
Paestum, Italy 25th-28th March 2024
For more info check https://dastlab.github.io/edbticdt2024/

About ICDT

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 27th edition of ICDT, in 2024, will take place in Paestum, Italy. 

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 design and study of data models and query languages
• The development and analysis of algorithms for data management
• The theoretical investigation of various aspects underlying data management systems (indexes, concurrency, distributed computation, privacy and security, ...)

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
• 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.

Important dates

The second submission cycle for ICDT 2024 has deadlines as follows: 

Abstract deadline: September 13, 2023
Full Submission due : September 20, 2023
Notification: November 29, 2023

Submission Instructions

All submissions will be electronic via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdt2024 

Papers must be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess their merits. The results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other symposia or workshops. 

Papers must be submitted as PDF documents, using the LIPIcs style (http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors). 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. 

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

For 2024, ICDT will adopt anonymous submission, 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 should not list authors or affiliations, and should not include acknowlegments to funding sources, or other colleagues or collaborators.  References to the authors' own prior work should 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, we encouage authors to 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 any award. 

CALL FOR PAPERS
26th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2023)

ICDT is an international conference series on the principles and theory of data management. Since 2009, it is annually and jointly held with EDBT, the International Conference on Extending Database Technology. See also https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages. 

The 26th edition of ICDT takes place in Ioannina, Greece, from  28–31 March 2023 (http://edbticdt2023.cs.uoi.gr/)

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 design and study of data models and query languages;
-  The development and analysis of algorithms for data management;
-  The theoretical investigation of various aspects underlying data management systems (indexes, concurrency, distributed computation, privacy and security, ...),

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;
-  information retrieval and data mining;
-  machine learning;
-  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 has two submission cycles, the first providing the possibility of a revision.

FIRST SUBMISSION CYCLE:

March 14, 2022 (AoE): Abstract submission deadline
March 21, 2022 (AoE): Paper submission deadline
May 20, 2022: Notification

SECOND SUBMISSION CYCLE:

September 14, 2022 (AoE): Abstract submission deadline
September 21, 2022 (AoE): Paper submission deadline
November 20, 2022: Notification

Submission Instructions

All submissions will be electronic via Easychair at
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icdt2023.

Papers must be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess their merits. The results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other symposia, workshops, and journals.

Papers must be submitted as PDF documents, using the LIPIcs style (http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors). Paper length is limited to 15 pages excluding references. Additional details may be included in a clearly marked appendix which will be read at the discretion of the program committee. Online appendices are not allowed. Papers that do not conform to these requirements may be rejected without further consideration.

The proceedings will appear under an open access license in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series, based at Schloss Dagstuhl. More specifically, all articles in LIPIcs are published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. Thereby, the authors retain their copyrights and readers can re-use the published work in the most meaningful manner. The proceedings will also appear in Scopus.

At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register at the conference and present the paper.

Program Committee

Program Committee Chair:

• Floris Geerts (University of Antwerp)

Program Committee Members:

• Sepehr Assadi (Rutgers University)

• Vaishak Belle (The University of Edinburgh)

• Leopoldo Bertossi (Universidad Adolfo Ibanez)

• Graham Cormode (The University of Warwick)

• Ahmet Kara (University of Zurich)

• Batya Kenig (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)

• Bas Ketsman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

• Ester Livshits (The University of Edinburgh)

• Wim Martens (University of Bayreuth)

• Liat Peterfreund (CNRS, Université Gustave Eiffel)

• Reinhard Pichler (Vienna University of Technology)

• Andreas Pieris (University of Cyprus, The University of Edinburgh)

• Marcin Przybyłko (University of Leipzig)

• Juan L. Reutter (Pontificia Universidad Católica)

• Sudeepa Roy (Duke University)

• Jef Wijsen (University of Mons)

• Ke Yi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

• Thomas Zeume (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Proceedings Chair:

• Brecht Vandevoort (Hasselt University)

Awards

An award will be given to the Best Paper and to the Best Newcomer Paper where `newcomer' refers to the field of database theory. The latter award will preferentially be given to a paper authored only by students and in that case be called Best Student-Paper Award. The program committee reserves the right to not give any award and to split an award among several papers. Papers co-authored by program committee members are not eligible for an award.

A more traditional list of topics (not exclusive): ICDT welcomes papers on any topic related to principles of data management such as, for example, data mining, information extraction, information retrieval, database aspects of machine learning, distributed and parallel databases, cloud computing, graph databases, (semantic) Web data, web services, data streams, 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 privacy and security, concurrency, and recovery.

We invite submissions for the 41st ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGAI Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, PODS, which is planned to take place in Philadelphia, USA, from June 13th to June 15th, 2022. For over 40 years, PODS has been the leading conference in the theoretical aspects of data management, bringing together different communities such as logic and languages, knowledge representation, data mining, algorithms, web science, and privacy, with the aim of advancing the fundamentals of the tools we use to store, integrate, query, and analyze data in different contexts.

ABOUT PODS

PODS Mission. The PODS community aims to provide a solid scientific basis for methods, techniques and solutions for the data management problems that continually arise in our data-driven society. Our goal is to develop solutions that ensure a high level of efficiency, scalability, expressiveness, robustness, flexibility, security, and privacy, among others. 

The PODS community has a pivotal position in computer science research. It develops new ways of advancing data management that reflect the rich landscape of today’s data driven applications. PODS thus welcomes contributions that help to expand the breadth and the depth of the data management toolbox. The PODS community is an open space in which researchers from various  areas related to the principles of computer science can discuss, interact, and propose solutions to pressing data management problems.         

Scope. PODS seeks scientific articles that present principled contributions to modeling, application, system building, and both theoretical and experimental validation in the context of data management. Such articles might be based, among others, on establishing theoretical results, developing new concepts and frameworks that deserve further exploration, providing experimental work that sheds light on the scientific foundations of the discipline, or a rigorous analysis of both widely used and recently developed industry artifacts. 

At a time when computer science is increasingly data centric, it is essential to promote an active exchange of tools and techniques between PODS and other communities focused on data management. PODS thus pays special attention to those papers that help in the urgent process of integrating data management techniques within broader computer science. 

Topics of interest. Topics that fit the interests of the symposium include, but are not limited to:

• Database design: Data models, query languages, schemas, constraints

• Database access: Data structures, access methods, concurrency, transactions

• Data quality: Data cleaning, data discovery, data exploration 

• Database processing: Query evaluation, query optimization, schema management, distributed data processing, approximate data processing

• Data analysis: Data mining, machine learning, information extraction, data streams

• Uncertainty: Incompleteness, inconsistency, ontological query answering, semi-structured data

• Interoperability: Mappings and views, data integration, data exchange, ontology-based data access

• Responsible data management: Access control, privacy, security, verification, ethical aspects of data management

• Dynamics of  data: workflows, data-centric process management, web services, data provenance, incremental query evaluation

SUBMISSIONS

Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pods2022

Submission format. Submitted papers must be formatted using the standard ACM "sigconf" proceedings stylesheet (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). They can be up to 8 pages, not including references, plus unlimited space for references. Additional details may be included in an appendix that should be incorporated at submission time (online appendices are not allowed). However, such appendices will be read at the discretion of the program committee. 

Papers that are longer than 8 pages (without considering references) or do not cohere with the ACM proceedings style risk rejection without consideration of their merits. The results of a submitted paper must be unpublished and not submitted elsewhere, including the formal proceedings of other symposia or workshops. Authors of an accepted paper will be expected to sign copyright release forms, and one author is expected to present it at the conference.

For the first time PODS will apply a double-blind reviewing process. This implies that submitted papers must adhere to the double-blind reviewing policy described below and, in addition, authors must provide a list of potential conflicts of interest at the moment of submission. 

Double-blind reviewing. PODS 2022 will use a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. This means that submissions must adhere to the following: 

• Author names and institutions must be omitted. 

• References to the authors’ own related work should be in the third person. 

• Acknowledgements, grant numbers, and links to submitted papers in public repositories will not be allowed.  

However, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas.

Merit-based acceptance. Paper selection will be merit-based, with no a priori limit on the number of accepted papers.

Submission dates. PODS 2022 will have two submission cycles, the first one providing the possibility of a revision.  

FIRST SUBMISSION CYCLE

First cycle abstract deadline: June 11, 2021

Full paper submission deadline: June 18, 2021

Reviews sent to authors: July 31st, 2021

Rebuttal phase: August 1 - 5, 2021

Notification: August 13, 2021 

SECOND SUBMISSION CYCLE

Second cycle abstract deadline: December 10, 2021

Full paper submission deadline: December 17, 2021

Reviews sent to authors: February 28, 2022

Rebuttal phase: March 1 - 5, 2022

Notification: March 13, 2022 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 Program Committee Chair: 

• Pablo Barceló (Catholic University, Chile)

 Program Committee Members: 

• Hubert Chan (University of Hong Kong)

• Marco Console (Sapienza, University of Rome)

• Wojciech Czerwiński (University of Warsaw)  

• Cristina Feier (University of Bremen) 

• Floris Geerts (University of Antwerp)

• Ismail Ilkan Ceylan (University of Oxford)

• Aidan Hogan (University of Chile)

• Xi He (University of Waterloo)

• Xiao Hu (Duke University) 

• Rajesh Jayaram (Google Research)

• Batya Kenig (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)

• Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck, University of London)

• Paolo Guagliardo (University of Edinburgh)

• Ester Livshits (University of Edinburgh)

• Stefan Mengel (CNRS, CRIL) 

• Mikael Monet (INRIA, CRIStAL)

• Miguel Romero (Adolfo Ibáñez University) 

• Atri Rudra (University at Buffalo)

• Babak Salimi (University of California, San Diego) 

• Thomas Schwentick (Technical University of Dortmund)

• Yufei Tao (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

• Ali Vakilian (Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago)

• Victor Vianu (University of California, San Diego)

• Thomas Zeume (Ruhr University Bochum) 

INVITED SPEAKERS

Keynote Speaker 

• Frank Neven (Hasselt University)

Tutorial Speakers

• Rediet Abebe (UC Berkeley)
• Wim Martens (Bayreuth University)