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ICDT 2027: 30th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY
Lille, France, 6-8 April 2027.
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CALL FOR PAPERS - SUBMISSION ROUND 2
ICDT is a series of international scientific conferences on research of data
management theory
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). 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 6-8 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
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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 for 2027. The upcoming second submission
cycle has deadlines as follows.
# 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, Hasso-Plattner-Institut
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:
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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
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).
* 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)
The "Database Theory in Action" track calls for short papers that
highlight valuable aspects in the application of database theory, outside
the main course of the ICDT full papers, including pragmatic challenges
and connections to other fields. In particular, papers submitted to this
track do not need to include novel theoretical contributions. We
specifically 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, as well as other scientific disciplines outside
of Computer Science. At the discretion of the program committee, there
may be invited papers to this track as well.
Papers submitted to this track must be 4 pages + references, and can be
based on a previously published paper at another venue. 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.
* Author responsibilities and responsible use of AI.
ICDT adopts the ACM Policy on authorship
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)
which describes author responsibilities and explains the expectations
on the responsible use of AI. The following summarizes and requotes the
core principles of this policy.
- Authors must be identifiable human beings. In particular, anonymous
authorship is not permitted and Artificial Intelligence (AI) does not
qualify as co-author.
- When using Artificial Intelligence in aspects that are directly relevant
to the conclusions of the research, the specific use(s) of AI tools must
be described in detail in the submission. This includes the creation of
artifacts that are directly relevant to the conclusions of the research,
such as theoretical conjectures, formal proofs, code, datasets, and charts
or figures that rely on the AI tools. By contrast, the use of Artificial
Intelligence to assist only with the writing itself need not be disclosed.
- Authors are, and will be held, accountable and responsible for any
issues that undermine the integrity of the submitted work. As such, all
authors have the responsibility to check the entire manuscript for
mistakes, inaccuracies, fraudulent or incomplete data or references,
unsupported conclusions, or any other problematic content that could
undermine the integrity of the Work.
Submissions in which integrity issues are found will be desk-rejected.
Serious cases of ethics violations will be investigated by the program
committee.
* 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]
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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
indicate that it is under review, but otherwise place no restrictions on
sharing results. This does not conflict with the anonymous submission
requirement.
* Conflicts of Interest Policy
All authors of a submission are jointly responsible for entering all and
only potential conflict-of-interest with the ICDT 2027 PC
members. Conflict declaration must occur by the abstract submission
deadline through the online submission platform.
A paper author has a conflict of interest with a PC member when, and only
when, one or more of the following conditions holds:
- The PC member is a co-author of the paper.
- The PC member has been a co-worker in the same company or university
within the past two years, or is scheduled to join the same company or
university in the next one year.
- The PC member has been a collaborator within the past two years, as
evidenced by one or more joint publications, shared grant funding, or
close research relationships, even if those have not yet resulted in
common publications. Or the PC member has been a frequent collaborator
within the past five years, as evidenced by five or more joint
publications in the last five years.
- The PC member is or was the author's primary thesis advisor, or
post-doctoral advisor, no matter how long ago.
- The PC member is a relative or close personal friend of the author.
Submissions with undeclared conflicts or spurious conflicts will be
desk-rejected.
* 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.
