EDBT Call for Short Papers

The annual International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) is a leading international forum for researchers, developers, and users to present and discuss cutting-edge ideas, and to exchange techniques, tools and experiences related to data management.

The conference invites submissions of short work-in-progress papers, describing original research that is not fully complete, yet, it deals with significant technical or theoretical challenges, and it may have a promising solution to provide. All short papers are reviewed by the EDBT program committee. We invite contributions related to all aspects of data management. We particularly encourage submissions that focus on the following themes:

• the design and use of novel data science systems;
• synergies between database theory and database systems;
• legal, social, and ethical implications of database technology; and
• synergies between data management and machine learning.

A list of specific topics of interest is provided below, and is by no means exhaustive:

• Availability, reliability, and scalability
• Big data storage, processing and transformation
• Complex event processing and data streams
• Concurrency control
• Recovery and transaction management
• Data management in cloud
• Data mining and knowledge discovery
• Data quality, curation, and provenance
• Data warehousing
• Large-scale analytics and ETL tools
• Emerging hardware and in-memory databases
• Graph databases and semantic web
• Heterogeneous databases, data integration
• Middleware and workflow management
• Parallel, distributed and grid data management
• Privacy, security, and data protection
• Query processing and optimization
• Scientific and statistical databases
• Semi-structured and linked data management
• Sensor and mobile data management
• Social networks and crowdsourcing
• Spatial, temporal, and geographic databases
• Text databases and information retrieval
• Transparency, interpretability, and explainability
• Tuning and monitoring
• Benchmarking and performance evaluation
• User interfaces and data visualization

It is the full responsibility of all authors of a paper to identify all and only the PC members with whom they have a conflict of interest (COI), as defined below. Papers with incorrect or incomplete COI information at the time when submission closes will be desk rejected.

A paper author has a conflict of interest with a PC member when, and only when, one or several 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 organization within the past two years;
• the PC member has been a collaborator within the past two years;
• the PC member is or was the author's primary thesis advisor, no matter how long ago;
• the author is or was the PC member's primary thesis advisor, no matter how long ago; or
• the PC member is a relative or close personal friend of the author.

A paper submitted to EDBT cannot be under review at any other publishing forum or presentation venue -- including conferences, workshops, and journals -- during the entire period when the paper is being considered for EDBT. Furthermore, after a paper is submitted to EDBT, the authors must await the response and only then resubmit elsewhere if the paper is rejected (or withdrawn at their request) from EDBT.

All papers submitted to EDBT must present substantial novel research not described in any prior publication. A prior publication is either (a) a paper of five pages or more presented, or accepted for presentation, at a refereed conference or workshop with proceedings; or (b) an article published, or accepted for publication, in a refereed journal. Any violation of the duplicate submission and novelty requirements will result in an immediate rejection of the submitted paper.

Short papers are at most 4 pages long, with additional unlimited pages for references. Each paper is to be submitted as a single PDF file. Submitted papers must print without difficulty on a variety of printers using Adobe Acrobat Reader. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that their submitted PDF file prints easily on simple default configurations.

Papers should be formatted according to the latest ACM Proceedings Format without any change in terms of fonts, margins, inter-column spacing, style, footers, etc.

EDBT uses single-blind reviewing, which means that the authors should list their names and affiliations as part of their submission.

Any submitted paper violating the length, file type, or formatting requirements will be desk rejected.

All papers should be submitted electronically at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/EDBT2022.

Short paper submissions (EDBT 2022)

• December 1, 2021: Paper submission deadline
• January 15, 2022: Notification of accept/reject
• February 1, 2022: Camera-ready deadline