Apologies for cross posting. The series of ICDT conferences (http://icdt.tu-dortmund.de/) provides an international forum for the communication of research advances on the theoretical foundations of database systems. Originally biennial, the ICDT conference has been held annually and jointly with EDBT (Extending Database Technology) since 2009.
The 20th edition of ICDT will take place in Venice, Italy from March 27th to March 31st, 2017. **ICDT has made significant changes to its submission dates, in co-ordination with its sibling conference PODS**. There are now *two submission cycles*, with the first providing the possibility of revision. The first submission cycle for ICDT 17 will be in Spring of 2016: Abstract deadline: March 18, 2016 Full paper submission deadline: March 25, 2016 Accept/Reject/Revise Notification: May 29, 2016 The second submission cycle will be close to the "traditional submission date" for ICDT: Abstract deadline: September 11, 2016 Full paper submission deadline: September 18, 2016 Notification: November 27, 2016 Any topic related to the principles of data management is relevant to this symposium. Contributions that connect data management to other areas of theoretical computer science, and those which connect database theory and database practice, are particularly welcome. Examples of relevant topics are: concurrency and recovery, distributed and parallel databases, cloud computing connections between databases and knowledge representation graph databases and (semantic) Web data data mining, information extraction, search data streams data-centric (business) process management, workflows, web services incompleteness, inconsistency, uncertainty in databases data and knowledge integration and exchange, data provenance, views and data warehouses, metadata management domain-specific databases (multi-media, scientific, spatial, temporal, text) deductive databases data privacy and security database aspects of machine learning model theory, logics, algebras, computational complexity design, semantics, query languages data models, data structures, algorithms for data management Program committee: Marcelo Arenas, Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Chile Michael Benedikt, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Meghyn Bienvenu, CNRS, France Gianluigi Greco, University of Calabria, Italy Andre Hernich, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Egor Kostylev, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Duke University, United States Yakov Nekrich, University of Waterloo, Canada Frank Neven, Hasselt University, Belgium Hung Ngo, LogicBlox Inc., United States Magdalena Ortiz, TU Wien, Austria Pawel Parys, University of Warsaw, Poland Jeff Phillips, University of Utah, United States Andreas Pieris, TU Wien, Austria Lucian Popa, IBM Almaden Research Center, United States Gabriele Puppis, CNRS, France Pierre Senellart, Telecom ParisTech, France Lidia Tendera, University of Opole, Poland Srikanta Tithapura, Iowa State University, United States Jef Wijsen, University of Mons, Belgium Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Submission instructions: Papers must be 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 no longer than 15 pages excluding references, using the LIPIcs style (http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors). Additional details may be included in a clearly marked appendix which, however, will be read at the discretion of the program committee. 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. All submissions will be electronic via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdt2017. Awards: An award will be given to the best paper. Also, an award will be given to the best 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 an 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.
