<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">37th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGAI Symposium on</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS (<span class="gmail-il">PODS</span> 2018)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">June 11 - June 13, 2018, Houston, Texas, USA</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">**</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-il">PODS</span> has two rounds of submissions (see dates below).</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">**</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The <span class="gmail-il">PODS</span> symposium series, held in conjunction with the SIGMOD conference series, provides a premier annual forum for the communication of new advances in the theoretical foundations of data management, traditional or non-traditional (see <a href="http://www.sigmod.org/the-pods-pages/the-pods-pages" target="_blank">http://www.sigmod.org/the-<wbr><span class="gmail-il">pods</span>-pages/the-<span class="gmail-il">pods</span>-pages</a>).</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">For the 37th edition, <span class="gmail-il">PODS</span> continues to aim to broaden its scope, and calls for research papers providing original, substantial contributions along one or more of the following aspects:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- deep theoretical exploration of topical areas central to data management;</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- new formal frameworks that aim at providing the basis for deeper theoretical investigation of important emerging issues in data management;</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- validation of established theoretical approaches from the lens of practical applicability in data management. Papers in this track should provide an experimental evaluation that gives new insight in established theories. Besides, they should provide a clear message to the database theory community as to which aspects need further (theoretical) investigation, based on the experimental findings.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">TOPICS that fit the interests of the symposium include, but are not limited to:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- concurrency & recovery, distributed/parallel databases, cloud computing</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- data and knowledge integration and exchange, data provenance, views and data warehouses, metadata management</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- data-centric (business) process management, workflows, web services</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- data management and machine learning</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- data mining, information extraction, search</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- data models, data structures, algorithms for data management</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- data privacy and security, human-related data and ethics</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- data streams</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- design, semantics, query languages</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- domain-specific databases (multi-media, scientific, spatial, temporal, text)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- graph databases and (semantic) Web data</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- incompleteness, inconsistency, uncertainty in data management</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- knowledge-enriched data management</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- model theory, logics, algebras, computational complexity</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">ORGANIZATION</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Program Chair:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Marcelo Arenas</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Program Committee:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Marcelo Arenas (Chair, Pontificia Univ. Catolica)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Edith Cohen (Google & Tel Aviv Univ.)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Sara Cohen (The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Graham Cormode (Univ. of Warwick)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Arnaud Durand (Universite Paris-Diderot)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Ronald Fagin (IBM Research - Almaden)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Francois Goasdoue (Univ. Rennes)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Sudipto Guha (Univ. of Pennsylvania)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Daniel Kifer (Pennsylvania State Univ.)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Paris Koutris (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Domenico Lembo (Sapienza Univ. of Rome)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Nicola Leone (Univ. of Calabria)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Carsten Lutz (Universitat Bremen)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Wim Martens (Universitat Bayreuth)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Marco Montali (Free Univ. of Bozen - Bolzano)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Hung Q. Ngo (LogicBlox)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Magdalena Ortiz (Vienna Univ. of Technology)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Rasmus Pagh (IT Univ. of Copenhagen)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Andreas Pieris (Univ. of Edinburgh)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Sudeepa Roy (Duke Univ.)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Francesco Scarcello (Univ. of Calabria)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Srikanta Tirthapura (Iowa State Univ.)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Domagoj Vrgoc (Pontificia Univ. Catolica)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Ke Yi (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech.)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-il">PODS</span> General Chair:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Jan Van den Bussche (Univ. of Hasselt)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Proceedings & Publicity Chair:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Adrian Soto (Pontificia Univ. Catolica)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Submitted papers must be formatted using the designated style file (sig-alternate-10.cls) which uses 10pt font size and line spacing of 11pt using the "\documentclass{sig-alternate-<wbr>10}" command in your LaTeX document. Submitted papers should be at most twelve pages, excluding bibliography. Additional details may be included in an appendix that should be incorporated at the 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 twelve pages (excluding bibliography and the appendix) or in font size smaller than 10pt or with line spacing less than 11pt risk rejection without consideration of their merits.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The submission process is online, using <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pods2018" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/<wbr>conferences/?conf=pods2018</a>. Notice that <span class="gmail-il">PODS</span> does not use double-blind reviewing, and therefore <span class="gmail-il">PODS</span> submissions should have the names and affiliations of authors listed on the paper.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The results of 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.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">IMPORTANT DATES</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">First Submission Cycle:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Abstract submission: Jun 15, 2017</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Paper submission: Jun 22, 2017</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">First notification: Aug 31, 2017</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Revision deadline: Sep 28, 2017</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Final notification: Nov 02, 2017</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Second Submission Cycle:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Abstract submission: Dec 12, 2017</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Paper submission: Dec 19, 2017</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Final notification: Feb 27, 2018</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">All deadlines end at 11:59pm AoE.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">AWARDS</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Best Paper Award: An award will be given to the best submission, as</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">judged by the program committee.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Best Student Paper Award: There will also be an award for the best</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">submission, as judged by the program committee, written by a student</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">or exclusively by students. An author is considered as a student if at</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">the time of submission, the author is enrolled in a program at a</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">university or institution leading to a doctoral/master's/bachelor's</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">degree.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The program committee reserves the right to give both awards</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">to the same paper, not to give an award, or to split an award among</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">several papers. Papers authored or co-authored by program committee</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">members are not eligible for an award.</div>
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