<div dir="ltr"><div>-----------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS<span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">22nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY (ICDT 2019) </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Lisbon, Portugal, March 26-28, 2019 </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(85,26,139)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For more info check <a href="http://edbticdt2019.inesc-id.pt/" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s3" style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(85,26,139)">http://edbticdt2019.inesc-id.pt/</span></a></span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">*About ICDT* </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">ICDT is a series of international scientific conferences on research of data management theory </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(85,26,139)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">(<a href="https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s3" style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(85,26,139)">https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages</span></a>). Since 2009, it is annually </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">and jointly held with EDBT (Extending DB Technology). The 22nd edition of ICDT, in 2019, will take place in Lisbon, Portugal. </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863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-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Data mining, information extraction, information retrieval, and database aspects of machine learning </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Data models, design, structures, semantics, query languages, and algorithms for data management </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Distributed and parallel databases, cloud computing </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Connections between databases and knowledge representation </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Graph databases, (semantic) Web data, and Web services </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Data streams and sketching </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Data-centric (business) process management and workflows </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Data and knowledge integration and exchange, data provenance, views, and data warehouses </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Domain-specific databases (multimedia, scientific, spatial, temporal, text) </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Data privacy and security, concurrency, and recovery </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">*Important dates* </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Second cycle abstract deadline: September 16, 2018 </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Full paper submission deadline: September 23, 2018 </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Notification: December 5, 2018 </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">* Program Committee * </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Program Committee Chair: </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Pablo Barcelo (University of Chile) </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Program Committee Members: </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Isolde Adler (University of Leeds)<span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Antoine Amarilli (Telecom ParisTech) </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Paul Beame (University of Washington) </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Elena Botoeva (University of Bolzano) </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Victor Dalmau (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Diego Figueira (Labri, CNRS)<span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Dominik D. Freydenberger (Loughborough University) </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Paolo Guagliardo (University of Edinburgh)<span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Zengfeng Huang (The University of New South Wales) </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Benny Kimelfeld (Technion, Israel) </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Paris Koutris (University of Wisconsin) </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Maurizio Lenzerini (Sapienza University of Rome)<span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Yakov Nekrich (University of Waterloo)<span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Matthias Niewerth (University of Bayreuth) </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Cristian Riveros (PUC, Chile) </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Sebastian Skritek (TU Vienna)<span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Julia Stoyanovich (Drexel University)<span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Szymon Torunczyk (University of Warsaw) </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Ke Yi (HKUST) </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Thomas Zeume (University of Dortmund) </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">*Submission Instructions* </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">All submissions will be electronic via EasyChair at <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdt2019" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s3" style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(85,26,139)">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdt2019</span></a>. </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">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. </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Papers must be submitted as PDF documents, using the LIPIcs style (<a href="http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s3" style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(85,26,139)">http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors</span></a>). 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. </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">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. </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register at the conference and to present the paper. </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">*Awards* </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.4px;line-height:normal;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_3863439169978900238gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">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. </span></p></div></div>