Call for papers

Important Dates

Conference Theme

Data management constitutes the essential enabling technology for scientific, engineering, business, and social communities. Established data management solutions are challenged by the needs of applications such as the Semantic Web, the management of scientific data, data management at Web scale, virtual libraries or embedded databases.

The database community has a longstanding tradition of contributing with models, algorithms, and architectures, to the set of tools and applications enabling day-to-day functioning of our societies. Faced with the broad challenges of today's technologies and applications, this community constantly broadens its reach, exploiting new hardware and software tools such as graphic processors, card chips, or peer-to-peer networks of thousands of machines, to achieve new innovative results.

Researchers are encouraged to send contributions that advance the state of the art in data management in the large. We are interested in contributions concerning models, algorithms, methodology, system architecture or performance studies.

Topics of Interest

EDBT 2010 invites submissions of original research contributions, as well as descriptions of industrial and application achievements and proposals for panels, tutorials and software demonstrations. A separate call for workshop proposals will follow soon.

The conference covers a broad range of topics, including traditional database management as well new issues arising in any possible domain. Prospective authors are encouraged to consider novel topics and approaches rather than incremental improvements of existing results. We welcome papers on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

Submissions guidelines

Paper submission will be electronic. All formatting should follow ACM guidelines.

Authors are required to submit a paper title and short abstract (about 100 words) before submitting the paper. The deadline for abstract submissions is September 8, 2009.

NEW:The length of a submission should not exceed 12 pages.

If the authors believe more details are necessary to substantiate the main claims of the paper, they may also include a clearly marked appendix to be read at the discretion of the committee. Papers not conforming to these requirements may be rejected without further consideration.

Submission website

The first page should include the title of the paper, names and affiliations of authors, a brief synopsis, and the contact author's name, address, phone number, fax number, and email address. Papers must be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess their merits. They should begin with a succinct statement of the issues, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance and relevance to the conference, all phrased for the non-specialist. Technical development directed to the specialist should follow. References and comparisons with related work should be included. Submissions departing significantly from these guidelines risk rejection.

The results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the formal proceedings of other symposia or workshops. All authors of accepted papers will be expected to sign copyright release forms. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present it at the conference.

The proceedings will appear in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. The access to the electronic proceedings will be completely free.

Demo Papers

Demo proposals should state the technical problem addressed by the system to be demonstrated, explain its novelty and its contribution. The proposals should also describe the demonstration scenario, with sufficient detail so that the demonstration PC can assess the facility with which conference participants can understand and appreciate the software demonstration. Demo submissions should be limited to 4 pages. As for regular papers, formatting of demo papers should follow the ACM guidelines.

Industrial and Applications Papers

The Industry and Applications Track of the EDBT 2010 Conference will be a forum for high quality presentations on innovative commercial software and applications for all facets of information technology with emphasis on database systems, information retrieval systems, metadata management, information integration and XML. Submissions must relate to commercial software or applications of research technologies in practice. Length of submission is limited to 6 pages (ACM format). Acceptance criteria will be the novelty of software and the potential impact of the solution. Position papers from industry outlining trends and novel research requirements are also welcome.

Publication and IP issues

Papers will be made available in online conference proceedings, possibly hosted within the ACM Digital Library (subject to approval).
*** To enable conference attendees and the general community to glimpse at the content a bit ahead of the conference, we plan to make the papers electronically available before the conference, on March 15, 2010.
Authors are thus encouraged to make sure the necessary patent issues are solved and enable publication by this date.