** ICDT 2026 - Call for Papers **
ICDT is a series of international scientific conferences on research of
data management theory (https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages). Since 2009,
it is annually and jointly held with EDBT (Extending DB Technology).
The 29th edition of ICDT, in 2026, will take place in Tampere, Finland.
** Topics of Interest **
We welcome research papers on every topic related to the principles and
theory of data management, provided that there is a clear connection to
foundational aspects. This includes, for example, articles on "classical"
data management topics such as:
- The theoretical investigation of various aspects of underlying data
management systems (e.g., Indexes, Concurrency and recovery, Distributed
and parallel databases, Cloud computing, Privacy and security, Graph
databases, Data streams and sketching, Data-centric (business) process
management and workflows, Data and knowledge integration and exchange, Data
provenance, Views, Data warehouses, Domain-specific databases - multimedia,
scientific, spatial, temporal, text data, ...),
- The design and study of data models and query languages,
- The development and analysis of algorithms for data management,
but also includes papers exploring existing or identifying new connections
between data management and other areas, such as the areas of: knowledge
representation, semantic web, web services, information retrieval and data
mining, machine learning/AI, distributed computing, theoretical computer
science.
In all of the above, a clear emphasis on foundational aspects is expected.
You may want to check https://dblp.org/db/conf/icdt/index.html to get an
overview of previous editions of ICDT.
The Program Committee reserves the right to desk reject a submission when
it is regarded to be out of scope.
** Submission Cycles and Dates **
ICDT will have two submission cycles for 2026, with deadlines as follows:
All times are Anywhere on Earth (UTC + 12)
** ICDT Submission Cycle 1 **
March 13, 2025: Abstract submission
March 20, 2025: Paper submission
June 1, 2025: Notification
** ICDT Submission Cycle 2 **
September 3, 2025: Abstract submission
September 10, 2025: Paper submission
December 1, 2025: Notification
Papers rejected in the first submission cycle cannot be submitted to the
second submission cycle unless explicitly requested by the reviewers.
** Program Committee **
** ICDT 2026 Program Committee Chair **
Balder ten Cate, ILLC, University of Amsterdam
** ICDT 2026 Program Committee Members **
Antonella Poggi, University of Rome Sapienza
Batya Kenig, Technion
Carsten Lutz, University of Leipzig
Cristina Sirangelo, CNRS, Université Paris Cité
Diego Figueira, CNRS, Univ Bordeaux
Dominik Freydenberger, Loughborough University
Emanuel Sallinger, TU Wien
Floris Geerts, University of Antwerp
Francesco Scarcello, Università della Calabria
Hubie Chen, King's College London
Jeff M. Phillips, University of Utah
Liat Peterfreund, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Luc Segoufin, INRIA, ENS Ulm
Mahmoud Abo Khamis, RelationalAI
Marco Calautti, Università degli Studi di Milano
Markus Schmid, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Martin Grohe, RWTH Aachen University
Matthias Niewerth, Bayreuth University
Miika Hannula, University of Tartu
Sanjay Krishnan, University of Chicago
Sebastian Rudolph, TU Dresden
Stavros Sintos, University of Illinois Chicago
Stefan Mengel, CNRS, Université d'Artois
** Submission Instructions **
All submissions will be electronic via EasyChair. Link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdt2026
Papers must be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow
the program committee to assess their merits. Papers must be submitted as
PDF documents, using the LIPIcs style (
http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors).
** Tracks **
1. ** Regular Research Papers (15 pages, anonymized) **
The results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication
elsewhere, including the proceedings of other symposia or workshops. 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.
2. ** Database Theory in Action (4 pages, non-anonymized) **
To broaden the scope of ICDT and showcase the impact of database theory,
ICDT 2026 includes again a "Database Theory in Action" track that calls for
short papers illustrating interesting applications of database theory in
other domains or in solving real-world problems. These papers will be 4
pages + references, and can be based on a previously published paper at
another venue. In particular, we invite papers that demonstrate novel and
important connections between database theory and neighboring communities
such as Database Systems, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Machine
Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Distributed
Computing, and Industry. At the discretion of the program committee, there
may be invited papers to this track as well. The title of the papers
submitted to this track must start with "Database Theory in Action:". These
papers should also include clear pointers to all relevant previous
publications, websites, tools, repositories, etc.
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.
** Anonymous Submission **
>From 2024, ICDT has adopted anonymous submission (only for regular track
papers; submissions for the "database theory in action" track should not be
anonymous), in line with other leading conferences in the database
community such as SIGMOD and PODS. The intent of anonymous submission is to
ensure that the identity of the authors is not presented to the reviewers
during the review process. Specifically, submitted papers must not list
authors or affiliations, and must not include acknowledgments to funding
sources, or other colleagues or collaborators. References to the authors'
own prior work must not be distinguished from other references. Where this
is not possible (for instance, when referring to a specific system to which
the authors have privileged access), anonymized citations are permissible.
For more background on the motivation for anonymous submissions, and the
mechanisms to achieve it, please consult [Snodgrass, 2007]
https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/~rts/pubs/TODS07.pdf
Simultaneously, the authors may make their submissions available to the
community via pre-print services such as ArXiv and through talks. We do
require that work is not labeled as "under submission at ICDT" or indicates
that it is under review, but otherwise place no restrictions on sharing
results. This does not conflict with the anonymous submission requirement.
**Awards**
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 a best paper or a best newcomer paper award.
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