EDBT 2025 PhD Workshop Call for Papers

The third edition of the EDBT PhD Workshop is an opportunity for graduate students to present and discuss their research work at a premier international conference. The workshop provides a forum that facilitates interactions among PhD students and stimulates feedback from more experienced researchers.

Topics of interest

EDBT 2025 welcomes submissions from PhD students who have not yet received their PhD degree. If you are in the early stages of your studies, the submission should clearly describe the problem you are working on, explain why it is important, detail why the existing solutions are not sufficient, and outline the new solutions you are pursuing. If you are further along or close to completion, the submission should be more concrete, describing your contribution during your PhD studies so far, and what you hope to accomplish next.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: November 10, 2024 (AoE)
Notification of acceptance: January 26, 2025 (AoE)
Camera-ready copy due: February 9, 2025 (AoE)

Submission Guidelines

PhD workshop submissions must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using the PhD Workshop Track on CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/EDBT2025. Submissions must be single-author but must specify any supervisors with "supervised by" below the author's name on the paper.

Papers are limited to 4 pages in 2-column style (including all material) and must be formatted with the same rules as EDBT Workshop papers using the CEUR-ART style (templates for LaTeX and DOCX are available here: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip, and on Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt). Please make sure to enable the two-column style in the template. The font size, margins, inter-column spacing, and line spacing in the templates must be kept unchanged. As in previous years, we plan to publish the PhD workshop proceedings together with all accepted workshop papers in the CEUR-WS series.

Duplicate Submissions & Novelty Requirements

According to the general reviewing principles of EDBT/ICDT, papers submitted to the EDBT PhD Workshop must not have been published before or be under submission elsewhere during the entire reviewing period of the workshop. It is however acceptable to submit short versions of already published PhD theses or pre-prints (such as arXiv.org) to the PhD workshop. Since the PhD workshop submissions are limited to 4 pages, these will not constitute duplicate submissions according to the EDBT/ICDT principles.

Review Process

The reviewing process and decision of acceptance will balance many factors; these include the quality of your proposal and where you are within your doctoral education program. The program committee will give the strongest consideration to candidates who have a clearly developed idea, who are formally considered by their institution to be working on their dissertation, and who still have time to be influenced by participation in the PhD Workshop.

Program Chairs

Zoi Kaoudi (IT University of Copenhagen)
Martin Theobald (University of Luxembourg)

Program Committee

Ziawasch Abedjan (Technische Universität Berlin)
Johann Gamper (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Floris Geerts (University of Antwerp)
Rihan Hai (Technical University Delft)
Melanie Herschel (University of Stuttgart)
Katja Hose (Vienna University of Technology)
Georgia Koutrika (ATHENA Research Center)
Sebastian Michel (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau)
Thomas Neumann (Technical University of Munich)
Paolo Papotti (EURECOM)
Ralf Schenkel (University of Trier)
Uta Störl (University of Hagen)
Pinar Tozun (IT University of Copenhagen)
Gerhard Weikum (Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics)