CALL FOR PAPERS - SEBD 2024 (preliminary)


32nd Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2024)


Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy - 23-26 June 2024

Venue: Tanka Resort, Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy


Website: https://sebd2024.unica.it


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The SEBD Symposium is the major annual event of the Italian database

research community. It is designed as a gathering forum to meet,

discuss, and exchange experiences among all people from the academy and

industry who are interested in database systems and all their broad

range of applications.


IMPORTANT DATES

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Submission Deadline

March 3, 2024


Notification to Authors

April 7, 2024


Camera Ready submission

April 21, 2024



All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) standard time.



TOPICS

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The conference covers a broad range of topics, including traditional

database management and new challenges for data management in

any possible domain. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to)

the following:


- Big Data and Smart Computing;

- Data integration, Heterogeneous and Federated Databases;

- Data mining, knowledge discovery, information extraction, and data-centric machine learning;

- Data provenance, publishing, and citation;

- Data visualization;

- Data warehousing;

- Distributed and parallel databases;

- Grid, peer-to-peer databases and Cloud Computing;

- Incompleteness, inconsistency, and uncertainty in databases;

- Keyword-based and natural language access to structured data;

- Knowledge representation and reasoning;

- Ontology-based data management;

- Privacy, security, and trust management;

- Query processing and optimization, approximate query answering;

- Real-time, embedded, sensor, and mobile databases;

- Scientific and Statistical Databases;

- Semantic Web and Open Linked Data;

- Social networks and Graph databases;

- Transaction and workflow management, interoperability, and Web services;

- Big Data and AI.


SUBMISSIONS INSTRUCTIONS

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SEBD 2024 invites research, industry, application contributions, and software demonstration submissions. Regular papers presenting original work are solicited. Moreover, discussion papers containing descriptions of results already published are also welcomed.


There are three submission formats:


- Regular papers (up to 12 pages + references). Original research works. Regular papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.


- Discussion papers (up to 8 pages + references). Results and ideas of interest to the SEBD audience, including extended abstracts of recent authors’ publications, papers currently under submission, position papers, system and application descriptions, and presentations of preliminary results.


- Doctoral Consortium papers (up to 6-7 pages, including selected references). The papers should be singly authored by a Ph.D. student or a Ph.D. graduate who defended the thesis between September 2023 and February 2024; if accepted, it will be presented at the Doctoral Consortium session.

Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality.


Submissions of papers must be in English, in PDF format, and formatted following the new CEUR-ART 1-column style, which is the style requested for the camera-ready preparation. The template can be found on Overleaf (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw).


Submission system: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SEBD2024/


All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings, with Discussion Papers marked as such. Proceedings will be published on WS-CEUR.org and indexed in Scopus.


After acceptance, authors are required to re-submit the final PDF. No different format is allowed. All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference, and at least one author will be required to register for the conference.


To accommodate a potentially large number of papers, PC chairs could accommodate poster sessions in addition to regular oral sessions. A booster session will introduce all poster presentations where the authors can pitch the contribution with a 1-2 minute presentation.

Authors of accepted papers will be notified about the final decision on the presentation format.


DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

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The SEBD 2024 Doctoral Consortium will take place in a dedicated session during the

32nd Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2024), Villasimius,

Sardinia (Italy), June 23-26 2024, https://sebd2024.unica.it/.

The goal is to provide a forum for Ph.D. candidates to present their ongoing research and

receive feedback from renowned and experienced research community members. The

Consortium fosters a collaborative environment, encouraging constructive discussions and

sharing of ideas. It will be an excellent opportunity for developing person-to-person networks

to the benefit of the Ph.D. students in their future careers – as well as of the community.


Doctoral Consortium Day: Sunday, June 23, 2024



ORGANIZATION COMMITTEES

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General Chairs:

Maurizio Atzori, University of Cagliari

Paolo Ciaccia, University of Bologna


Program Chairs:

Michelangelo Ceci, University of Bari

Federica Mandreoli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia