TO BE HELD VIRTUALLY DUE TO THE CONTINUED CONCERN WITH COVID


DUE TO THE CONTINUING CONCERN WITH COVID AND THE FACT THAT THE
VACCINATION PROGRAM IN MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD HAS BEEN SLOW, THE
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE HAS DECIDED TO MAKE IDEAS 2021 INTO A
VIRTUAL/ON-LINE MEETING.

THE DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSIN HAS BEEN EXTENDED.


CALL FOR PAPERS(REGULAR.TRACK)/PARTICIPATION

The annual IDEAS conference is a top international forum for data engineering researchers, practitioners, developers, and application users to explore revolutionary ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. We invite participation of all interested in this meeting which provides an insight into original
research contributions relating to all aspects of database engineering defined broadly, and particularly topics of emerging interest describing work on integrating new technologies into products and applications, on experiences with existing and novel techniques, and on the identification of unsolved challenges.

TRACK (TARGETED SESSION) PROPOSALS

As in the past, IDEAS 2021 will include tracks/targeted sessions on current topics of interest to the community. This year, we would be organizing several: some of which are proposed below. These special tracks/themes will form part of the program along with the main event:

The following tracks are currently in place:

Data Sharing, Security and Privacy, Bipin C. Desai,
Software Engineering for Data Science, Juan J. Cuadrado-Gallego and Olga Ormandjieva.


All paper submission for IDEAS’2021 would be via the corresponding pages on ConfSys. Authors should sign up as user of the system at:

https://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/ConfSys/jsp/index.jsp

TOPICS:

A list of non-exhaustive topics can be found at:
http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/IDEAS/ideas21/ideas21_topics.php

COVID-19:

We are hoping that by the time of the IDEAS 2021 meeting, the vaccination program for Covid-19 would have ensured the ability of the participants to travel in security. To accommodate any issues, we would make arrangements to have an on-line option(as we have done for IDEAS2020, the last meeting). However, we are looking forward to a return to open skies and face-to-face meeting.

IMPORTANT DATES

May 12, 2021: Extended Papers submission deadline: ++plus grace period
June 18, 2021: Notification of acceptance
July 9, 2021: Camera-ready deadline (Final Version of accepted submissions)
When submitting a paper, pl. select the appropriate track
unless you are submitting to the main event (indicated
by "General Pool").

CONFERENCE PUBLICATION
The conference proceedings will be published by ACM in their digital library: the ISBN assigned by ACM to IDEAS'2021 is: 978-1-4503-8991-4

A commemorative hard copy version of the proceedings, to mark the silver
anniversary of IDEAS, would be prepared by BytePress: this would be
mailed to the registered conference participants and invited speakers.


ORGANIZED BY
Concordia University with the cooperation of ACM, BytePress.org, ConfSys.org

GENERAL CHAIRS:
Bipin C. Desai, Concordia University, Canada
Jeffrey Ullman, Standford University, USA

Program Chairs:
Richard McClatchey, Univ. Of West England, U.K
Motomichi Toyama, Keio University, Japan

Track Chairs :
Jorge Bernardino ISEC, Portugal
Jaroslav Pokorny Charles University, Czech Rep.

Publicity Chair:
Elio Masciari Univ.Federico II Napoli, Italy
Peter Revesz Univ. of Nebraska, USA

IDEAS Steering Committee
Desai, Bipin C. (Chair) Concordia University
McClatchey, Richard Univ. of the West of England,
Ng, Wilfred HKUST
Pokorny, Jaroslav Charles University
Toyama, Motomichi Keio University
Ullman, Jeffrey Stanford University