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.


This is a call for posters by graduate students in the topics covered by IDEAS, The poster session would be held during one of the days of the IDEAS15 meeting.


The main author of the poster would be a gradate student. The advisor could be a co:author. The accepted poster would be published in the IDEAS15 proceedings. There is a limit of two pages for an accepted poster in the ACM proceedings series final version format. For the student registration fees for the poster session, please consult the Fee Schedule.


Important Dates


May 12, 2015: Poster submission deadline
June 1, 2015: Notification of acceptance
June 29, 2015: Camera-ready deadline



The poster submission for review should be about 2000 words(6-7 pages); the format of the submission should be similar to the sample given for regular papers. (Pl. do NOT submit a poster!!!!). Accepted poster will be included in the proceedings; the page limit for such posters, in the ACM proceedings format, is two pages. Please consult the guides given in the right hand margin for FAQ, submission guidelines etc.


Conference Publication

The conference proceedings will be published by ACM in their digital library; the ISBN assigned by ACM to IDEAS15 is: 978-1-4503-3414-3
A version of the proceedings to be distributed to the conference attendees would be prepared by BytePress.


Organized by

Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; with the cooperation of ACM, BytePress.org and ConfSys.org

General Chair: Bipin C. Desai, Concordia University,

Program Chair: Motomichi Toyama, Keio University,


IDEAS Steering Committee


Bernardino, Jorge Instituto Politecnico de Coimbra
Desai, Bipin C. (Chair) Concordia University
Gruenwald, Le University of Oklahoma
Ng, Wilfred Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Pokorny, Jaroslav Charles University
Saccà, Domenico Università della Calabria
Ullman, Jeffrey Stanford University