The 13th International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB 2022)

Co-located with ICDE 2022 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The aim of the SMDB workshop is to provide a forum for researchers from both industry and
academia to present and discuss ideas related to self-management and self-organization in
data management systems ranging from classical databases to data stream engines to large-scale
cloud environments that utilize advanced AI, machine learning, and data mining and analysis.

**Important Dates**

Paper Abstract (optional): January 09, 2022 5pm PST
Paper Submission: January 23, 2022 5pm PST
Notification of acceptance: February 21, 2022
Camera-ready: March 14, 2022
Workshop: May 09, 2022

More info at https://db.cs.pitt.edu/smdb2022/

**Submission Guidelines**

Submission Site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SMDB2022

Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English of up to 6 pages in
the IEEE camera-ready format (templates are available at the ICDE 2022 submission guidelines page)
to the submission site (TBA). Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to submit an extended
paper of up to 8 pages for final publication. Author are also invited to submit short papers up to
4 pages. The page limit includes the bibliography and any appendix. All accepted papers will appear
in the formal Proceedings of the Conference Workshops published by IEEE CS Press, and will be
included in the IEEE digital library.

Authors of a selection of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the
Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD) journal.

**Topics of Interest**

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Principles and architecture of autonomic data management systems
* Retro-fitting existing systems vs. designing for self management
* Self-* capabilities in databases and storage systems
* Data management in cloud and multi-tenant databases
* Autonomic capabilities in database-as-a-service platforms
* Automated testing of data management systems
* Automated physical database design and adaptive query tuning
* Automated provisioning and integration
* Automatic enforcement of information quality
* Robust query processing techniques
* Self-managing database components (e.g., query optimizer, execution engine)
* Self-managing data stream engines and adaptive event-based systems
* Self-managing distributed / decentralized / peer-to-peer information systems
* Self-management of internet-scale distributed systems
* Self-management for big data infrastructures
* Monitoring and diagnostics in data management systems
* Policy automation and visualization for datacenter administration
* User acceptance and trust of autonomic capabilities
* Evaluation criteria and benchmarks for self-managing systems
* Self-evaluation of data management services in the cloud
* Use cases and war stories on deploying autonomic capabilities

**Organizing Committee**

General Chairs
Herodotos Herodotou, Cyprus University of Technology, herodotos.herodotou@cut.ac.cy
Yingjun Wu, Singularity Data Inc, wu.yj0616@gmail.com

Program Chairs
Constantinos Costa, University of Pittsburgh, costa.c@cs.pitt.edu
Bailu Ding, Microsoft Research, Bailu.Ding@microsoft.com

Publicity Chair
Demetris Trihinas, University of Nicosia, trihinas.d@unic.ac.cy

**Steering Committee**

Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, panos@cs.pitt.edu
Meichun Hsu, Oracle Corporation, meichun.hsu@oracle.com

**Program Committee**
Alkis Simitsis, Athena Research Center, Greece
Andreas Kipf, MIT, USA
Anshuman Dutt, Microsoft Research, USA
Bo Tang, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Danica Porobic, Oracle, USA
Deepak Majeti, Ahana, USA
Eduardo Cunha de Almeida, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Guoliang Li, Tsinghua University, China
Jeff LeFevre, UCSC, USA
John Paparrizos, University of Chicago, USA
Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Ken Salem, University of Waterloo, Canada
Khuzaima Daudjee, University of Waterloo, Canada
Le Gruenwald, University of Oklahoma, USA
Lin Ma, CMU, USA
Matthias J. Sax, Confluent Inc., USA
Meike Klettke, University of Rostock, Germany
Mohamed A. Sharaf, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Nikos Katsipoulakis, Snowflake, USA
Peter Triantafillou, University of Warwick, UK
Ryan Marcus, MIT, USA
Tarique Siddiqui, MSR, USA
Uta Störl, University of Hagen, Germany