C A L L F O R P A P E R S


The 28th International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (DAWAK2026)

11 - 13 August, 2026
Graz, Austria

https://www.dexa.org/2026/dawak2026.html
email: dawak2026@iiwas.org
Papers submission: https://dawak2026.iiwas.org



**** IMPORTANT DATES ****
Paper submission: 15 March 2026
Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2026
Camera-ready copies due: 5 June 2026
Authors Registration deadline: 10 June 2026
Conference days: 11-13 August 2026

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DAWAK ranked B in CORE 2023
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Special issue of DATA & KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING for the best DAWAK papers
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*** PUBLICATION ***
All accepted conference papers will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). LNCS volumes are indexed in Scopus; EI Engineering Index; Google Scholar; DBLP; etc. and submitted for indexing in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), part of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science.
The best DAWAK papers will be invited to contribute to the SPECIAL ISSUE of DATA & KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING (DKE).

*** SCOPE ***
DAWAK conference is a high-quality forum for researchers, practitioners and developers in the field of Big Data Analytics, in a broad sense. The objective is to explore, disseminate and exchange knowledge in this field through scientific and industry talks. The conference covers all aspects of DAWAK research and practice, including data lakes, database design (data warehouse design, ER modelling), big data management (tables + text + files), query languages (SQL and beyond), parallel systems technology (Spark, MapReduce, HDFS), theoretical foundations and applications, text and data mining techniques, and
deep learning.
The conference will bring together active researchers from the database systems, cloud computing, programming languages and data science communities worldwide. Main topics include:
- Theoretical models for data storage
- Integration of databases and neural networks
- Conceptual model foundations for big data
- Parallel and scalable data processing
- Distributed and parallel system architectures
- Query processing and optimization
- Semantics for big data
- Data fabric and data lake architectures
- Data Pre-processing and data cleaning
- Polystore and multistore architectures
- SQL alternatives: NoSQL, NewSQL, JSON
- Cloud infrastructure; containers, virtualization
- Metadata for big data frameworks
- Big data storage and indexing
- Mobile applications
- Large-scale AI/ML for Multimodal dataa
- Data Science workflows
- Analytics on Large Graphs
- Large-scale unstructured, semi-structured data
- Data streams: networking and sensor data
- Trustworthy AI on Data Lakes, Data Grid and Data Fabric
- Deep learning on large data sets

*** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***
Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports in English. DAWAK will accept submissions of both short and full papers.
- Short papers: up to 6 pages (including references and appendixes) on preliminary work, vision papers or industrial applications
- Full papers: up to 15 pages (including references and appendixes). Full papers are expected to be more mature, contain more theory or present a survey (tutorial style) of some hot or not yet explored topics.
Papers exceeding the page limit or deviating from the formatting requirement are desk rejected.
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Duplicate submissions are not allowed and will be rejected immediately without further reviewing.
Authors are expected to agree to the following terms: "I understand that the submission must not overlap substantially with any other paper that I am a co-author of or that is currently submitted elsewhere. Furthermore, previously published papers with any overlap are cited prominently in this submission."
Questions about this policy or how it applies to a specific paper should be directed to the PC Chair.

*** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ***
Papers submission will be managed using HotCRP.
Papers submission: https://dawak2026.iiwas.org/
Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ instructions (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) and use the proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Please refer to Paper Submission procedure at DEXA2026 website (https://www.dexa.org/2026/papers-submission.html)

*** ACCEPTED PAPERS ***
Authors of all accepted papers must sign a Springer copyright release form. Papers are accepted with the understanding that at least one author will register for the conference to present the paper.

*** COMMITTEE ***
Program Committee Chair
- Carlos Ordonez, University of Houston, USA


Program committee members please refer to DAWAK2026 Website (https://www.dexa.org/2026/dawak2026.html)

For further inquiries, please contact dawak2026@iiwas.org