30th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium

IDEAS 2026
Concordia University
May 20 - 22, 2026, Montreal, Canada
Call for Papers/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.

All paper submissions for IDEAS’2026 would be via the
corresponding pages on ConfSys. Authors should sign up as
users of the system at:
https://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/ConfSys/jsp/index.jsp
ConfSys manages the reviews of each paper by at least three
members of the program committee, followed by a double
blind debate before the final decision.

TOPICS:
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A list of non-exhaustive topics can be found at:
http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/IDEAS/ideas26/ideas26_topics.php

Important Dates:
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* Mar. 1, 2026 Paper submission deadline

(When submitting a paper, please indicate whether you are submitting to one of the special tracks or the main event indicated by "General Pool").

* April 15, 2026 Notification of acceptance
* May 1, 2026: Camera-ready deadline (Final Version of accepted submissions)

When submitting a paper, please select the appropriate track
unless you are submitting to the main event (indicated
by "General Pool").

Conference Publication
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The conference proceedings will be published in the LNCS
series.

Organized by
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Concordia University with the cooperation of
Springer/LNCS , BytePress.org, ConfSys.org

Program Chairs
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Rui Chen, Samsung, USA
Bipin C. Desai, Concordia University, Canada

Local Chair
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Joey Paquette, Concordia University, Canada

Publicity Chair
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Giacomo Bergami


Steering Committee
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Bernardino, Jorge (Co-Chair) Polytechnic of Coimbra
Desai, B. C.(Chair, retiring) Concordia University
Chen, Rui Samsung
Gruenwald, Le Univ. of Oklahoma
Holubova, Irena Charles University
Kawashima, Hideyuki Keio University
Kuijpers, Bart Hasselt University
Leung, Carson K. (Co-Chair) University of Manitoba
Manolopoulos, Yannis Open University of Cyprus
McClatchey, Richard(retiring) Univ. of the West of England
Munir, Kamran UWE Bristol
Ng, Wilfred(retiring) HKUST
Pokorny, Jaroslav(retiring) Charles University
Revesz, Peter Z. (Co-Chair) Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
Toyama, Motomichi Keio University
Ullman, Jeffrey(retiring) Stanford University