Call for 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.

As in the past, IDEAS 2017 will include tracks (Targeted Session) on current topics of interest to the community. The overall list of topics is given in topics on the left hand menu items. This year, the following special tracks have been organized along with the main event:

Big Data Applications (e.g. Health, Environment, Transport): Gregory Butler (Concordia University, Canada), Kamran Munir (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)
Data Sharing, Security and Privacy: Jianhua Shao (Cardiff University, UK), Grigorios Loukides (King's College London, UK)
Smart Cities and Data Analytics: Zaheer Khan (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)
Web and Cyber Security: Elio Masciari (ICAR-CNR, Italy)


Important Dates

May 15, 2017: Early Registration
May 26, 2017: Notification of acceptance
June 25, 2017: Camera-ready deadline


Invited Speakers

Foto Arfati, National Technical Universtity of Athens
Jiawei Han, Abel Bliss Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Omer Rana, Cardiff University


Conference Publication

The conference proceedings will be published by ACM in their digital library; the ISBN assigned by ACM to IDEAS17 is: 978-1-4503-5220-8
A version of the proceedings to be distributed to the conference attendees would be prepared by BytePress.

Organized by

University of the West of England, Bristol, England;
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada;
with the cooperation of ACM, ACM SIGMOD and ACM SIGKDD, BytePress.org and ConfSys.org.

General Chair: Bipin C. Desai, Concordia University, Montreal
Program Chair: Jun Hong, University of the West of England, Bristol,
Local Chair: Richard McClatchey, University of the West of England, Bristol ,
Publicity Chair: Kamran Munir, University of the West of England, Bristol,


Registration

ConfSys is used for all operations involving: submission, communication, registration and final upload
Pl see: http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/confsys.php

IDEAS Steering Committee

Desai, Bipin C. (Chair) Concordia University
Ng, Wilfred Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Pokorny, Jaroslav Charles University
Toyoma , Motomichi Keio University
Ullman, Jeffrey Stanford University