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 2018 will include tracks (Targeted Session) on current topics of interest to the community. This year, we would be organizing several; some of which are proposed below. These special tracks/themes will form part of the program along with the main event:

Topics

A list of non-exhaustive topics can be found at: https://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/IDEAS/ideas18/ideas18_topics.php

Important Dates

Jan. 18, 2018: Track/Theme Proposals
Feb. 18, 2018: Papers submission deadline
Apr. 22, 2018: Notification of acceptance
May 25, 2018: Camera-ready deadline(Final Version of accepted submissions)
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When submitting a paper, please select the appropriate track unless you are submitting to the main event (indicated by "General Pool").
Please consult the guides given in the right hand margin for FAQ, submission guidelines etc.

Invited Speakers

- Sergio Greco, University of Calabria
- Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Jean Michel Rodriguez, WW Cloud Development Director
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Conference Publication

The conference proceedings will be published by ACM in their digital library; the ISBN assigned by ACM to IDEAS18 is:TBA. A version of the proceedings to be distributed to the conference attendees would be prepared by BytePress.
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Organized by:

University of Calabria and ICAR-CNR, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; with the cooperation of ACM, ACM SIGMOD and ACM SIGKDD, BytePress.org and ConfSys.org.

- General Chairs: Bipin C. Desai, Concordia University, Montreal, Sergio Flesca, University of Calabria
- Program Chairs: Ester Zumpano, University of Calabria, Elio Masciari, ICAR-CNR, Luciano Caroprese, University of Calabria,
- Local Chair: Andrea Tagarelli, University of Calabria, Pierangelo Veltri, University Magna Graecia,
- Publicity Chair: Luciano Caroprese, University of Calabria
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IDEAS Steering Committee

- Desai, Bipin C. (Chair) - Concordia University
- McClatchey, Richard - University of the West of England, Bristol
- Ng, Wilfred - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Pokorny, Jaroslav - Charles University
- Toyoma , Motomichi - Keio University
- Ullman, Jeffrey - Stanford University