We invite the submission of original research contributions in the following areas. We also welcome any original contributions that may cross the boundaries among areas or point in other novel directions of interest to the database research community:

AI interaction with DB technology
Big Data, Data-Warehousing System Architectures
Benchmarking, Performance Modelling, and Tuning
Crowdsourcing
Cloud Computing and Database-as-a-Service
Database Privacy, Security, and Trust
Data Science
Data Integration, Metadata Management, and Interoperability
Data Models, Semantics, Query languages
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Data Provenance, Workflows, Scientific Data Management
Data Stream Systems and Sensor Networks
Data Visualization and Interactive Data Exploration
Distributed, Parallel and P2P Data Management
High Performance Transaction Management
Information Extraction, Data Cleaning Curation
Modern Hardware and In-Memory Database Systems
Query Processing, Indexing, and Optimization
Scalable Analytics, Graph, RDF, Web Data and Social Networks
Strings, Texts, and Keyword Search
Temporal, Spatial, Mobile and Multimedia Data
Uncertain, Probabilistic and Approximate Databases

Important dates

Abstract submission due: September 22nd, 2017, 11:59PM US PDT
Submission due: September 29th, 2017
Notification to authors (Accept/Revise/Reject): December 22nd, 2017
Revisions due: January 15th, 2018, 11:59PM US PST
Notification to authors (Accept/Reject): February 12th, 2018
Camera-ready copy due: February 26th, 2018, 11:59PM US PST
Notes for Research Papers

Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with the given submission guidelines. Research papers must not exceed 12 pages, including the bibliography and any appendix. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered. Please upload your submission to the ICDE 2018 Research Track through the submission site. Your submission must be made within the due date specified above.

A paper submitted to ICDE 2018 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the entire time it is considered for ICDE 2018, and it must be substantially different from any previously published work. Submissions are reviewed in a single-blind manner. Authors of some research papers will have an opportunity to give concise feedback on reviews within the December 3-8 period.

All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings. The best papers will be selected for extended versions to be published in the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if none of the authors attends the conference to present their paper.
Conflicts of interest

During submission of a research paper, the submission site will request information about conflicts of interest of the paper’s authors with program committee (PC) members. It is the full responsibility of all authors of a paper to identify all and only their potential conflict-of-interest PC members, according to the following definition:
A paper author has a conflict of interest with a PC member when and only when one or more of the following conditions holds:

The PC member is a co-author of the paper.
The PC member has been a co-worker in the same company or university within the past two years.
The PC member has been a collaborator within the past two years.
The PC member is or was the author’s primary thesis advisor, no matter how long ago.
The author is or was the PC member’s primary thesis advisor, no matter how long ago.
The PC member is a relative or close personal friend of the author.

Papers with incorrect or incomplete conflict of interest information as of the submission closing time are subject to immediate rejection.