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.

Track (Targeted Session) Papers

As in the past, IDEAS 2019 will include tracks (Targeted Session) on
current topics of interest to the community. This year, we would be
organizing several given below. The scope of these tracks is given in
the corresponding web page. The papers from these special tracks will
form part of the program. If you wish to participate actively in any
of them, please contact the track chair(s) or one of the organizers.

Big Data and Climate Change Impact
Data Sharing, Security and Privacy
Distributed Ledger Technology and Blockchain
Industrial Papers/Reports
On the Classic Case Pattern Mining
Privacy in the Age Of Information

All paper submission for IDEAS’2019 would be via the corresponding
pages on ConfSys. Authors should sign up as user of the system at:
https://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/ConfSys/jsp/index.jsp

FAQ for ConfSys users and author is given at:
https://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/public_files/ConfSysAuthorFAQ.php


TOPICS

A list of non-exhaustive topics can be found at:
http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/IDEAS/ideas19/ideas19_topics.php


Invited Speakers

Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna
Title: Novel Paradigms for engineering large-scale resilient IoT Systems

Foto Afrati, National Technical University of Athens
Title: The Homomorphism Property in Query Containment and Data Integration

Important Dates(updated)


April 12, 2019: Papers submission EXTENDED Deadline: ++plus grace period
Pl. see: http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/public_files/grace_period.php
May 12 2019: Notification of acceptance
May 25, 2019: Camera-ready deadline (Final Version of accepted submissions)

When submitting a paper, pl. 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.



Conference Publication

The conference proceedings will be published by ACM in their digital library; the ISBN assigned by ACM to IDEAS'2019 is: 978-1-4503-6249-8

Please see ACM's copyright policy at: https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright-policy.

For the initial submission for evaluation by the program cmt. please use single column; the reviewers find this format easier to read. The ACM templates for the final version are at: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template.

A version of the proceedings to be distributed to the conference attendees would be prepared by BytePress.


Organized by

Harokopio University of Athens, Concordia University, with the cooperation of ACM, BytePress.org and ConfSys.org.

General Chairs: .
Bipin C. Desai, Concordia University, Montreal
Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos, Harokopio University of Athens;

Program Chairs:
Yannis Manolopoulos, Open University of Cyprus
Mara Nikolaidou, Harokopio University of Athens,

Local Chair:
George Dimitrakopoulos, Harokopio University of Athens
Dimitris Michail, Harokopio University of Athens,


Track Chairs:
Béchara Albouna, University Antonine – Ticket, Lebanon
Mahmoud Barhamgi, Claude Bernard Lyon I University, France
Francesco Buccafurri, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, IT
Richard Chbeir, University Pau & Pays Adour, France
Rui Chen, Samsung, USA
Roberto Nardone, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, IT
Min Xie ,Walmart Labs, USA


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
Toyama , Motomichi Keio University
Ullman, Jeffrey Stanford University