The International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT)
is a leading international forum for database researchers, developers,
and users to present cutting-edge ideas, and to exchange techniques,
tools, and experiences related to data management. Data management is
an essential enabling technology for scientific, business, and social
communities. It is driven by the requirements of applications across
many scientific, business and social communities, and runs on diverse
technical platforms associated with the web, enterprises, clouds and
mobile devices. The database community has a continuing tradition of
contributing with models, algorithms and architectures to the set of
tools and applications that enable day-to-day functioning of our
societies. Faced with the broad challenges of todays applications,
data management technology constantly broadens its reach, exploiting
new hardware and software to achieve innovative results.

EDBT 2018, which will be held in beautiful Vienna, Austria on March
26-29, 2018 (http://edbticdt2018.at), invites submissions of original
research contributions, as well as descriptions of industrial and
application results, and proposals for tutorials and demonstrations.
Industrial, demo, tutorial, and short paper submissions will be the
subjects of further CFPs.

We encourage submissions of research papers related to all aspects of
data management, and particularly encourage work on topics of emerging
interest in the database research and development communities.

We welcome papers on topics including, but not limited to:
- Availability, reliability, and scalability
- Big data storage, processing and transformation
- Complex event processing and data streams
- Concurrency control, recovery, and transaction management
- Data management in clouds
- Data mining and knowledge discovery
- Data quality, curation, and provenance
- Data warehousing, large-scale analytics, and ETL tools
- Emerging hardware and in-memory databases
- Experiments and analysis
- Graph databases and semantic web
- Heterogeneous databases, data integration
- Middleware and workflow management
- Parallel, distributed and grid data management
- Privacy, trust and security in databases
- Query processing and optimization
- Scientific and statistical databases
- Semi-structured and linked data management
- Sensor and mobile data management
- Social networks and crowdsourcing
- Spatial, temporal, and geographic databases
- Text databases and information retrieval
- Tuning, monitoring, benchmarking and performance evaluation
- User interfaces and data visualization

Note that EDBT 2018 also invites the submission of Experiments and
Analyses (E&A) papers. E&A submissions focus on a comprehensive and
detailed performance evaluation, appropriate methodology, and a fair
assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of ideas published in
previous work. The scientific contribution of an E&A paper lies in
providing new insights into the strengths and weaknesses of existing
methods rather than providing new methods. Papers proposing new
solutions should be submitted to the regular research track. E&A
papers are reviewed by the same program committee as the other
research papers, but will be evaluated and assessed as appropriate for
E&A papers.

Regular research papers and E&A papers have a page limit of 12 pages.


Important dates for regular research papers:

- abstract submission deadline: October 6, 2017, 5pm PT
- paper submission deadline: October 12, 2017, 5pm PT
- notification deadline: November 17, 2017, 5pm PT
- camera-ready deadline: January 29, 2018, 5pm PT


For further information on the conference, venue, further CfPs,
formatting instructions, submission guidelines, please refer to the
EDBT 2018 website: http://edbticdt2018.at


We very much look forward to your submissions,

Michael Boehlen, PC Chair
Reinhard Pichler, General Chair