Call for Research Track

Overview

The ADBIS series of conferences provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and promotes interaction and collaboration among the database, information systems, data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning communities from European countries and the rest of the world. ADBIS conferences have provided an international platform for researchers and developers to present and discuss cutting-edge results on database theory, data management and information technologies, data engineering, analytics and visualization, and their advanced applications. ADBIS 2025 will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as invited keynote and tutorial talks presented by leading scientists.

Topics

We invite the submission of original research contributions addressing core data management tasks, as well as techniques and technologies in the following broad areas of data management:

  • Database Management Systems
  • Information Systems Architectures and Data Services
  • Management and Mining of Heterogeneous Data Types
  • Big Data Management and Analytics
  • Scalable Data Science
  • Responsible Data Science

A list of specific topics of interest is provided below, and is by no means exhaustive:

  • Availability, reliability, and scalability
  • Benchmarking and performance evaluation
  • Bias in big data and how to mitigate it
  • Big data storage, processing and transformation
  • Business process modelling and optimization
  • Cloud data management
  • Complex event processing and data streams
  • Concurrency control, recovery and transaction management
  • Crowdsourced and collaborative data management
  • Data economy, data markets
  • Data integration and heterogeneous data management
  • Data management and analytics for semantic web and social networks
  • Data mining and knowledge discovery
  • Data models and semantics
  • Data platforms for modern hardware, and modern hardware for data platforms
  • Data quality, curation, and provenance
  • Data sovereignty, privacy, security, and access control
  • Data system benchmarking, tuning, monitoring, and performance evaluation
  • Data warehousing, large-scale analytics, and ETL tools
  • Distributed and parallel data management, distributed ledgers, and blockchains
  • Explainable data-driven systems
  • FAIRness (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability) in data analytics
  • Graph data management
  • Green data management
  • Human-data interaction
  • Human-in-the-loop data processing
  • Information system architectures and networking
  • Knowledge graphs and knowledge management
  • Metadata management and standards
  • Middleware and workflow management
  • ML/AI for DB and DB for AI/ML
  • Natural language processing for databases
  • Query processing and optimization
  • Responsible data management and ethics
  • Scientific and statistical data management
  • Semi-structured data management
  • Sensor and mobile data management
  • Spatial, temporal, and geographic data management
  • Storage, indexing, and physical database design
  • Text data management and information retrieval
  • Visualization, exploration & analytics techniques for various data types; e.g., stream, spatial, unstructured
  • Uncertain, probabilistic, and approximate data management
  • Usability, automaticity, interpretability, and explainability of data systems

Important Dates

All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE

  • Abstract submission deadline: April 23, 2025
  • Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2025
  • Notification of acceptance/shepherding: June 4, 2025
  • Camera-ready papers/end of shepherding: July 15, 2025

Paper Submission

ADBIS 2025 invites original papers (not submitted elsewhere in parallel) describing results that broadly belong to the aforementioned list of topics. Accepted long papers will be published in a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume and accepted short papers are published in Springer's Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series. The program committee may decide to accept a submission as a short paper if it reports interesting results but does not justify publication of a full paper.

LONG papers can be:

  1. Regular research papers, reporting novel, solid research findings within the scope of the conference, typically but not exclusively found in proposing new models, querying or data handling methods, algorithms, data structures, and system architectures for the management of data.
  2. Experimental re-evaluation papers, assessing previously published research results in terms of (i) performance evaluation for algorithms and systems, or, (ii) assessment of the application for methodologies, with the contribution of the paper being found (i) in the evaluation findings and (ii) in the discussion of strong and weak aspects of the algorithm/system/method being assessed.

SHORT papers can be:

  1. Early findings/work-in-progress reports for prompt dissemination and discussion of early research results, that include early experimental findings and implementations, with an emphasis on (i) the description of the early findings, (ii) the possibilities they present, and, (iii) the difficulties being faced towards full fruition.
  2. Vision papers, discussing possibilities and challenges in the exploration of radically new system architectures or methodologies for data management in important areas related to the scope of the conference, or areas that are currently considered outside the scope of the conference but hold the potential of becoming relevant.

Submission Guidelines

The page limits are as follows:

  • LONG (research or experimental) papers: 16 LNCS style pages, including references
  • SHORT (early findings or visionary) papers: up to 10 LNCS style pages, including references

Papers should be submitted in PDF format using the CMT online submission system.

Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Licence-to-Publish agreement. The corresponding author, who must match the corresponding author marked on the paper, must have the full right, power, and authority to sign the agreement on behalf of all of the authors of a particular paper, and accepts responsibility for releasing this material on their behalf. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. An author of an accepted paper must register to ADBIS 2025 in order to have the paper published, and accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the authors.

Shepherding

Borderline papers will go through a shepherding phase where they will be expected to address the concerns of the reviewers, expressed as a list of required revisions. Failing to properly address them in due time will entail final rejection. The shepherding process will involve: authors will be given a list of issues/improvements that have to be addressed within 3 weeks’ time; authors improve the paper addressing these concerns; authors submit the revised paper in camera-ready format; the PC chairs ultimately decide whether the revised paper is acceptable as is or not to the final program.

Shepherding Schedule

The schedule for shepherding is as follows (All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE):

  • Notification of shepherding status: June 4, 2025
  • Authors submit revised, camera-ready version: June 24, 2024
  • Notification of acceptance for shepherded papers: July 1, 2024
  • Camera-ready documents and copyright: July 15, 2024

Awards

Springer will sponsor the ADBIS 2025 Best Paper Award, Best PhD Symposium Paper Award, Best Demonstration and Best Short Paper, which will be announced during the ADBIS 2025 Banquet.

Special Issue

The best papers of the conference will be invited to submit an extended and revised version of their paper to a special issue in the Information Systems journal of Elsevier (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/information-systems).

Diversity and Inclusion

D&I INITIATIVE: The ADBIS community believes that diversity and culture of support encourage retention and attraction of talent, promote diversity of thought and perspective, and help make the scientific community more flexible and responsive in times of change. For these reasons, ADBIS 2025 continues to participate in the Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) initiative of the Database community aiming to guide researchers in our community to adopt a more inclusive mindset in general toward different individuals regardless of their age, gender, gender identity, race, cultural background, religion, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, parental and marital status, etc. If you have any comments, questions, suggestions, or complaints, please email the ADBIS 2025 Diversity and Inclusion chairs.

Use of Generative AI

Authors should explicitly disclose the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in their manuscripts when these tools are employed for more than just editing the author’s text. This disclosure can be made through a statement placed at the end of the manuscript, preceding the References section.

If it comes to our notice that a submission utilized large language models (LLMs) without clear disclosure, such papers will be subject to immediate desk rejection. However, if there is no usage of such technologies, no disclosure statement is required.

Program Chairs

  • Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
  • Kjetil Nørvåg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway