Call for Workshop Proposals
Overview
ADBIS 2025 invites workshop proposals in any area related to databases and/or information systems. Workshops focusing on challenging or emerging areas of the conference topics as well as on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entities, are strongly encouraged. Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chair: elisa.quintarelli@univr.it, e.zumpano@dimes.unical.it
The proposal should include:
- a title of the workshop
- names, affiliations, and e-mails of the organizers, with the indication of the primary contact amongst the organizers
- short bio of the workshop organizers, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable)
- (tentative) list of PC members (if already available)
- outline of the workshop’s objectives and targets
- information about past editions (if any), e.g., the associated conference, previous attendance, the outcomes, any post-workshop publication venue
- list of the workshops main topics
- the planned workshop format, e.g., the expected number of submissions, the expected number of invited speakers
- how information about the workshop will be disseminated and how papers will be solicited.
The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to:
- organize the workshops program committee
- disseminate the workshop call for papers
- solicit submissions
- conduct the reviewing process
- prepare the final workshop program.
The official language of workshops is English. The length of the workshops is 1 or 1/2 day. It is expected that at least one workshop organizer is registering and attending the workshop in presence.
Workshop papers will be published in Springer's Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series.
Important Dates
- Submission of workshop proposals: January 21, 2025
- Notification of workshop acceptance: February 4, 2025
Diversity and inclusion statement
We kindly ask workshop organizers to add the following Diversity and Inclusion Statement to the call for papers:
- We kindly ask authors to adopt inclusive language in their papers and presentations (https://dbdni.github.io/pages/inclusivewriting.html and https://dbdni.github.io/pages/inclusivetalks.html), and all participants to adopt a proper code on conduct (https://dbdni.github.io/pages/codeofconduct.html).
- We also encourage workshop organizers to explicitly promote diversity and inclusion by having diverse PC members, co-chairs and session chairpersons, considering, if possible, some PhD or postdoctoral students in the organization encourage women and underrepresented communities to submit papers to the workshops on the research outcomes of their activity ask authors of the accepted papers to provide a short bio, getting to help the audience know them.
Venue
The conference will be held at the Main Building of the City Campus of the Tampere University in Tampere, Finland.
The official address is Kalevantie 4, 33100 Tampere
Workshops Co-Chairs
Elisa Quintarelli, University of Verona (Italy)
Ester Zumpano, University of Calabria (Italy)