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.
As in the past, IDEAS 2018 will include tracks (Targeted Session) on current topics of interest to the community. This year, we would be organizing several; some of which are proposed below. These special tracks/themes will form part of the program along with the main event:

Big Data Applications (e.g. Health, Environment, Transport)
Data Sharing, Security and Privacy
Smart Cities and Data Analytics
Web and Cyber Security

If you and your colleagues would like to propose a track, please contact us ASAP (before February 18, 2018). Please include the topics, the track chair and the proposed addition to the program committee to handle the submissions for the track. http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/IDEAS/ideas18/ideas18_track.php

Important Dates(updated)

Jan. 18, 2018: Track/Theme Proposals
March 31, 2018: Papers submission deadline EXTENDED ++ GRACE PERIOD - Please see: http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/public_files/grace_period.php

May 06, 2018: Notification of acceptance
June 01, 2018: 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").


Invited Speakers

Sergio Greco, University of Calabria
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Jean Michel Rodriguez, IBM WW Cloud Development Director


Conference Publication


The conference proceedings will be published by ACM in their digital library; the ISBN assigned by ACM to IDEAS18 is:TBA. A version of the proceedings to be distributed to the conference attendees would be prepared by BytePress.

Organized by

University of Calabria and ICAR-CNR, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; with the cooperation of ACM, ACM SIGMOD and ACM SIGKDD, BytePress.org and ConfSys.org.

General Chairs: Bipin C. Desai, Concordia University, Montreal, Sergio Flesca, University of Calabria

Program Chairs: Ester Zumpano, University of Calabria, Elio Masciari, ICAR-CNR, Luciano Caroprese, University of Calabria,

Local Chair: Andrea Tagarelli, University of Calabria, Pierangelo Veltri, University Magna Graecia,

Publicity Chair: Luciano Caroprese, University of Calabria,



IDEAS 2018 Program Committee

http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/IDEAS/ideas18/ideas18_pc_list.php



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
Toyoma , Motomichi, Keio University
Ullman, Jeffrey, Stanford University