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SEBD 2021            
The 29th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems
Joint with Seminar on "Reminiscence of TIDB 1981"
TUI Magic Life Calabria, Pizzo Calabro (VV), Italy, September 5-9, 2021
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The twenty-ninth edition of the Italian Symposium on Advanced Database
Systems (SEBD - Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati) is organized by Università della Calabria,
and will take place in Pizzo Calabro (Italy) from the 5th of September to the 9th of September 2021.

The symposium is the major annual event of the Italian database research community at large (English is the official language of the conference). The symposium is thought of as a gathering forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in the academy and industry, who are interested in database systems and in all their broad range of applications.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

The conference covers a broad range of topics, including traditional
database management, as well as new challenges for data management in any
possible domain. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the
following:

- Big Data and Smart Computing;
- Data integration, Heterogeneous and Federated DBMS;
- Data mining, knowledge discovery, information extraction, and machine learning;
- Data visualization;
- Data warehousing;
- Distributed and parallel databases;
- Grid, peer-to-peer databases and Cloud Computing;
- Incompleteness, inconsistency, and uncertainty in databases;
- Keyword-based and natural language access to structured data;
- Knowledge representation and reasoning;
- Ontology-based data management;
- Privacy, security and trust management;
- Query processing and optimization, approximate query answering;
- Real-time, embedded, sensor, and mobile databases;
- Scientific and Statistical Databases;
- Semantic Web and Open Linked data;
- Social networks and Graph databases;
- Transaction and workflow management, interoperability and Web services


SUBMISSIONS

Submissions must be written in English, prepared in Springer's LaTeX style
llncs (http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html), and formatted in
PDF.

SEBD 2021 invites submissions of research, industry and application contributions as well as software demonstrations. Regular papers presenting original work are solicited. Moreover, discussion papers containing descriptions of results already published are also welcomed.

There are two submission formats:

- Regular Papers (up to 12 pages)
  Original research works in the above areas

- Discussion Papers (up to 8 pages)
  Results and ideas of interest to the SEBD audience, including extended
  abstract of recent own publications, position papers, system and
  application descriptions, and presentations of preliminary results

Regular papers and discussion papers will compete on two different lists
of acceptance.

Submissions can be made in EasyChair:

      https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sebd2021

Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality.
All accepted works will be included in the proceedings, with Discussion
Papers clearly marked as such. After acceptance, authors are required to
re-submit the final PDF. No different format is allowed. 

All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference and 
at least one author is required to register to the conference.


JOINT SEMINAR ON REMINISCENCE OF TIDB 1981

Forty years ago, on September 13-19 of 1981, Gran Hotel San Michele hosted the progenitor of ICDT: the Advanced Seminar on Theoretical Issues in Databases (TIDB), organized by Giorgio Ausiello, François Bancilhon, Domenico Sacca' and Nicolas Spyratos.
TIDB program included invited talks by outstanding scientists such as: Catriel Beeri, Ron Fagin, Seymour Ginsburg, Bob Kowalski, Witold Lipski, John Mylopoulos,  Jean-Marie Nicolas, Christos Papadimitriou, Jan Paredaens, Yehoshua Sagiv, Mihalis Yannakakis, Carlo Zaniolo. Besides the main lectures, short talks were also given by a young (at that time) Italian scientist Carlo Batini and two promising postdocs Maurizio Lenzerini and Paolo Atzeni.
In the report about TIDB written for the EATCS Bulletin, Christos Papadimitriou said: “There was an extensive mosaic of topics covered, reflecting the state of wild fermentation in which database theory appears to be. Relational theory, concurrency control, and logic in databases were three areas that were represented quite heavily in the list of speakers. Voices of the null value problem, schema design theory, the operational approach, conceptual modeling, and software engineering issues, were also heard”.
A joint seminar on "Reminiscence of TIDB 1981" will be held on October 15-16, next to SEBD 2021. The seminar will be organized in mixed online/in-presence sessions of invited lectures.


FURTHER INFORMATION

While we are looking forward to welcoming you in Pizzo Calabro, the pandemic could make it difficult or impossible for some, if not all, participants to travel to Italy. For this reason, we commit to allowing authors of accepted papers to present virtually, even in the case where SEBD 2021 will be a hybrid event.


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission:  April 19, 2021, before 23:59 UTC
Paper submission:  April 23, 2021, before 23:59 UTC
Notification of acceptance:  May 21, 2021
Camera-ready submission:  May 28, 2021
Author registration:  May 31, 2021


ORGANIZATION

General Chairs:
- Sergio Greco (Università della Calabria)
- Elio Masciari (Università Federico II di Napoli)

Program Chairs:
- Maurizio Lenzerini (Sapienza Università di Roma)
- Andrea Tagarelli (Università della Calabria)

Local Chair:
- Antonella Guzzo (Università della Calabria)