[DBWorld] ICDE 22 CFP

IEEE ICDE 2022 CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS
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The 38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2022) will be hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during the week of May 9-12, 2022. 

Highlights for ICDE 2022: 
-ICDE 2022 will include a Review Quality phase where all reviews will go through an improvement process  focusing on constructive feedback.  
-Clear accepts and Rejects will be notified early, midway through the review process.
-Authors will be invited to provide author feedback both in terms of technical remarks in the reviews and with respect to the quality of the reviews.
-Paper format will change to 12 pages + unlimited space for references.

Topics of interest
We invite the submission of original research contributions in the following areas.  
Benchmarking, Performance Modeling, and Tuning
Crowdsourcing
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Data Models, Semantics, Query languages
Data Stream Systems and Sensor Networks
Data Visualization and Interactive Data Exploration
Database Security, Privacy, and Trust
Database technology for machine learning
Distributed, Parallel and P2P Data Management
Graphs, Networks, and Semistructured Data
Information Integration and Data Quality (Data Provenance, cleaning, curation; Data Integration,  Metadata Management, and Interoperability)
Machine Learning for Database Systems
Modern Hardware and In-Memory Database Systems
Query Processing, Indexing, and Optimization
Spatial Databases and Temporal Databases
Text, Semi-Structured Data, IR, Image and Multimedia databases
Uncertain, Probabilistic and Approximate Databases
Very large data science applications/pipelines 
Workflows, Scientific Data Management
 
We also welcome any original contributions that may cross the boundaries among areas or point in other novel directions of interest to the database research community.

IMPORTANT DATES
IEEE ICDE 2022 will have two rounds of research paper submissions with each round involving two rounds of reviewing to allow for revisions. Notifications dates are approximate.

All deadlines are 11:59PM PST.
 
First Round:
Submission due: July 21, 2021 (Wednesday)
Early notification phase: August 25
Rebuttal due:  August 30, 2021 (Monday) 
Notification to authors (Accept/Revise/Reject): September 22, 2021 (Wednesday)
Revisions due: October 27, 2021 (Wednesday)
Notification to authors (Accept/Reject): November 10, 2021 (Wednesday)
Camera-ready copy due: December 2, 2021 (Wednesday)

Second Round:
Submission due: November 17, 2021 (Wednesday)
Reviews due: December 15, 2021 (Wednesday)
Early notification phase: December 22
Rebuttal due:  January 7, 2022 (Friday)
Notification to authors (Accept/Revise/Reject): January 26, 2022 (Wednesday)
Revisions due: March 2, 2022 (Wednesday)
Notification to authors (Accept/Reject): March 16, 2022 (Wednesday)
Camera-ready copy due: March  30, 2022 (Wednesday)

Submission website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICDE2022
The submission site will be open for submissions two weeks before the deadline. 

 
NOTES ON RESEARCH PAPERS
Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with the IEEE format available at
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
 
Research papers must not exceed 12 pages for the main text plus an unlimited number of pages for the bibliography. No appendix is allowed. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered. 

A paper submitted to IEEE ICDE 2022 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the entire time it is considered for ICDE 2022, and it must be substantially different from any previously published work. Submissions will be reviewed in a single-blind manner.
 
All accepted papers will be presented as posters at ICDE 2022, but the PC may decide to select only a subset of the accepted papers for a "conventional" presentation slot during the conference. However, all accepted papers will be treated equally in the conference proceedings, which are the persistent, archival record of the conference.
 
The best papers (as judged by the ICDE 2022 PC) will be selected for extended versions to be published in the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if none of the authors attends the conference to present their paper.
 
Submissions that are rejected in the first round of IEEE ICDE 2022 research track are not eligible for re-submission to the second round.

REVIEWING PROCESS
Review Quality: Once the reviews are complete, the area chairs will “review the reviews” and work with reviewers to improve the feedback to the authors as much as possible focusing on providing constructive feedback.

Early notifications: Papers that are a clear accept or reject will receive early notification. 
Author Feedback: Then the authors will have a few days to read the reviews and submit an optional short rebuttal. The purpose of the rebuttal is to clarify misunderstandings and factual errors through pointers to specific parts in the submitted paper. The authors will also be invited to submit feedback on specifics metrics for the quality of the reviews (this feedback will only be visible to the area chairs and PC chairs).

Revisions: Papers will be invited to submit a revised version of their paper if the PC believes the papers can reasonably improve within the available time-frame. Authors will have one and a half months to prepare their revision. The revision process is intended to be a constructive partnership between reviewers and authors. To this end, reviewers will be instructed to request revisions only in constructive scenarios with specific requests. 

Number of reviews: All papers will receive at least three reviews. 

Number of accepted papers: The number of accepted research papers will not be capped. We will accept all papers meeting the high quality and innovation standards of ICDE.

INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY IN WRITING
We value Diversity and Inclusion in our community and professions. Both are important in our writing as well. Be mindful in your writing of not using language or examples that further the marginalization, stereotyping, or erasure of any group of people, especially historically marginalized and/or under-represented groups (URGs) in computing. Also be vigilant and guard against unintentionally exclusionary examples. Reviewers will be empowered to monitor and demand changes if such issues arise. Going further, also consider actively raising the representation of URGs in your writing. Diversity of representation in writing is a simple but visible avenue to celebrate and ultimately help improve our community’s diversity.

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
During submission of a research paper, the submission site will request information about Conflicts of Interest (COI) of the paper's authors with program committee (PC) members. It is the full responsibility of all authors of a paper to identify all (and only) PC members with potential COIs as per the definition provided on the submission site. Papers with incorrect or incomplete COI information as of the submission closing time are subject to immediate rejection.
 
Definition of Conflict of Interest (COI):
A paper author has a COI with a PC member when and only when one or more of the following conditions hold:
 
The PC member is a co-author of the paper.
The PC member has been a co-worker in the same company or university within the past two years.
The PC member has been a collaborator within the past two years.
The PC member is or was the author's primary thesis advisor, no matter how long ago.
The author is or was the PC member's primary thesis advisor, no matter how long ago.
The PC member is a relative or close personal friend of the author.

Authors needs to submit their complete set of COIs for the paper to be considered for review. 

PC Chairs:
Gao Cong, Nanyang Technological University
Stratos Idreos, Harvard University   
Feifei Li, University of Utah  
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