IEEE ICDE 2022 Call for Research Papers

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 Modelling, 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 Semi-Structured 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:

Progress: 100%

  • Submission due: July 21, 2021 (Wednesday)

  • Early notification phase: August 25, 2021 (Wednesday) changed to September 1, 2021 (Wednesday)

  • Rebuttal due: August 30, 2021 (Monday) changed to September 6, 2021 (Monday)

  • Notification for authors (Accept/Revise/Reject): September 22, 2021 (Wednesday) changed to September 29, 2021 (Wednesday)

  • Revision due: October 27, 2021 (Wednesday) changed to November 3, 2021 (Wednesday)

  • Notification to authors (Accept/Reject): November 10, 2021 (Wednesday) changed to November 17, 2021 (Wednesday)

  • Camera-ready copy due: December 2, 2021 (Thursday) changed to January 7, 2022 (Friday) January 21, 2022 (Friday)

Update on Research Paper Track

We have received 360 submissions in the first round for research papers and we are working on finalizing reviewer assignments now. Stay tune!

Second Round:

Progress: 100%
  • Submission due: November 17, 2021 (Wednesday) extended to November 19, 2021 (Friday) [Note: CMT was down before the original deadline]

  • Early notification phase: December 22, 2021 (Wednesday) extended to January 14, 2022 (Friday)

  • Rebuttal due: January 7, 2022 (Friday) extended to January 17, 2022 (Monday)

  • Notification for Authors (Accept/Revise/Reject): January 26, 2022 (Wednesday) extended to February 2, 2022 (Wednesday)

  • Revision Due: March 2, 2022 (Wednesday) extended to March 9, 2022 (Wednesday)

  • Notification to authors (Accept/Reject): March 16, 2022 (Wednesday) extended to March 23, 2022 (Wednesday)

  • Camera-ready copy due: March 30, 2022 (Wednesday)

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 2021 research track are not eligible for re-submission to the second round.

Reviewing Process

Step 1

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.

Step 1

Step 2

Early notifications

Papers that are a clear accept or reject will receive early notification.

Step 2

Step 3

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).

Step 3

Step 4

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.

Step 4

Notes

1) Number of reviews: All papers will receive at least three reviews.
2) 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.

Conflict 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

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.

Want to contribute? Let’s Start!

We are excited to see you at ICDE 2022