IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Engineering (ICDSE 2025): Call for Contributions

ICDE 2025, the 41st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, will take place in Hong Kong SAR, China, from May 19 – 23, 2025. ICDE is a leading forum for researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and exchange techniques, tools, and experiences in data and information engineering.

Calls for Contributions

• Call for Research Paper
• Call for Industry and Application Papers
• Call for Demonstrations
• Call for Workshop Proposal
• Call for Tutorials
• Call for TKDE Poster
• Call for PhD Symposium Submissions
• Call for Data Engineering Future Technologies

Call for Research Papers

Topics of Interest

We invite original research contributions in the following areas as they relate to data management:

• AI for Database Systems and Database Systems for AI
• Benchmarking, Performance Modeling, Tuning, and Testing
• Cloud Data Management
• Crowdsourcing and Data Management
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery from a Data Management Perspective (where scalability and efficiency are prominent aspects of the contribution)
• Data Models, Semantics, Query languages
• Data Stream Systems and Edge Computing
• Very Large Data Visualization and Interactive Data Exploration
• Database Security and Privacy
• Distributed Ledgers and Blockchains
• Distributed, Parallel and P2P Data Management
• Explainability, Fairness, and Trust in Data Systems and Analysis
• Graphs, Networks, and Semi-structured Data Management
• Information Integration and Data Quality
• IoT Data Management
• Modern Hardware and In-Memory Database Systems
• Query Processing, Indexing, and Optimization
• Transaction Management
• Spatial Databases and Temporal Databases
• Text, Semi-Structured Data Management, Multimedia Databases
• Information Retrieval from a Data Management Perspective (where scalability and efficiency are prominent aspects of the contribution)
• 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

ICDE 2025 will have two rounds of research paper submissions.

All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE.

First Round:

• Submission due: August 2, 2024
• Notification for authors (Accept/Revise/Reject): September 24, 2024
• Revision due: October 29, 2024
• Notification to authors (Accept/Reject): November 26, 2024
• Camera-ready copy due: December 10, 2024

Second Round:

• Submission due: November 25, 2024
• Notification for Authors (Accept/Revise/Reject): January 21, 2025
• Revision Due: February 25, 2025
• Notification to authors (Accept/Reject): March 25, 2025
• Camera-ready copy due: April 8, 2025

Submission Guidelines

• Paper should be submitted using the Conference Management Tool: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICDE2025.
• 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, not including references. No appendix is allowed.
• Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered.
• A paper submitted to ICDE 2025 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the entire time it is considered for ICDE 2025, and it must be substantially different from any previously published work.
• A paper submitted to ICDE 2025 must present original work not described in any prior publication that is more than 4 double-column pages in length.
• Any author of ICDE 2025 should not be a co-author of more than 10 submitted research papers across the two submission rounds.
• Submissions will be reviewed in a single-blind manner.
• Submissions that are rejected in the first round of the IEEE ICDE 2025 research track are not eligible for re-submission to the second round.
• The best papers (as judged by the ICDE 2025 PC) will be selected for submission as an extended version to be published in the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).

Desk Rejection Policy

ICDE research track submissions that don’t meet the following requirements may be rejected without review:

• Submissions must follow the aforementioned guidelines and length requirements specified in the ICDE 2025 Call for Papers.
• Submissions must be in scope of ICDE 2025, aligning with at least one of the topic areas and situating itself within the state of the art of current and past research in the database community.
• Authors must correctly declare all conflicts of interest (COI) with members of the program committee.

Conflict of Interest (COI) Declaration

• Each author of a submission must create a CMT profile and complete it with domain and individual conflicts.
• If a CMT profile is missing for at least one author of a submission, the paper will be desk rejected.
• Authors can mark their conflicts by clicking on their name (upper right-hand side on CMT) and selecting “Domain Conflicts” and “Individual Conflicts”.
• A searchable spreadsheet of COIs is available for authors' convenience.

Reviewing Process

• Papers will be stringently reviewed with at least 3 reviews per paper.
• Revisions: Papers may be invited for revision. Authors will have five weeks to prepare their revisions. The revision process is intended to be a constructive interaction between reviewers and authors.

Diversity and Inclusion

We value Diversity and Inclusion in our community and profession. Be mindful in your writing of not using language or examples that further the marginalization, stereotyping, or erasure of any group of people. Reviewers will be empowered to monitor and demand changes if such issues arise.

Acceptance and Attendance

IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution (e.g., remove it from IEEE Xplore) after the conference if none of the authors attend the conference to present their paper.