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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Call for Regular, Short, Demo Papers - International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management (SSDBM) 2025</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When: June 23rd to 25th, 2025</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Where: The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Website: <a href="https://ssdbm.org/2025" title="https://ssdbm.org/2025">https://ssdbm.org/2025</a> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The <b>International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management 2025</b> aims to bring together domain experts, data management researchers, practitioners, and developers to present and exchange the latest research findings on concepts,
tools, and techniques for scalable scientific data management. While previous editions of SSDBM primarily focused on scientific statistical databases, the 37th edition in 2025 will broaden its scope to encompass all areas of scalable and scientific data management.
Reflecting this expanded focus, the conference has been renamed from the <i>International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management</i> to the <b><i>International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management</i></b>, while retaining
the well-known acronym, SSDBM.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The new SSDBM conference (<a href="https://ssdbm.org/2025/" title="https://ssdbm.org/2025/">https://ssdbm.org/2025</a>) will serve as a premier forum for original research contributions, as well as practical system design, implementation,
and evaluation of the latest advances in scalable and scientific data management. The program typically features a single-track format to foster active discussion and includes invited talks, panel sessions, and demonstrations of research prototypes and industrial
systems.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SSDBM 2025 will be hosted by The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, from June 23 to June 25, 2025. Continuing the tradition of past SSDBM meetings, SSDBM 2025 will offer a stimulating environment designed to foster discussion, collaboration,
and the exchange of ideas on all aspects of scientific and statistical data management research, as well as high-performance data analysis tools and techniques for distributed datasets. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Proceedings of SSDBM 2025 are expected to be published by Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS) and will appear in the ACM Digital Library and many indexing providers. [Pending ACM
ICPS Acceptance]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Topics of Interest</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, the following, as they relate to scientific data management:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Scientific Applications, Workflows and Reproducibility</b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">Design, implementation, optimization, and reproducibility of scientific workflows</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">Platforms and tools for reproducible data science and scientific collaboration</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">Application case studies (e.g., astrophysics, climate, energy, sustainability, biomedicine)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">Open data standards and cross-platform compatibility for scientific data</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">Cloud computing issues in large-scale data management</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">System architectures for scientific data</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">HPC applications and scalability challenges in data-intensive scientific fields</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">Data ethics, bias in scientific data handling, and privacy in large-scale studies</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">Handling data errors, inconsistencies, and outliers in scientific datasets</li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Data Modeling, Management, and Integration</b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Data lifecycle and retention management, provenance data management</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Data integration</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Data storage and management architectures (e.g., distributed file systems, data lakes, high-performance storage)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Protocols and frameworks for cross-domain data sharing and exchange</li></ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l6 level1 lfo3">Modeling of scientific data</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l6 level1 lfo3">Schema evolution</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l6 level1 lfo3">Information retrieval and text mining</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l6 level1 lfo3">Indexing and querying scientific data, including spatial, temporal, and streaming data</li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Big Data Processing and Performance Aspects</b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l9 level1 lfo4">Big data processing frameworks for scientific data</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l9 level1 lfo4">Scalable architectures and distributed systems for managing large-scale datasets</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l9 level1 lfo4">Optimization techniques for high-efficiency data storage and retrieval</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l9 level1 lfo4">Innovations in data compression and encoding for enhanced performance</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l9 level1 lfo4">Efficient computational techniques for statistical data analysis and modeling</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l9 level1 lfo4">Methods for ensuring data quality, integrity, and consistency in big data environments</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l9 level1 lfo4">Smart city applications and services leveraging high-performance data solutions</li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Visualization</b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">Database support of machine learning and AI</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">Data management for AI applications</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">Machine learning and AI for scientific data management</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">Visualization and exploration of large datasets</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">Security and privacy in scientific data management</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">Data storage and compression techniques for machine learning</li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Streaming and Real-Time Data Processing</b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6">Stream data representation and management</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6">Stream data analysis (e.g., summarization, statistical analysis, pattern matching, pattern discovery, learning, and prediction)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6">Dataflow and parallel processing for complex data workflows</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6">Distributed systems and devices</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6">Internet of Things (IoT) data analytics</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6">Location-aware recommender systems</li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Regular Paper Submissions</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts. </p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l10 level1 lfo7">Regular Research Papers are up to 12 pages (including references and appendices). Papers should be descriptions of complete technical work. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l10 level1 lfo7">All submissions should be formatted using the ACM format available at <a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template" title="https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template">https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template</a> by
selecting the generic “sigconf” sample. For submissions prepared in LaTex, authors are recommended to use \documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart} configuration. </li></ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l5 level1 lfo8">SSDBM 2025 is single-blind reviewed; authors must include their names and affiliations on the first page. All authors should respect ACM Policy on Authorship and use of generative AI tools and technologies
(details on the policy are available at <a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/new-acm-policy-on-authorship" title="https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/new-acm-policy-on-authorship">https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/new-acm-policy-on-authorship</a>). </li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">Submission site: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssdbm2025" title="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssdbm2025">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssdbm2025</a> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The program committee may decide to accept some papers as short papers or posters. Regular papers will be given a presentation slot in the conference, while short papers will be given a short presentation slot in the conference. Regular
papers (up to 12 pages including references) and Short papers (up to 6 pages including references) will be included as part of the conference proceedings. Posters with a single page abstract and electronic poster presentation will be published on the conference
website, without proceedings. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Important Dates</b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l8 level1 lfo9"><b><i>Abstract submission:</i> Feb 16th, 2025, 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)</b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l8 level1 lfo9"><b><i>Submission deadline:</i> Feb 23rd, 2025 at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)</b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l8 level1 lfo9"><b><i>Notification:</i> April 4th, 2025</b></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Short papers</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Short papers are up to 6 pages (including references and appendices). Short papers should describe interesting, innovative ideas, which nevertheless require more work to mature, or are vision papers. Short papers will be given a short presentation
slot in the conference and presented in the form of posters. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Demo papers</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Demo papers are up to 6 pages (including references and appendices). Demo paper proposals should provide the motivation for the demonstrated concepts, the information about the technology and the system to be demonstrated (including a system
description, functionality and figures when applicable), and should state the significance of the contribution. Selection criteria for the demonstration proposals evaluation include: the novelty, the technical advances and challenges, and the overall practical
attractiveness of the demonstrated system. Demo papers will be given a short presentation slot in the conference and presented in the form of posters. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Submission Guidelines for Short & Demo papers</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts. </p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l7 level1 lfo10">Short and Demo Papers are up to 6 pages (including references and appendices). Papers should be descriptions of complete technical work. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l7 level1 lfo10">All submissions should be formatted using the ACM format available at <a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template" title="https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template">https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template</a> by
selecting the generic “sigconf” sample. For submissions prepared in LaTex, authors are recommended to use \documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart} configuration. </li></ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level1 lfo11">SSDBM 2025 is single-blind reviewed; authors must include their names and affiliations on the first page. All authors should respect ACM Policy on Authorship and use of generative AI tools and technologies
(details on the policy are available at <a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/new-acm-policy-on-authorship" title="https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/new-acm-policy-on-authorship">https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/new-acm-policy-on-authorship</a>). </li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">Important dates:</p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l11 level1 lfo12"><b><i> Submission deadline: March 11th, 2025 at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)</i></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l11 level1 lfo12"><b><i> Notification: April 14th, 2025</i></b></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Submission site: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssdbm2025" title="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssdbm2025">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssdbm2025</a> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Short & Demo papers will be given a presentation slot in the conference. Short & Demo papers (up to 6 pages including references) will be given an entry in the conference proceedings.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If your paper is selected, at least one author must register for the Technical Program in order to attend the conference and present the paper. Each author registration can be applied to only one accepted submission. For an accepted paper
to be included in the proceedings, the author has to present the paper at the conference in person. Otherwise, the paper will be removed from the proceedings. </p>
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