About us

The Principles of Database Systems (PODS) symposium series, held in conjunction with the SIGMOD conference series, provides a premier annual forum for the communication of new advances in the theoretical foundations of data management, traditional or nontraditional. The symposium aims to provide a solid scientific basis for methods, techniques, and solutions for the data management challenges that continually arise in our data-driven society. It seeks scientific articles that present principled contributions to modeling, application, and system building in the context of data management, establishing theoretical results, developing new concepts, providing experimental work, or analyzing important industry artifacts.

Important Dates

Tue, Jun 3, 2025
First Submission Cycle Abstract deadline
Tue, Jun 10, 2025
First Submission Cycle Full paper submission deadline
Tue, Jul 29, 2025
First Submission Cycle Rebuttal
Mon, Aug 11, 2025
First Submission Cycle Initial notification
Mon, Aug 25, 2025
First Submission Cycle Revision submission
Mon, Sep 1, 2025
First Submission Cycle Final notification
Wed, Dec 3, 2025
Second Submission Cycle Abstract deadline
Wed, Dec 10, 2025
Second Submission Cycle Full paper submission deadline
Mon, Jan 26, 2026
Second Submission Cycle Rebuttal
Sun, Feb 8, 2026
Second Submission Cycle Initial notification
Sun, Feb 22, 2026
Second Submission Cycle Revision submission
Sun, Mar 1, 2026
Second Submission Cycle Final notification

Call For Paper

Machine learning
Data Mining
Data Visualization
Interoperability
Access control
Query Languages
Security
Semi-structured data
Privacy
Database processing
Query evaluation
Query optimization
Schema management
Distributed data processing
Approximate data processing
Database design
Data models
Schemas
Constraints
Database access
Data structures
Access methods
Concurrency
Transactions
Data quality
Data cleaning
Data discovery
Data exploration
Data consistency
Data analysis
Information extraction
Data streams
Uncertainty
Incompleteness
Inconsistency
Ontological query answering
Incomplete data
Inconsistent data
Probabilistic data
Mappings and views
Data integration
Data exchange
Ontology-based data access
Responsible data management
Verification
Ethical aspects of data management
Human-database interaction
Data summarization
Explanation for database queries
Connections between database principles and other disciplines

PODS seeks scientific articles presenting principled contributions to data management. Topics include but are not limited to query processing, database design, data quality, data analysis, uncertainty, interoperability, and responsible data management. Submissions must use the ACM 'acmsmall' stylesheet and be limited to 15 pages (excluding references). The symposium uses a lightweight double-anonymous reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published in PACMMOD and presented at the SIGMOD/PODS conference.