We are pleased to announce the The ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Sciences and Management of Data (CoDS-COMAD) 2019 (6th ACM iKDD CoDS and 24th COMAD) to be held in Kolkata, India, on January 3-5, 2019. This conference continues to build on the long history of COMAD and CoDS conferences and will bring together the two related communities closer under a common umbrella for the second time.

Topics of Interest

We invite papers reporting original research in all aspects of Data Science and Databases. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Authors of accepted papers will get an opportunity to showcase their work either as an oral presentation or as a poster

Research Track - Important Dates

Industrial Track

The industry track aims to bring together leading industry and academia practitioners to share their insights, expertise and experiences related to deployments of solutions in industry and government that address real-world challenges and highlight new and important research directions. We invite original papers describing case studies involving applied research in areas such as, but not limited to, education, transportation, infrastructure monitoring, energy, real-estate, manufacturing, finance, retail, healthcare, e-commerce, telecommunications, social media, law, public safety, and computational advertising. Authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to present their work in an oral session.

Industrial Track - Important Dates

Link to Industrial Track CFP

Demonstration Track

The demo track provides a forum for researchers, developers, and technologists to present their first-hand experience of software systems, prototypes, conceptual designs, libraries, etc., in an interactive setting. We invite novel submissions that cover any aspect of innovation including Data, Algorithms, and Applications. The submissions should present a demonstrable solution to a problem of interest either in the form of a prototype or an operational system. Authors of accepted papers will have a chance to make a short oral presentation and also give a demo.

Demonstration Track - Important Dates

Link to Demonstration Track CFP

Young Researchers' Symposium

The Young Researchers' Symposium (YRS) provides an excellent opportunity for young researchers to present their ongoing research to a wide variety of experts and receive feedback and suggestions from them. Submissions to YRS are invited on all topics of interest to the CODS-COMAD 2019 conference. We welcome various kinds of papers, such as, but not limited to: novel research papers, work-in-progress papers, appraisal papers of existing methods and tools (e.g., lessons learned). The first author should be a full-time undergraduate / postgraduate/PhD student, or a Postdoctoral researcher having completed his / her PhD not earlier than 2016, affiliated with an academic institution. Authors of accepted papers will be given a chance to highlight their work in a short oral presentation followed by a poster.

Young Researchers' Symposium Track - Important Dates

Link to Young Researchers' Symposium

Archival and Non-archival

The proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
*Authors from Demo & Young Researchers’ Symposium will have the choice to opt their paper out of the conference proceedings. This will enable the paper presented at CoDS-COMAD to be re-submitted to a different venue in the future.

Submission Format

All submissions should be formatted in the standard ACM style available at: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. The length of the submission should not exceed the page limit mentioned below. Submissions not adhering to the page limit will be rejected without review.
All the submissions will be single blind. The authors should include their names and affiliations in the submission.

Dual Submission Policy

CoDS-COMAD does not allow dual submissions. All papers will be subjected to a plagiarism check before reviewing. Submissions violating this policy will be rejected immediately without review.