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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.

We invite papers reporting original research in all aspects of Data Science and Databases. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Transaction processing, query processing, indexing and storage, distributed data platforms, key-value stores, big data systems, data cleansing, data analytics, data integration, benchmarking, tuning and testing.
Classification and regression, parallel and distributed learning, semi- and unsupervised learning, matrix and tensor methods, graph mining, reinforcement learning, feature engineering, deep learning, Bayesian methods, time series analysis, optimization, graphical models, text analytics and NLP, information retrieval, knowledge representation, planning and reasoning.
Social network analysis, recommender systems, online advertising, bioinformatics, computational neuroscience, systems biology, multimedia processing, crowdsourcing, education, agriculture, healthcare, robotics and autonomous systems,analytics on sensor networks and IoT, computer vision, surveillance/monitoring and anomaly detection in networked systems, urban computing, and technology for emerging markets. .
Authors of accepted papers will get an opportunity to showcase their work either as an oral presentation or as a poster

Submission date
22nd Aug, 2018
15th Aug, 2018

Notification date
23rd Oct, 2018
15th Oct, 2018

Camera ready:
15th Dec, 2018
1st Nov, 2018

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. 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.
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.
All papers are to be submitted using Easy Chair at CODS-COMAD 2019 Easy Chair


CoDS-COMAD 2019 will include an Industrial Track session which will cover the application of recent research advances to problems of real-world interest. The industry track of the conference 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.

Application domains of interest include, but are not limited to, education, transportation, energy, real-estate, manufacturing, finance, retail, healthcare, e-commerce, digital marketing, telecommunications, social media and computational advertising. Submissions are invited on work that highlight new challenges arising from the deployment of Data Science and Database technologies.

Submitted papers should present the problem, its significance to the application domain, design choices made towards the solution, the deployment challenges, and the lessons learned. Submissions to the general Research Track will be given the option of being considered as an Industry Track candidate. At least one of the authors needs to have a non-academic affiliation. Authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to present their work in an oral session. Authors are encouraged to contact the track chairs (Nanda Kambhatla and Vishwa Vinay) if they need clarification regarding the fit of their work to the track.

The submissions are limited to a total of 6 pages, plus up to 1 additional page for references. The papers should be formatted in the standard ACM style available at the ACM Master Article Template. The submissions should be made via Easychair. The deadline for submissions is 15th August 2018, and the notificaations will be sent out by 15th November 2018.

All papers are to be submitted using Easy Chair at CODS-COMAD 2019 Easy Chair

Submission date
22nd Aug, 2018
15th Aug, 2018

Notification date
23rd Oct, 2018
15th Oct, 2018

Camera ready:
15th Dec, 2018
1st Nov, 2018

Nanda Kambhatla, Symphony AI
Vishwa Vinay, Adobe Research


×Download the PDF for the Demo CFP Here .

The demo track provides a forum to researchers, developers, and technologists to present first-hand experience of software systems, prototypes, conceptual designs, libraries, etc., in an interactive setting.

The prospective submissions would have a novel solution to a problem exhibited either through prototypes or operational systems. Demos are invited for all domains of innovations: Data, Algorithms, and Applications. The entries for submission should consist of a short paper with a maximum of four pages, including references. The demonstration session provides a forum to researchers and developers to display their software systems, prototypes, conceptual designs, libraries, etc., in an interactive setting. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Data Science
- Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence
- Text analytics and NLP
- Computer Vision
- Information Retrieval
- Social Network Analysis
- Recommender Systems
- Online Advertising
- Psycholinguistics and Social Sciences
- Computational Neuroscience
- Systems Biology
- Multimedia processing
- Crowdsourcing
- Education
- Healthcare
- Robotics
- Technology for Emerging Markets
- Bioinformatics
- Digital Marketing

The submission must describe the technical innovation that has produced the demonstrated system. It must also include the ​ specifications, literature references, and optionally a URL to screenshots or an online version. The submissions will be carefully reviewed by the Demonstration Program Committee and be selected based on various factors such as novelty, relevance to CODS-COMAD, potential impact, technical challenges being addressed, and practical applications

Best Demo: The most innovative and novel demos will receive awards (details to be announced soon)

The submissions should not exceed 4 pages including references and should be formatted in the standard ACM style available at the​ ACM Master Article Template​ . The submissions should be made via ​ Easychair. The submission deadline is October 1st, 2018 and the notifications will be sent out by November 1st, 2018. Please contact ​ Dr. Niyati Chhaya​ or ​ Dr. Parth Gupta​ for further queries.

The publication of the demo in the proceedings in optional. Therefore, even if an author intends to publish their work somewhere else, they can demo their work in this session and opt out of the proceedings. Students will receive generous funding for attending the conference to showcase their demos.

All papers are to be submitted using Easy Chair at CODS-COMAD 2019 Easy Chair

Submission date
8th Oct, 2018
1st Oct, 2018

Notification date
12th Nov, 2018
5th Nov, 2018

Camera ready:
15th Dec, 2018
15th Nov, 2018

Note: All deadlines are calculated at 11:59pm Anywhere on Earth (UTC -12h). Niyati Chhaya, Adobe Research
Parth Gupta, Amazon
  • Amitava Das, IIIT Sri City
  • Balaji Vasan Srinivasan , Adobe Research
  • Danish Contractor, IBM
  • Lavanya Sita Tekumalla, IISc Bangalore
  • Manoj Chinnakotla , Microsoft
  • Manjira Sinha, Accenture
  • Tanmoy Chakraborty, IIIT Delhi
  • Vasudeva Varma, IIIT Hyderabad
  • Varish Mulwad, GE Research
  • Vinayak Puranik, Amazon
  • Rishiraj Saha Roy, MPI
  • Abhinav Kumar, IIT Hyderabad

For any queries, please write to the Demo Chairs
- Niyati Chhaya, Adobe Research (nchhaya [at] adobe.com)
- Parth Gupta, Amazon (eparthgupta [at] gmail.com)


The Young Researchers’ Symposium at CODS-COMAD 2019 invites submissions from students and postdoctoral fellows. This is a unique opportunity for young researchers to have fruitful peer-to-peer discussions and to get feedback from leading senior researchers about their current research work, including developing better understanding of the problems at hand, overarching principles and the limitations of current methods, and presenting new techniques and algorithm.
Submissions to the Young Researchers’ Symposium (YRS) are invited on all topics of interest to the CODS-COMAD 2019 conference, as stated here. Submissions to the YRS should satisfy the following criteria:

  • - The first author of any submission should be a full-time undergraduate / postgraduate / PhD student, or a Postdoctoral researcher having completed his / her PhD not earlier than 2016, affiliated with any academic institution.
  • - The submission should describe your current research including motivation, key related works, methodology, initial results, future plans and specific issues that you intend to discuss at the symposium.
  • - We welcome many 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).

Submissions will be evaluated based on clarity of the research proposal, significance of the research work, and relevance to the data science community.

Authors of accepted papers will get a chance to present their work both as a poster and a short oral presentation at the symposium. The proceedings will be published in ACM Digital Library. Additionally, authors of accepted papers will have the choice to opt their paper out of the conference proceedings.

There will be one Best Paper award, to be awarded to the best accepted paper at the YRS. Providing student travel grants to support the participation of authors of accepted papers is under consideration.

Following the plagiarism policy of the CODS-COMAD conference, all submitted papers will be checked for plagiarism, and plagiarised papers will be rejected without review. The submission should not exceed four pages (including all images, tables and references) using ACM "sigconf" proceedings template available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. The submission should mention name and affiliation of all author(s), status of first author (Undergraduate / Postgraduate / Doctoral / Postdoctoral), and contact email address. All submissions must be in English and in PDF format.
All papers are to be submitted using Easy Chair at CODS-COMAD 2019 Easy Chair

Submission date
8th Oct, 2018
1st Oct, 2018

Notification date
5th Nov, 2018
1st Nov, 2018

Camera ready:
15th Dec, 2018
15th Nov, 2018

Note: All deadlines are calculated at 11:59pm Anywhere on Earth (UTC -12h). Sahely Bhadra, Department of CSE, IIT Palakkad
Saptarshi Ghosh, Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur
  • Aadirupa Saha, IISc Bangalore, India
  • Abhijnan Chakraborty, MPI-SWS, Germany
  • Abir De, MPI for Software Systems, Germany
  • Achintya Kundu, IISc Bangalore, India
  • Adway Mitra, IIT Bhubaneswar, India
  • Ansuman Banerjee, ISI Kolkata, India
  • Arindam Pal, TCS Research, India
  • Ashish Rakeshkumarmittal, IBM Research AI, India
  • Bhargava Jagarlapudi, IISc Bangalore, India
  • Chandrashekar Lakshmi Narayanan, IIT Palakkad, India
  • Gautham Tholpadi, Peritus.ai, India
  • J. SakethaNath, IIT Hyderabad, India
  • Joydeep Chandra, IIT Patna, India
  • Kripabandhu Ghosh, IIT Kanpur, India
  • Koustav Rudra , Northwestern University, USA
  • Lavanya Sita Tekumalla, Entrepreneur First, India
  • Mainack Mondal, University of Chicago, USA
  • Malay Bhattacharyya, ISI Kolkata, India
  • Mayank Singh, IIT Gandhinagar, India
  • Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, IIT Hyderabad, India
  • Mrinal Kanti Das, IIT Palakkad, India
  • Naresh Manwani, IIIT Hyderabad, India
  • Parantapa Bhattacharya, Virginia Tech, USA
  • Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur, India
  • Plaban Kumar Bhowmick, IIT Kharagpur, India
  • Pradumn Pandey, IIT Kharagpur, India
  • Raman Sankaran, IISc Bangalore, India
  • Rijurekha Sen, IIT Delhi, India
  • Sandipan Sikdar, RWTH Aachen, Germany
  • Sudeepa Roy, Duke University, USA
  • Suman Kalyan Maiti, Northwestern University, USA
  • Syamantak Das, IIIT Delhi, India

For any queries, please write to the Young Researchers' Symposium Chairs
- Sahely Bhadra, IIT Palakkad (sahely [at] iitpkd.ac.in)
- Saptarshi Ghosh, IIT Kharagpur (saptarshi [at] cse.iitkgp.ac.in)