Sunday June 22, 2025

NOVAS Workshop

at SIGMOD 2025 in Berlin, Germany

NOVAS stands for Novel Optimizations for Visionary AI Systems.

We want to bridge the gap between "data management'' and "generative AI'' research.

We are calling for work or early ideas which may be deemed innovative, controversial, or disruptive if considered from the perspective of more established research areas.

Topics of particular interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

DB-inspired techniques to optimize caching, indexing, or inference in generative ML architectures.
Multi-modal embeddings and semantic question-answering over multiple modalities.
Declarative systems to compose AI agents and multi-agent systems for data processing.
Scheduling and sharing of large workloads for LLMs.
LLM-informed database design, configuration, and tuning.
Strategies to deploy LLM architectures for data processing, e.g., RAG, chain-of-thought reasoning.
Vector databases for embeddings in RAG systems.
Benchmarks for data processing tasks using LLMs.
Integration of LLMs with transactional/real-time analytics databases.
Techniques for efficiently serving instances of transformer models.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline: 28 March 2025 Extended: 7 April 2025
Author notification: 20 April 2025 28 April 2025
Camera-ready version: 17 May 2025
Workshop day: 22 June 2025

All deadlines are 11:59PM PST.

Submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/SIGMOD/2025/Workshop/NOVAS

Organizing Committee

Gerardo Vitagliano

Postdoctoral Associate, MIT

Chunwei Liu

Postdoctoral Associate, MIT

Lei Cao

Assistant Professor, University of Arizona

Huan Sun

Associate Professor, OSU

Paolo Papotti

Associate Professor, EURECOM

For any questions regarding the workshop please contact us at chairs@novasworkshop.org

SUBMISSIONS:

The workshop will accept regular and short papers. We welcome short papers that present exciting work in progress, dataset contributions, or visionary/outrageous ideas.The page limit for regular papers is 6 pages, and for short papers is 4 pages, in both cases with unlimited references.All papers have to be submitted in single anonymous format, and must be prepared in accordance with the ACM template available here. All submissions to the workshop must adhere to the diversity and inclusion writing guidelines from ACM.The following are the page limits (excluding references):

Regular papers: 6 pages
Short papers: 4 pages

All submissions (in PDF format) should be sent to OpenReview.

Submission page: https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/SIGMOD/2025/Workshop/NOVAS

REVIEWING PROCESS:

Submissions will be single anonymous: authors cannot see reviewer names, but reviewers can see author names. We use OpenReview to host papers and the reviewing process will be public. This means that reviewers' comments that can be seen by all, although the reviewers' identity will remain anonymous.

Authors can revise their paper as many times as needed up to the final paper submission deadline. Changes to the paper will not be allowed while the paper is being reviewed.

Conflicts of Interests (COIs) are handled using the same rules of SIGMOD 2025.

The use of LLMs is allowed as a general-purpose assist tool. Authors and reviewers should understand that they take full responsibility for the contents written under their name, including content generated by LLMs that could be construed as plagiarism or scientific misconduct (e.g., fabrication of facts). LLMs are not eligible for authorship.

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