Key facts
Information about SEBD are available at http://sebd.org/
- History: A walk down memory lane (in Italian)
- The steering committee: Present and past members
- Previous editions: From 1993 to 2023, from Gizzeria to Galzignano Terme
SEBD 2023
The thirty-first edition of the Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD - Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati) is organized by the Intelligent Interactive Information Access Hub of the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua, and will take place in Galzignano Terme (Italy) from the 2nd of July to the 5th of July 2023.
The symposium is the major annual event of the Italian database research community at large (English is the official language of the conference). The symposium is thought of as a gathering forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in the academy and industry, who are interested in database systems and in all their broad range of applications.
SEBD 2023 is a single-track conference.
SEBD 2023 invites two kinds of contributions: full papers (up to 12 pages) and discussion papers (up to 8 pages).
Taste of Time Award
The call for nominations is open! Click here to nominate a paper
Nominations Due: 5 June 2023
The form asks for contact details of the nominator, plus the title and authors of the nominated paper and a statement explaining the motivation for the nomination.
Each nominator can nominate more than one paper, filling in the form once for each nominated paper. Similarly, the same paper can be nominated by more than one nominator. Nominators cannot belong to the same research group as nominated papers, which also excludes self-nominations.
The award
SEBD (Symposium on Advanced Database System) is the major annual event of the Italian database research community. It is thought of as a gathering forum to meet, discuss, and exchange experiences among all people from academia and industry who are interested in database systems and in all their broad range of applications.
SEBD 2022 marked the 30th edition, a remarkable achievement, representing a tangible trace of the scientific contributions of the Italian database community, its evolution over a long period of time, and its liveliness. To celebrate this achievement, SEBD 2022 introduced the “Taste of Time” Award (TTA) whose purpose is to recognize seminal contributions and to retrace the history of the Italian database community by selecting significant (AND TASTY 😁) papers from past editions of SEBD.
SEBD 2023 continues this brand new tradition and calls for nominations for the TTA 2023!
The ultimate goal of the TTA is to keep the tradition of the SEBD community alive, to contextualize the most important research lines and make sense of their evolution, and to inspire new generations of researchers by discussing how key challenges have been addressed, which ones are still open, and what can follow-up from them.
The SEBD Steering Committee will select papers based on the following impact criteria
- impact within (a subarea of) the database research community
- impact outside of the database research community
- impact on the non-research community
- impact outside of the database research community
Papers eligible for the TTA are either original research published at SEBD or extended abstracts of papers published in main venues for the database community. In both cases evidence about the impact of the paper (or related paper, in case of extended abstracts) has to be provided, e.g., follow-up works (papers, systems, …), new theories and models, social and/or industrial impact, citations, … The TTA will consider, each year, a scrolling window of 3 years, starting from the first SEBD 1993, from which to select papers for the TTA.
The SEBD community is very welcome to nominate papers deemed deserving of the TTA. Eligible papers for this round are those published in:
- 2nd SEBD 1994: Rimini, Italy (DBLP entry)
- 3rd SEBD 1995: Ravello, Italy (DBLP entry)
- 4th SEBD 1996: Pisa, Italy (DBLP entry)
- 3rd SEBD 1995: Ravello, Italy (DBLP entry)
Further information
For any questions and/or additional information, please contact Maristella Agosti
Important Dates
Regular and discussion papers
- Submission deadline:
7 April 2023 (AoE)14 April 2023 (AoE) - Notifications:
3 May 2023 (AoE)10 May 2023 (AoE) - Camera-ready:
1 June 2023 (AoE)8 June 2023 (AoE).
Doctoral Consortium
- Submission deadline:
31 March 2023 (AoE)14 April 2023 (AoE) - Notifications:
26 April 2023 (AoE)10 May 2023 (AoE) - Camera-ready:
1 June 2023 (AoE)8 June 2023 (AoE)
Early registration deadline 26 May 2023
Keynotes

Yannis Ioannidis
University of Athens; President of the ACM
Yannis Ioannidis (University of Athens, Greece)
User-Defined Functions in Relational Databases: Challenges and Promising Solutions based on YeSQL
Monday, 3 July 2023
Abstract
The diversity and complexity of modern data management applications have led to the extension of the relational paradigm with syntactic and semantic support for User-Defined Functions (UDFs). Although well-established in traditional DBMS settings, UDFs have become central in many application contexts as well, such as data science, data analytics, and edge computing. Still, a critical limitation of UDFs is the impedance mismatch between their evaluation and relational processing.
In this talk, I will first give an overview of the area and the technical challenges that UDF processing brings. I will then present YeSQL, an SQL extension with rich UDF support along with a pluggable architecture to easily integrate it with either server-based or embedded database engines. YeSQL currently supports Python UDFs fully integrated with relational queries as scalar, aggregator, or table functions. Key novel characteristics of YeSQL include easy implementation of complex algorithms and several performance enhancements, including tracing JIT compilation of Python UDFs, parallelism and fusion of UDFs, stateful UDFs, and seamless integration with a database engine. Experimental analysis showcases the usability and expressiveness of YeSQL and demonstrates that its techniques of minimizing context switching between the relational engine and the Python VM are very effective and achieve significant speedups of up to 68x in common, practical use cases compared to earlier approaches and alternative implementation choices.
Short Bio
Yannis Ioannidis (Ph.D., Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley; MSc, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University; Diploma, Electrical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens) is the President of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). He is a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens as well as an Associated Faculty at the “Athena” Research and Innovation Center, where he also served as the President and General Director for 10 years. His research interests include Database and Information Systems, Data Science, Data and Text Analytics, Data Infrastructures and Digital Repositories, Recommender Systems and Personalization, and Human-Computer Interaction, topics on which he has published over 170 articles in leading journals and conferences and also holds four patents. His work is often inspired by and applied to data management and analysis problems that arise in industrial environments or in the context of other scientific fields (Social Sciences and Humanities, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences) and the Arts. He has been the coordinator and legal entity head of OpenAIRE, which implements the European policies on open access to research publications and data. He is the software director of the European Human Brain Project flagship initiative, the coordinator of the EOSC Future strategic project, which implements the core elements of the European Open Science Cloud, and a coordinator or partner in tens of other European and national research and innovation projects. He has also led or is currently leading the creation of new international or spin-off companies. He is an ACM and IEEE Fellow, a member of Academia Europaea, and a recipient of several research and teaching awards. He is currently the Greek delegate to the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) and a co-chair of the Global Climate Hub of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

Julia Stoyanovich
New York University
Julia Stoyanovich (New York University, USA)
Responsible Data Management
Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Abstract
Incorporating ethics and legal compliance into data-driven algorithmic systems has been attracting significant attention from the computing research community, most notably under the umbrella of fair and interpretable machine learning. Yet, much of this work has been limited to the "last mile" of data analysis, disregarding both the data lifecycle, and the lifecycle of a system's design, development, and use. In my talk, I will argue that the decisions we make during data collection and preparation profoundly impact the robustness, fairness and interpretability of the systems we build, and that our responsibility for the operation of these systems does not stop once they are deployed. I will discuss technical work, and will place this work into the broader context of policy, education, and public outreach.
Short Bio
Dr. Julia Stoyanovich is Institute Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Associate Professor of Data Science, and Director of the Center for Responsible AI at New York University. Her goal is to make “Responsible AI” synonymous with “AI”. She works towards this goal by engaging in academic research, education and technology regulation, and by speaking about the benefits and harms of AI to practitioners and members of the public. Julia’s research interests include AI ethics and legal compliance, data management and AI systems, and computational social choice. She has co-authored over 100 academic publications, and has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Le Monde. Julia has been teaching courses on responsible data science and AI to students, practitioners and the general public. She is a co-author of the “Data, Responsibly” and “We are AI” comic book series. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Columbia University, and a B.S. in Computer Science and in Mathematics & Statistics from UMass Amherst. Julia’s work has been generously supported by the US National Science Foundation, Pivotal Ventures, JP Morgan Chase, and Meta Responsible AI, among others. She is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award and a Senior Member of the ACM.

Carlo Curino
Microsoft
Carlo Curino (Microsoft, USA)
Title: TBA
Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Abstract
TBA
Short Bio
Carlo A. Curino received a Bachelor in Computer Science at Politecnico di Milano. He participated to a joint project between University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Politecnico di Milano, obtaining a Master Degree in Computer Science at UIC and the Laurea Specialistica (cum laude) in Politecnico di Milano. During the PhD at Politecnico di Milano, he spent almost two years as a visiting researcher at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) working with prof. Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA) and prof. Alin Deutsch (UCSD). He then spent two years as Post Doc Associate at CSAIL MIT working with prof. Samuel Madden and prof. Hari Balakrishnan. At MIT he was also the primary lecturer for the course on databases CS630, taught in collaboration with Mike Stonebraker. He spent a year as Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research.
Carlo's recent research interests include: large scale distributed systems, performance tuning, scheduling. In the past he worked on: mobile+cloud platforms, entity dedup at scale, relational databases and cloud computing, workload management and performance analysis, schema evolution, temporal databases. .
Venue
Galzignano Resort
Galzignano Terme, Padua, Italy
Galzignano Terme, Italy
The gentle profile of the Euganean Hills so beloved by Francesco Petrarca silhouetted against a seemingly endless horizon.
The Galzignano Resort Terme & Golf is located in the very heart of this stunning area, a unique complex with three 4-star hotels and one of the largest spa centres in Europe with natural waters at 37°C, a new Galzignano Wellness Spa, Beauty & Medical Center, a 9-hole golf course, haute cuisine and all amenities for an unbelievable stay.
Its location makes the resort an ideal base for visiting the cultural treasures of some of Italy’s finest historic cities, such as Venice, Padova and Verona, and for appreciating fine food and wine trails of the Veneto area.
Getting to Galzignano Terme
The closest train station is in Abano Terme 5 minutes by car from the resort.
Hotel Accommodation
GALZIGNANO RESORT TERME&GOLF offers options with arrival on Sunday July 2, 2023 and departure on Wednesday July 5, 2023 for a total of 3 nights.
Cost per room and per night | |
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Double room for single use (1 adult) | 85€ |
Double room (2 adults) | 115€ |
Junior suite (3 adults) | 220€ |
Junior suite (2 adults, 1 child [3-11 years old]) | 175€ |
Rates are per room, per night and include:
- Rich Buffet Breakfast
- Free WI-FI in all facilities both in the common areas and in the rooms
- Entrance to indoor and outdoor thermal pools
- Entrance to the Relaxation area at Galzignano Wellness including sauna, grotto, hydromassage, emotional showers, fitness centre with Technogym equipment
- Use of car park
- 10% VAT
To allow for maximum flexibility, lunches and dinners are not included in the base room rates above. See below for details about meals.
Children policies:
- From 0 to 2 years old in room with 2 adults: free
- From 3 to 11 years old, in a third bed in a room with 2 adults: supplement of €60.00 for accommodation in a Junior Suite (€115,00 Junior Suite price for 2 adults)
- From 12 years: adults
Check-in from 3 p.m., check-out by 12 noon.
Extra meals
Galzignano Resort offers different options for extra meals:
Lunch Buffet option
€35.00 (price per lunch per person). Buffet: 1 first course, 1 second course, dessert and fruit buffet. Drinks not included.
Dinner Buffet option
€35.00 (price per dinner per person). Buffet: 1 first course, 1 second course, dessert and fruit buffet. Drinks not included.
A la carte options are always available at Galzignano Resort Restaurants and bars.
To book extra meals (for Lunch and Dinner Buffets options): Write to events@galzignano.it after making the room reservation providing: (i) room reservation details (such as reservation number, name and last name); (ii) quantity of extra meals per day per person.
How to book your room
Participants must make hotel reservations from the Galzignano Resort Terme & Golf booking link: https://www.galzignano.it/en-GB
USE PROME CODE: SEBD2023
SELECT HOTEL “SPORTING”. If there is no availability by selecting “SPORTING”, please select “SPLENDID”.
July being a very popular month for visitors, conference participants are encouraged to book as soon as possible.
A limited number of rooms has been blocked at the Conference Venue until 01 JUNE 2023 23:59 CEST.
After that date, room reservation at the Conference Venue will be possible only subject to availability. Rooms will be assigned on a first-come/first-served basis.
If you don’t use the online reservation form or if you forget to specify SEBD2023 in your reservation, the Galzignano Resort Terme & Golf booking department will not be able to identify you as being entitled to book the rooms we blocked.
Once your request is received, the booking department will answer as soon as possible by email confirming, if rooms are still available, date of arrival/departure, price, payment methods and cancellation policy. If you need assistance or information about booking procedures, payments and invoices, not provided above contact reservations@galzignano.it
Cancellation policies: Advance payment of the total stay at the booking: 50%. Balace at check-out. In case of cancellation, the 50% deposit will be retained.
Additional Hotel services
GOLF CLINIC: 60 min group lesson on a driving range (max. 6 pax per group) including equipment and unlimited practice balls. € 130 per group per lesson hour.
E-BIKE TOUR: Departure from the Bike Point E-bike tour with guide. Cycle along the Euganean Hills path, an ancient navigation route to the walled city of Monselice. Reach, following minor roads, one of the most beautiful villages in Italy: Arquà Petrarca. The route includes Laghetto della Costa (a UNESCO heritage) and Monumental Garden of Valsanzibio. € 33 per person per group minimum 8 persons and maximum 20 persons (Included: e-bike rental, licensed hiking guide, guided tour, organisation. Route approx. 20km)
TENNIS: Tennis lessons € 25 for 1 hour 6 courts available (4 persons)
Childcare service
Galzignano resort can offer some activities for children:
- Creative workshops
- Games
- Face painting
- Homework help (upon request)
- Snack assistance (upon request)
- water games (if allowed by the structure and parents)
- Balloons games
When: 3-5 July, morning time; TIME: tbd
PRICE: €20 per day per child, VAT Excluded
Minimum 4/5 children, maximum 10
How to request the service
Email to Andree Cuccato (andreecuccato@gmail.com) with the following information:
- Email object: Childcare request for SEBD 2023
- Days of attendance for Childcare Service
- Child age
- Homework help request YES/NO
- Snack assistance YES/NO – please specify if you’ll provide your own snacks. (if you want to take advantage of the Resort Bar for your child snack break, please notify Andree with your Room Number on the first day of childcare service)
- Water games (upon confirmation from Galzignano Resort) YES/NO
Registration
Presenting authors should include Paper ID on the registration form.
Registration link
https://www.registerme.eu/event/sebd-2023/
Fees
Early registration (up to May, 26) | Late/Onsite registration (from May, 27) | |
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Full (in presence) | 600€ | 750€ |
Student (in presence) | 350€ | 750€ |
Accompanying person | 250€ | 310€ |
Reduced accompanying person | 175€ | 235€ |
Regular and student conference registration fees also include:
- Access to the conference
- Conference materials
- Coffee breaks at the conference venue
- Lunches at the conference venue (Water, wine, coffee; additional drinks to be paid directly to the hotel)
- Welcome Cocktail (July 2, 2023)
- Social Dinner (July 4, 2023)
The Accompanying person fee includes:
- Coffee breaks at the conference venue
- Lunches at the conference venue (Water, wine, coffee; additional drinks to be paid directly to the hotel)
- Welcome Cocktail (July 2, 2023)
- Social Dinner (July 4, 2023)
The Reduced Accompanying person fee includes:
- Welcome Cocktail (July 2, 2023)
- Social Dinner (July 4, 2023)
- Coffee breaks at the conference venue
- Lunches at the conference venue (Water, wine, coffee; additional drinks to be paid directly to the hotel)
- Welcome Cocktail (July 2, 2023)
- Social Dinner (July 4, 2023)
The Reduced Accompanying person fee includes:
- Welcome Cocktail (July 2, 2023)
- Social Dinner (July 4, 2023)
The Galzignano Resort Terme & Golf offers you a wide choice of à la carte wines (additional service, list available on request).
The dinner on July 3, 2023 can be booked with the room at the Galzignano Resort for 35€ (four-courses menu). It is also possible to order "à la carte". Dinner prices are valid also for accompanying persons. Please see the venue section for all the details.
Social Events participation
Help us not to waste any food or other planet's resources! Organizers will reserve your seat only if social program items are properly flagged in the registration form.
Payments
Fees must be paid in Euro (€) to Sistema Congressi by credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, American Express, PayPal) or bank transfer. Xpay, the online payment system of Nexi (our payment platform) guarantees the security of the transaction.
If you prefer to pay by bank transfer, you should complete the registration form first. Bank transfer details and instructions are included in the registration confirmation email.
Please note that admission to the Symposium cannot be guaranteed unless full payment has been received. Where payment is still pending or delayed, registrations will be automatically cancelled without prior notice.
On-site registration fees can be paid by credit card only.
Invoice
The invoice will be issued after the payment is received and mailed to your e-mail address in pdf format. If your payment is subject to the receipt of our invoice, please submit the on-line registration by selecting the bank transfer as modality of payment first and then send a message to registration@sistemacongressi.com. Please make sure to type the correct invoice billing address. A handling fee of 25% of the invoice total will be withheld in case a new invoice with amended data is requested.
Confirmation email
Once you complete your registration, you will receive an automatic registration confirmation from sistemacongressi@registerme.eu with the summary of the selected options.
If you do not see the email in your inbox then please be sure to check your spam folder in case it got flagged as spam. If you do not receive this e-mail, either your e-mail address was entered incorrectly or your registration procedure not completed.
Cancellation policy and refunds
Cancellation must be always confirmed in writing: write to registration@sistemacongressi.com and do not forget to include all your bank information.
Refund of fees, less € 50 for administrative charge, will be made for cancellations received before June 5, 2023. After this date, no refunds will be possible. Refunds will be paid after the Congress. No refund will be possible in case of no-show.
In the event of cancellation of the conference, at any time, as a result of any event of force majeure or for other reasons that are beyond the control of the Organizing Committee, the registration fee shall NOT be refunded and neither the Organizing Committee nor the Organizing secretariat shall be held liable for any other costs or losses incurred, such as transportation costs, accommodation costs, financial losses, etc. Participants are highly encouraged to provide for their own insurance policy covering such events.
If you need assistance or information about registration procedures, payments and invoices, not provided above contact registration@sistemacongressi.com
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Organization
General Chairs
- Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
- Nicola Ferro (University of Padua)
Program Chairs
- Claudia Diamantini (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Gianmaria Silvello (University of Padua)
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
- Stefano Marchesin (University of Padua)
- Letizia Tanca (Polytechnic of Milan)
Taste of Time Award Chair
- Maristella Agosti (University of Padua)
Program Committee
- Ilaria Bartolini (Università di Bologna)
- Luigi Bellomarini (Banca d’Italia)
- Francesco Buccafurri (Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
- Luca Cabibbo (Università di Roma Tre)
- Loredana Caruccio (Università di Salerno)
- Michelangelo Ceci (Università di Bari)
- Alex Mircoli (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Silvia Chiusano (Politecnico di Torino)
- Paolo Ciaccia (Università di Bologna)
- Enrico Corradini (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Valter Crescenzi (Università di Roma Tre)
- Tommaso Di Noia (Politecnico di Bari)
- Guglielmo Faggioli (Università di Padova)
- Bettina Fazzinga (ICAR-CNR Rende)
- Alfio Ferrara (Università di Milano)
- Elena Ferrari (Università dell’Insubria)
- Donatella Firmani (Università La Sapienza di Roma)
- Paolo Garza (Politecnico di Torino)
- Matteo Golfarelli (Università di Bologna)
- Giovanna Guerrini (Università di Genova)
- Francesco Gullo (UniCredit)
- Pietro Hiram Guzzi (Università di Catanzaro)
- Davide Lanti (Libera Università di Bolzano)
- Francesco Leotta (Università La Sapienza di Roma)
- Giuseppe Manco (ICAR-CNR Rende)
- Federica Mandreoli (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
- Elio Masciari (Università Federico II di Napoli)
- Andrea Maurino (Università di Milano Bicocca)
- Michele Melchiori (Università di Brescia)
- Paolo Missier (Newcastle University, UK)
- Cristian Molinaro (Università della Calabria)
- Stefano Montanelli (Università di Milano)
- Vincenzo Moscato (Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II")
- Paolo Papotti (Eurecom, France)
- Ruggero G. Pensa (Università di Torino)
- Davide Piantella (Politecnico di Milano)
- Andrea Pugliese (Università della Calabria)
- Elisa Quintarelli (Università di Verona)
- Chiara Renso (ISTI-CNR Pisa)
- Rinzivillo Salvatore (ISTI-CNR Pisa)
- Carlo Sartiani (Università della Basilicata)
- Domenico Fabio Savo (Università di Bergamo)
- Giovanni Simonini (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
- Emanuele Storti (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Andrea Tagarelli (Università della Calabria)
- Luigi Bellomarini (Banca d’Italia)
Doctoral Consortium Program Committee
- Flora Amato (Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II")
- Elena Baralis (Politecnico di Torino)
- Silvana Castano (Università di Milano)
- Barbara Catania (Università di Genova)
- Valeria De Antonellis (Università di Brescia)
- Claudia Diamantini (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Sergio Greco (Università della Calabria)
- Domenico Lembo (Università La Sapienza di Roma)
- Vincenzo Moscato (Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II")
- Elena Baralis (Politecnico di Torino)