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icdt-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a database-theory project belongs at ICDT (International Conference on Database Theory) or should be routed to PODS, the co-located EDBT systems track, a pure-TCS venue (LICS, ICALP, STACS), or a journal (ACM TODS, LMCS, TheoretiCS), and when distinguishing ICDT from its sibling database-theory flagship PODS by calendar, publisher, and community.
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# ICDT Topic Selection
Decide the venue before drafting. ICDT — the International Conference on Database Theory — is the
**European foundations-of-data-management** venue, held jointly with **EDBT** and published **open
access in LIPIcs**. Its referees read for a **precise theorem with a clear consequence for data
management**: query languages, the complexity of query evaluation, finite model theory over
databases, consistent query answering, provenance, and the theory of data integration. A technically
strong paper whose real content is generic complexity theory, pure logic, or a systems benchmark is
respected and then rejected as out of scope.
## The routing question that matters most
ICDT and **PODS** are the two database-theory flagships and overlap almost completely in scope, so
the decisive question is rarely "is this database theory?" but **"which of the two theory venues,