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Use when deciding whether a data-management project belongs at EDBT or should be routed to SIGMOD, VLDB/PVLDB, ICDE, the co-located ICDT theory venue, or a database journal, and when choosing the EDBT paper shape (Regular / Experiments-&-Analysis / Vision) and the nearest submission cycle.

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# EDBT Topic Selection

Decide the venue and the paper shape before drafting. EDBT — the International Conference on
**Extending Database Technology** — is the European database-systems flagship, held jointly with
**ICDT** (its theory sibling) and published open access on OpenProceedings.org. Its reviewers read
for a **contribution that extends real database technology**: systems, applied data management, and
experiments-and-analysis work. A paper whose true center is a complexity result, a pure-ML model, or
a US-flagship-scale systems marathon may be respected and then rerouted.

## The routing question that matters most

EDBT overlaps heavily with SIGMOD, VLDB, and ICDE in scope and reviewer pool, so the decisive
question is rarely "is this databases?" but **"which database community, publication model, and
cycle fits this paper now?"** Two EDBT-specific pulls tilt the answer:
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