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Call for papers

DOLAP accepts short and long paper submissions. Moreover, this year for the third time, we will invite extended abstracts on visions, challenges, and opportunities on the special theme of the workshop.

The best papers presented at DOLAP will be invited to a special issue of Information Systems.

• Long papers include novel and mature research, industrial, or survey work. Long papers of good quality but not mature enough might be accepted to the workshop as short papers.
• Short papers include (ongoing) novel research works with preliminary results and vision/position papers outlining research issues for future work.
• Extended abstract will be invited to present in the interactive panel session, and include initial controversial ideas and visions, reports on early (or negative) results, or reflections on existing and future challenges on the theme of the interactive session.

The page limit is 12 pages for full papers, 6 pages for short papers, and 3 pages for extended abstracts (in CEUR format, single-column, excluding references). Each submission will be reviewed by 3 members of the program committee, the review process is single-blind, and thus authors must include their names and affiliations in submissions. Extended abstracts are short papers with an abstract, a main body, and references but have only 2 standard pages of content, references included.

Interactive Panel Session on: Sustainable Analytics

For DOLAP 2026, we solicit extended abstracts about perspectives on exciting and controversial issues of broad interest to the community surrounding the topic of Sustainable Analytics. As analytics and AI become more resource-intensive and enable us to process ever-larger amounts of data, their environmental impact also increases. Furthermore, trust and ethical issues arise from a limited understanding of the data being analyzed.
We welcome extended abstracts on this topic that can present a vision as well as early or negative results, or comments that can influence recent advancements and research directions. For instance:

• How can we design more powerful analytics for large, heterogeneous datasets while minimizing carbon footprint and environmental impact?

• What societal and environmental ethical challenges rise from resource-intensive analytics and how can we cope with them?

• How can we leverage federated technologies, such as edge computing, federated learning, or data spaces among others to reduce energy consumption and data movement?

• Can we design sustainable analytics that are still inclusive, ensuring accessibility for low-resource organizations?

• How can we drive the design of analytical systems that promote sustainability in addition to performance and accuracy?

• How can we improve provenance tracking and data bias awareness to enable more trustworthy and ethical analytics?

We welcome submissions that explore these questions or related topics, providing insights into the future of Sustainable Analytics and their role in shaping the landscape of data analytics and management.

The panel session will feature short presentations followed by extensive and interactive discussions on the presented topics. We encourage the authors to propose topics and perspectives that will engage the audience and ignite debate among the participants. Ultimately, the goal is to tap into one of the original functions of workshops as a forum for discussion, where researchers come together to brainstorm and contribute to paving the way for future research directions.

Research topics

Research topics include, but are not limited to:

• Design and Language
  • Data management fundamentals: architectures, design, ETL/ELT, reverse ETL, modeling, data integration, database design for big data, query processing, maintenance, evolution, security, personalization, and privacy in decision support systems.
  • Data Variety: unstructured data (e.g., text), semi-structured data (e.g., XML, JSON), multimedia, spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal data, stream and sensor data, semantic web, data lakes, data spaces, data quality, graph data, multistore and polystore solutions, multi-model data warehouse
  • Explainable, trustworthy, and interpretable analytics: bias in big data and how to mitigate it; data quality and data cleaning; FAIRness (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability) in OLAP
• Optimization
  • Coping with Volume: physical organization, performance optimization and tuning, scalability, MapReduce and Spark for data analytics, performance optimization of ETL/ELT.
  • Coping with Velocity: Deployment on parallel machine, database clusters, cloud infrastructures and serverless architectures, active/real-time analytics, real-time queries.
• Analytical Processing and Applications
  • Analytics and Value: OLAP, data exploration through visualization, recommendation, reformulation, approximate query-answering, personalization, result presentation, data storytelling, graph analytics, process mining, advanced visualization for business contexts.
  • Analytics and Veracity: heterogeneous data integration for analytics, quality aspects of data analysis, exploration outcome and end-user experience, fairness of data analysis, analytics and data driven decision making for the data enthusiasts.
  • Analytics and ML: integration of analytics with machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, search engines, data science, predictive and prescriptive analytics.
  • Big Data applications: smart city, smart health, smart energy, smart grid, smart agriculture.

Submission instructions

Submissions will be accepted only through the submission site CMT at: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DOLAP2026.

Double submissions to any other conference, workshop, or track of EDBT/ICDT will be rejected.

DOLAP papers must follow the CEUR Proceedings Format. Note that starting this year the only valid format is single column. Please use the Overleaf template at this link. Further instructions on copyright information for DOLAP will follow.

Long papers cannot exceed 12 pages in length, short papers cannot exceed 6, and extended abstract cannot exceed 3 (excluding references).

The proceedings of the workshop will be published online as a volume of the CEUR Workshop Proceedings, a well-known website for publishing workshop proceedings. It is indexed by the major publication portals, such as DBLP, Citeseer, and Google Scholar.

Acknowledgements

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.