In the era of big data, vast and diverse data are stored and managed across various locations in the real world. These fragmented and isolated repositories—so-called “data islands”—significantly diminish the utility of data. To fully realize the potential of big data, it is essential to eliminate such data islands and promote integration. This workshop seeks to explore new directions in database research aimed at enhancing the value and usability of big data. This workshop is jointly organized by the A3 Foresight Program “New Generation Databases and Data-Empowering Technologies” supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

Research topics included in the workshop (list a number of interesting topics or areas covered by workshop)


  • Applications for new-generation database systems
  • Cross-domain data management
  • Data cleaning and preparation
  • Data mining and data analysis in big data era
  • Data transformation mechanisms
  • Distributed query processing
  • Elimination of data islands techniques
  • Multi-node computing architectures
  • New-generation database systems in big data era
  • Novel algorithmic and statistical techniques for big data
  • Parallel and distributed data science
  • Privacy-preserved databases
  • Query optimization techniques
  • Secure computation in databases
  • Tensor Databases
  • Unified data models
  • Unification of multi-source data

Not limited to the above. Any research papers related to databases in big data era are welcome.

Important Dates:

Oct 26, 2025 (US Eastern standard time): Due date for paper submission (passed)

Nov 23, 2025: Camera-ready of accepted papers

Nov 16, 2025 Nov. 13, 2025: Notification of paper acceptance to authors

Dec 10, 2025: Workshops in conjunction with IEEE Big Data 2025

Workshop co-Organizers

Prof. Zhou Aoying (East China Normal University, China)
Assist. Prof. Park Kwanghyun (Yonsei University, Korea)
Prof. Hayato Yamana (Waseda University, Japan)

Contact: d2et-oc <@> list.waseda.jp

Program Chair

Prof. Masashi Toyoda (University of Tokyo, Japan)

PC members

BOHAN LI (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
DU XIAOYONG (Renmin University of China, China)
GU YANHUI (Nanjing Normal University, China)
LI ZHIXU (Renmin University of China, China)
LU WEI (Renmin University of China, China)
QIAN WEINING (East China Normal University, China)
YANG BIN (East China Normal University, China)
YANG CHENGCHENG (East China Normal University, China)
YU GE (Northeastern University, China)
ZHANG FENG (Renmin University of China, China)
ZHANG XINYI (Renmin University of China, China)
ZHANG YANFENG (Northeastern University, China)

Dong-Jun Han (Yonsei University, Korea)
Dongha Lee (Yonsei University, Korea)
Jieung Kim (Yonsei University, Korea)

Hisashi Miyamori (Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan)
Katsumi Tanaka (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
Kazuo GODA (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Kento Sugiura (Nagoya University, Japan)
Kyoungsook KIM (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
Naoki Yoshinaga (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Masashi Toyoda (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Masato Oguchi (Ochanomizu University, Japan)
Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Osaka Seikei University, Japan)
Miyuki Nakano (Research Organization of Information and System, Japan)
Qiang MA (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
Xin Liu (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
Yang Cao (Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan)
Yijun Duan (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)