First Workshop on
Data-AI Systems (DAIS)
Co-located with ICDE 2025, Hong Kong, China
May 19, 2025 (Monday)

Large language models (LLMs) have garnered significant interest due to their impressive capabilities on a wide range of tasks. However, integrating LLM-powered agents in applications that operate over complex data ecosystems poses significant challenges related to heterogeneous data management and discovery while balancing trade-offs involving cost, latency, accuracy, interpretability, and trustworthiness. Within such ecosystems, dubbed compound AI systems, agentic workflows often deal with a wide variety of information, such as proprietary data in an enterprise, multilingual low-resource data, and heterogeneous data types and formats, among others. Therefore, a robust integration of LLM agents in real-world applications necessitates a systems approach to tackle these challenges and ensure effective and efficient utilization of heterogeneous data. This workshop will focus on exploring innovative approaches towards building such data-aware compound AI systems in the era of LLMs while balancing objectives such as cost, efficiency, robustness, and interpretability. It will be a full-day workshop involving invited talks representative of the work done in these communities, research presentations, and a panel discussion exploring the design space of compound AI systems.

Announcements

  • The list of accepted papers is now available!
  • The workshop program is now available!
  • The second keynote speaker announced!
  • The first keynote speaker announced!
  • The first call for papers of DAIS 2025 is out!
  • We are excited to announce the First Workshop on Data-AI Systems@ICDE 2025 (DAIS).

Keynotes and Panels

Ziawasch Abedjan is a Professor of Computer Science and chair of the Data Integration and Data Preparation Group at Technische Universität Berlin and the BIFOLD center of excellence.


Eser Kandogan is Principal Research Engineer at Megagon Labs where he is leading research efforts on building enterprise multi-agent platforms. Between 2000-2019, he was a research staff member at IBM Almaden Research Center, conducting research on visual analytics, human-computer interaction, semantic search, and data science and contributing to several IBM products and patents. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland in Computer Science.

Program

Time Event
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome Address
09:10 - 10:00 Keynote 1 (Ziawasch Abedjan)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Long Paper Session
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 Keynote 2 (Eser Kandogan)
14:00 - 14:50 Short Paper Session
14:50 - 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:30 Panel Discussion
16:30 - 17:00 Awards and Closing Remarks

Accepted Papers

Long Papers

Short Papers


Call for Papers

We encourage participation from academic and industry researchers as well as practitioners in data management, AI, and, systems community and aim to foster interdisciplinary collaborations. We welcome work that proposes innovations in designing compound AI systems and their components as well as work that evaluates components of such systems or studies empirically how humans interact with these systems. We encourage research that comes from academic and industry researchers as well as practitioners in data management, AI, and systems community. A sample of topics that are in the spirit of this workshop include, but are not limited to are given below.

Submission Tracks and Instructions

Submissions should present original results and substantial new work not currently under review or published elsewhere. The following submissions are accepted:

The page limit for both tracks is excluding the references. No appendix is allowed. Papers must be submitted via Microsoft CMT. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered. Manuscripts must be prepared following the same rules as ICDE conference papers, i.e., in accordance with the IEEE format available here.

A paper submitted to DAIS cannot be under review for any other conference or journal. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop, and at least one author is required to register.

Evaluation Criteria and Reviewing Process

DAIS will follow a double-anonymous review process to evaluate submissions on the basis of relevance, originality, presentation quality, and technical contribution. The review process will be coordinated by the PC Chairs resulting in a final decision to either accept or reject the submission.


Important Dates


Organization

Workshop Chairs

Steering Committee

Program Committee