Call for Workshops

Aims and Scope

The 26th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM 2026) will include half- or full-day workshops that complement the main conference technical program, with the goal of expanding new directions and applications of data mining for both practitioners and researchers in a particular field. These workshops provide a more focused, in-depth venue for presentations, discussions and interaction. Each workshop will solicit papers (max 8 pages plus 2 extra pages) for peer review. Furthermore, as in previous years, papers that are not accepted by the main conference will be automatically sent to a workshop selected by the authors when the papers were submitted to the main conference. By ICDM tradition, all accepted workshop papers will be published in the dedicated ICDMW proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. At least one of the workshop chairs must register and attend ICDM 2026 in person.

Preparing Your Workshop Proposal

Workshop Proposals will require the following information:

  • Title and acronym of the workshop

  • Is this a continuation of a previous ICDM workshop?

  • Duration (full-day or half-day)

  • Description of the workshop topic, relevance to ICDM, and a draft version of CFP (not exceeding 500 words)

  • Short description on how the organizers plans to attract quality submissions

  • Preliminary list of invited speakers (if any)

  • Short bio of the organizers

  • Tentative program committee

  • Contact information of the organizers (including name, affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address)

If the organizer(s) have previously organized this workshop, please highlight the following:

  • Past workshop organizing experience from the organizer(s)

  • Number of papers submitted and accepted last year or the last time the workshop was held

  • Number of invited keynote speakers

  • Total attendees last year or the last time the workshop was held.

We encourage proposals that foster diversity, originality, and innovation among diverse research areas and the ICDM research community. We recommend reviewing examples of recent ICDM workshops (e.g. ICDMW2025, ICDMW2023, ICDMW2021) to understand previous themes, and hope to inspire fresh, innovative ideas that bring unique contributions to the ICDM research community.

Key Dates

  • Workshop proposal submissions: March 14, 2026

  • Workshop proposal acceptance notifications: April 11, 2026

  • Workshop papers submission: August 20, 2026

  • Notification of workshop papers acceptance to authors: September 18, 2026

  • Camera-ready deadline and copyright form: TBA

All times are at 11:59PM AOE (Anywhere on Earth)

Submission

Workshop proposals should be submitted in a single PDF with up to 2 pages and submitted before the submission deadline. Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF, by email to icdm2026wksp@gmail.com (subject: IEEE ICDM 2026 Workshop proposal + workshop title).

Full-day workshop proposals may be offered a half-day workshop slot depending on venue availability.

Workshop Chairs