The 13th International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB 2022) [NEW DEADLINE: FEB. 15, 2022] Co-located with ICDE 2022 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The aim of the SMDB workshop is to provide a forum for researchers from both industry and academia to present and discuss ideas related to self-management and self-organization in data management systems ranging from classical databases to data stream engines to large-scale cloud environments that utilize advanced AI, machine learning, and data mining and analysis. **Important Dates** Paper Abstract (optional): February 15, 2022 5pm PST Paper Submission: February 15, 2022 5pm PST Notification of acceptance: March 4, 2022 Camera-ready: March 15, 2022 Workshop: May 09, 2022 More info at https://db.cs.pitt.edu/smdb2022/ **Submission Guidelines** Submission Site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SMDB2022 Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English of up to 6 pages in the IEEE camera-ready format (templates are available at the ICDE 2022 submission guidelines page) to the submission site (TBA). Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to submit an extended paper of up to 8 pages for final publication. Author are also invited to submit short papers up to 4 pages. The page limit includes the bibliography and any appendix. All accepted papers will appear in the formal Proceedings of the Conference Workshops published by IEEE CS Press, and will be included in the IEEE digital library. Authors of a selection of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD) journal. **Topics of Interest** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Principles and architecture of autonomic data management systems * Retro-fitting existing systems vs. designing for self management * Self-* capabilities in databases and storage systems * Data management in cloud and multi-tenant databases * Autonomic capabilities in database-as-a-service platforms * Automated testing of data management systems * Automated physical database design and adaptive query tuning * Automated provisioning and integration * Automatic enforcement of information quality * Robust query processing techniques * Self-managing database components (e.g., query optimizer, execution engine) * Self-managing data stream engines and adaptive event-based systems * Self-managing distributed / decentralized / peer-to-peer information systems * Self-management of internet-scale distributed systems * Self-management for big data infrastructures * Monitoring and diagnostics in data management systems * Policy automation and visualization for datacenter administration * User acceptance and trust of autonomic capabilities * Evaluation criteria and benchmarks for self-managing systems * Self-evaluation of data management services in the cloud * Use cases and war stories on deploying autonomic capabilities **Organizing Committee** General Chairs Herodotos Herodotou, Cyprus University of Technology, herodotos.herodotou@cut.ac.cy Yingjun Wu, Singularity Data Inc, wu.yj0616@gmail.com Program Chairs Constantinos Costa, University of Pittsburgh, costa.c@cs.pitt.edu Bailu Ding, Microsoft Research, Bailu.Ding@microsoft.com Publicity Chair Demetris Trihinas, University of Nicosia, trihinas.d@unic.ac.cy **Steering Committee** Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, panos@cs.pitt.edu Meichun Hsu, Oracle Corporation, meichun.hsu@oracle.com **Program Committee** Alkis Simitsis, Athena Research Center, Greece Andreas Kipf, MIT, USA Anshuman Dutt, Microsoft Research, USA Bo Tang, Southern University of Science and Technology, China Danica Porobic, Oracle, USA Deepak Majeti, Ahana, USA Eduardo Cunha de Almeida, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Guoliang Li, Tsinghua University, China Jeff LeFevre, UCSC, USA John Paparrizos, University of Chicago, USA Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau, Germany Ken Salem, University of Waterloo, Canada Khuzaima Daudjee, University of Waterloo, Canada Le Gruenwald, University of Oklahoma, USA Lin Ma, CMU, USA Matthias J. Sax, Confluent Inc., USA Meike Klettke, University of Rostock, Germany Mohamed A. Sharaf, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Nikos Katsipoulakis, Snowflake, USA Peter Triantafillou, University of Warwick, UK Ryan Marcus, MIT, USA Tarique Siddiqui, MSR, USA Uta Störl, University of Hagen, Germany