Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Vision and Rationale Original (Historical) Vision Transition Plans
The Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) publishes papers written in the "conference-style", with a rapid turnaround review process. The first issue appeared in 2008, and comprised research papers accepted for presentation at VLDB 2008. PVLDB is a publication of the Very Large Database Endowment. Details regarding the vision and rationale for this new publication, including an ultimate objective of a more comprehensive "Journal of Data Management Research", can be found here.
Submissions to PVLDB may be made now through Microsoft's CMT web site. There are 12 submission deadlines a year that correspond to month boundaries. (The deadline is set to 5 a.m. Pacific Time on the first of each month). Papers accepted by May 2010 will also be offered a presentation slot at the VLDB conference in 2010. Note that this is a new, alternative, review process, offered in parallel with the traditional review process for VLDB. The primary benefits of choosing this process over the traditional one is that unreasonable referee reviews may be rebutted, and at the same time good reviewer suggestions may be adopted, in preparing a revised version of the manuscript before the final acceptance/rejection decision is made. The formatting guidelines are the same as for VLDB 2010 submission through the normal PC process. Since these guidelines are not yet published officially, please use intead the formatting guidelines for VLDB 2009 with one important modification: the paper length is limited to 8 pages instead of 12. You are permitted a 4 page appendix beyond these 8 pages. However, reviewers are not required to read this appendix, and the paper should be understable and complete within the 8 pages. Typically, it is appropriate to place proofs, algorithm pseudocode, data set descriptions, etc. in the appendix. It is usually not appropriate to move definitions, theorems, figures, and experimental results to the appendix. This 8+4 page rule applies to both submissions and camera-ready.
The Editors-in-Chief of the VLDB Journal (VLDBJ) and PVLDB have agreed that extended versions of papers published in PVLDB may be considered for publication in VLDBJ.
Editor-in-Chief: H. V. Jagadish
Information Director: Gerald Weber
Steering Committee: Serge Abiteboul, Peter Apers, Philip Bernstein, Elisa Bertino, Peter Buneman, Martin Kersten, Z. Meral Ozsoyuglu
Guest Editors for Volume 1, 2008: Peter Buneman, Beng Chin Ooi, Kenneth Ross, Gerald Weber
Guest Editors for Volume 2, 2009: Serge Abiteboul, Tova Milo, Jignesh Patel, Philippe Rigaux
A distinguished review board is responsible for reviews and paper acceptance through the VLDB "journal track".
A goal of PVLDB is to raise acceptance rates above those of traditional conference review, while accepting papers of quality at least as good or better. [As explained in the vision document, this "magic" is possible on account of the revision process]. Statistics for the first year are now available to see how well we are doing towards this goal.
