Transcript VLDB 2005 Technical Program Report Christian S. Jensen Technical Program Chair with Klemens Böhm, Klaus R.

VLDB 2005
Technical Program Report
Christian S. Jensen
Technical Program Chair
with
Klemens Böhm, Klaus R. Dittrich, Laura Haas,
Martin Kersten, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Paul Larson,
Beng Chin Ooi, Tore Risch, Betty Salzberg, and
Øystein Torbjørnsen
highlights
Technical Program Highlights
• Keynote:
Why Search Engines are Used Increasingly to Offload
Queries from Databases
• Panel:
Database Publication Practices
• Tutorials:
approximate joins, contextual insight in search,
synopsis construction, personalized-system construction,
semantic overlay networks, XML full-text search
• Industrial sessions (7)
• 30 demos – overview sessions as well as up-close sessions!
• Research sessions (28, 85 papers)
Technical Program Highlights
• 10 Year Best Paper Session:
W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web
• A total of 11 VLDB affiliated workshops
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The largest number ever!
statistics
Acceptance Rates by Track
CoreDB
IIS
IA&E
Total
Demos
Submit
322
195
46
563
68
Accept
53
32
18
103
30
Acceptance
Rate
16.5%
16.4%
39%
18.3%
43.8%
Submissions By Year and Track
351
365
468
457
504
563
600
46
500
41
37
46
195
400
34
191
26
162
222
300
200
317
339
322
209
100
249
272
2003
2004
0
2000
2001
CoreDB
2002
IIS
2005
IA&E
Acceptances By Year and Track
84
85
98
103
120
100
80
16
(43.2%)
60
31
9
15
(36.6%)
18
(39.1%)
28
(14.7%)
32
(16.4%)
55
(20.2%)
53
(16.5%)
(19.6%)
27
(16.6%)
48
(19.2%)
(14.0%)
40
20
38
(18.2%)
0
2002 (18.3%)
CoreDB
2004 (19.4%)
2003 (18.3%)
IIS
2005 (18.3%)
IA&E
comments
The Process
• This year, a program committee for demo papers was
introduced.
• All submissions were reviewed by (at least) three
reviewers.
• All deadlines were met – notification was even given early!
The Process
• A PC chair meeting was held in Seattle.
• Prior to this, the PC members had discussed the papers
they had reviewed.
• The final selection of papers to accept was made at the
PC chair meeting.
• Rigorous conflict of interest mechanisms were enforced.
• No quota on the number of papers that could be accepted
was enforced.
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Decoupling of the number of presentation slots and acceptance.
In the future, the lengths of presentation slots may vary.
We need kinder reviewing to obtain higher acceptance rates.
Observations
• Workshops
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VLDB 1995 had one.
This year, we have the largest workshop program ever.
Should some workshops occur in parallel with the conference?
• Submission procedure
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About 30% of the abstract submissions never materialize.
Of little value to have two deadlines?
• Proceedings
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They are beautiful, inside and out.
They could be the last hardcopy VLDB proceedings.
A very limited edition – very few exist.
They are true collector’s items.
Who gets to the registration desk first?
PS. Bring money.
Acknowledgments
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The technical program officers
170 PC members
~440 external referees
The local organizers
2,000+ authors
You, the conference participants!
thank you!
enjoy the conference