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. Please see a quick overview description of this new publication model or a more detailed FAQ. An older publication lays out the vision and rationale for this new publication, including an ultimate objective of a more comprehensive "Journal of Data Management Research."

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 15, 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 traditional PC process. Note that 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, bibliography, and experimental results to the appendix. Any references to the appendix from the main paper should only be in the nature of "for additional detail see..". In particular, there should be nothing in the appendix that is necessary for a reader to understand the paper. This 8+4 page rule applies to both submissions and camera-ready. It will also apply to VLDB2010 traditional PC submission tracks.

Submissions to PVLDB may be made now through Microsoft's CMT web site. However, any revisions of papers previously submitted through the original CMT site, should continue to be submitted to the original CMT site.

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
Guest Editors for Volume 3, 2010: Elisa Bertino, Paolo Atzeni, Kian Lee Tan, Yi Chen, Y. C. Tay
Guest Editors for Volume 4, 2011: Jose Blakeley, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Nick Koudas, Wolfgang Lehner, Sunita Sarawagi

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 and second years are now available to see how well we are doing towards this goal