53rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases Athens, Greece — Aug 23rd - Aug 27th, 2027

VLDB 2027: Call for Contributions - Demonstrations

VLDB 2027 invites submissions for software demonstration proposals on any topic of interest to the data management community. Software demonstrations are accompanied by short papers, which will appear in the PVLDB proceedings upon acceptance. Demonstrations presented at the conference will be eligible to receive the VLDB 2027 Best Demo Award.

Important Dates

Demo Proposals

VLDB 2027 invites software demonstration proposals on data management systems and infrastructures, including novel system architectures, large-scale data processing, and data-intensive applications. The demonstration track follows the scope of the research track: demonstrations must fall within the Topics of Interest listed in the VLDB 2027 Call for Research Track. A demonstration does not need to present new research results. Systems whose underlying techniques have already been published, for example in a research paper at VLDB or another venue, are welcome. In that case, the proposal should cite the prior publication(s) and make clear what the demonstration adds beyond them, such as a working end-to-end system, an interactive interface, new usage scenarios, or insights that only become visible through hands-on use.

The proposal should pay special attention to describing the exact demonstration scenarios for the given system. This should include how the audience will experience the demo, the architecture of the proposed system, what kind of functionality is supported, user scenarios, interface and interaction options, etc. Proposals with a high degree of audience interaction that can engage the audience will be preferred. Proposals must be submitted in camera-ready format and limited to 4 pages, inclusive of ALL material (references, acknowledgements, appendix). Formatting guidelines and document templates are available at https://vldb.org/pvldb/volumes/20/formatting/. Submissions are single-anonymous and must contain author names and affiliations. Proposals will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers, and the review process will be managed by an Associate Editor.

Video Submission (Mandatory)

Every demonstration proposal must be accompanied by a demonstration video (up to 5 minutes, 50MB max. file size), submitted via CMT by the proposal submission deadline. Proposals without a video will be desk-rejected. Both the demonstration proposal and the video will be accessible to the reviewers.

The video should summarize your demonstration and audio-visually highlight its most important aspects, such as the user interface, options for user interaction, the system setup, etc. The narration must be recorded by one of the authors listed in the proposal. The video must be submitted in MPEG/AVI/MP4 format and be playable by common media players. Please note that you will need to first finish your demo proposal submission and then edit it to add the video as a supplementary file; please allow enough time to complete both steps before the deadline.

Author Requirements (New)

Submission limit. Each individual may be an author of at most 3 demonstration proposals. If an author appears on more than 3 submissions, the submissions exceeding the limit (in order of submission time on CMT) will be desk-rejected.

Reviewing commitment. Each submission must nominate at least one qualified author who agrees to serve on the Demo Program Committee if invited. A qualified author is one with at least two previous papers or demos in SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE or EDBT. The nominated author must be identified in CMT at submission time and may be invited as a Light Load Reviewer with up to 3 demo paper assignments. Nominated reviewers who fail to complete their assigned reviews may have their own submissions withdrawn.

Attendance. At least one author of each accepted demonstration must register for the conference and present the demonstration in person. Accepted demonstrations that are not presented at the conference will be removed from the proceedings.

Conflict and Authorship

To minimize biases in the evaluation process, we use CMT's conflict management system, through which authors should flag conflicts with members of the Editorial Board.

Conflict Declaration on CMT: Each author is responsible for entering their own domain and individual PC conflicts on CMT. All authors of a paper (listed in the pdf) must register themselves in CMT and declare their individual domain and PC conflicts at the time of submission. It is the full responsibility of all authors of a paper to identify and declare all CoIs with members of the Editorial Board (Reviewers, Associate Editors, and Editors in Chief) prior to the submission deadline. Conflicts of interest will also be checked using an automated CoI detection tool. Submissions with undeclared conflicts or spurious conflicts will be desk-rejected.

After a paper is accepted, the set of authors cannot be changed.

You can mark your domain and individual PC conflicts by clicking on your name (upper right-hand side on CMT) and selecting "Personal Conflicts". An author's declared conflicts will be automatically applied to all of their submissions.

X and Y have a conflict of interest (CoI) if any of the following applies:

Submission

Demonstration proposals must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using CMT. When creating a new paper submission, you will be given the option to choose a track. Choose the "Demo" track for your demo proposal. Once you have submitted your paper, you can add your video submission file in a second step. You will find the VLDB 2027 CMT submission site at: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PVLDBv20_2027/

Demo Track Chairs

Essam Mansour, Concordia University
Zoi Kaoudi, IT University of Copenhagen