PVLDB Volume 18 — Submission Guidelines

New for PVLDB Volume 18

General Information

Papers are to be formatted according to the conference's camera-ready format, as embodied in the document templates. There are four categories of papers in the research track, as described under Guidelines for Contributions:

All the content, including any appendices but excluding the references, must fit on the given number of pages. See Formatting Guidelines for details. Only the references can extend a paper beyond the page limit, and there is no limit on the number of pages used for them. The conference management tool for the submission of abstracts, papers, and supplemental material is accessible at:

For Experiment, Analysis & Benchmark Papers, Vision Papers, and Scalable Data Science Papers, you need to append the category tag as a suffix to the title of the paper such as “Data Management in the Year 3000 [Vision]”; “Comparing Spatial Database Systems [Experiment, Analysis & Benchmark]”; “Data Cleaning in the Wild [Scalable Data Science]”. This must be done both in the paper file and in the CMT submission title. The suffix will not be part of the camera-ready copy if the paper is accepted.

VLDB is a single-blind conference. Therefore, authors MUST include their names and affiliations on the first page of the manuscript.

Submission Process and Deadlines

PVLDB uses a novel review process designed to promote timely submission, review, and revision of scholarly results. The process will be carried out over 12 submission deadlines during the year preceding the VLDB Conference. The basic cycle will operate as follows:

While all attempts will be made to adhere to the schedule mentioned above, authors are advised that reviewing turnaround times may be subject to fluctuations.

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:

Transparency and Reproducibility

Authors are expected to submit supplemental material, such as code, data, and other implementation artifacts used to produce the results reported in the paper. Reviewers and meta reviewers will have access to the supplemental material and consider it in their evaluation of the submission. As part of the meta reviews for accepted submissions, Associate Editors will use a standard rubric to assess the availability of supplemental materials, ensuring their openness and permanence, as well as the readability of instructions for the reuse of the artifacts by other members of the community.

Authors should place the supplemental material in a publicly accessible archival repository and provide a URL during the submission process. Please use standard openly accessible file sharing services with well-understood privacy policies and permanence guarantees, e.g., a public GitHub repository, or open commercial repositories such as Figshare or Dryad. Personal web pages are not acceptable for this purpose. URLs that raise doubt about security and anonymity of access will cause delays in paper evaluation and acceptance.

If authors are not submitting the supplemental material, they must explain why. We understand that there may be compelling reasons; for example, data/code may contain copyrighted contents, artifacts may be a commercialization candidate, or availability may simply not be applicable (e.g., for a vision paper containing no experiments). So long as a reasonable explanation is provided, the paper will be excused from the availability requirement and will not be penalized for the absence of supplemental material. On the other hand, “we ran out of time” and “too much work to prepare our code” would not be acceptable excuses — authors will be asked to address the availability issue before the paper can be accepted.

All accepted papers that provide supplementary materials meeting the availability requirement will be awarded an official ACM badge: https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-and-badging-current

Additionally, we strongly encourage the authors to participate in the PVLDB Reproducibility Evaluation (https://vldb.org/pvldb/reproducibility) and compete for the Best Reproducible Paper Award.

Note that Experiment, Analysis & Benchmark (EA&B) papers (see Guidelines for Contributions for details) are required to:

EA&B papers whose authors are not committed to making their results reproducible will be rejected.

Resubmission, Originality and, Duplicate Submissions

Authors are not allowed to resubmit work that was previously rejected from the research tracks of PVLDB, within one year of the original submission date. A paper withdrawn by the authors after a revision decision will be considered as rejected and the 12-month resubmission embargo applies to such papers as well. A submission rejected from the research track may not be resubmitted within 12 months to the PVLDB research track.

Note that the resubmission embargo does not apply, in either direction, to papers submitted to the VLDB Conference that do not go through the PVLDB review process, including tracks such as Industrial and Demonstrations.

A paper submitted to PVLDB must present original work not described in any prior publication that is more than 4 double-column VLDB-style pages in length. A prior publication is a paper that has been accepted for presentation at a refereed conference or workshop with proceedings; or an article that has been accepted for publication in a refereed journal. If a PVLDB submission has overlap with a prior publication, the submission must cite the prior publication, along with all other relevant published work, even if this prior publication is at or below the 4-page length threshold.

A paper submitted to PVLDB cannot be under review for any other publishing forum or presentation venue, including conferences, workshops, and journals, during the time it is being considered for PVLDB. After you submit a paper to PVLDB, you must await the response from PVLDB and only resubmit elsewhere if your paper is rejected, or withdrawn at your request, from PVLDB.

More details on publication policies can be found at: https://vldb.org/pvldb/general-information/publication-policies