Camera-Ready Instructions
Guidelines for Authors
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Camera Ready Paper Submission
Remarks for the camera ready submission process
Authors are asked to read all these instructions carefully and prepare the submission according to the instructions. The submission process is different from the past, and your submission is unlikely to be complete if you do not study these guidelines.
General Camera Ready Deadline
The general camera ready deadline is June 25, 2009 . All authors of all types of submissions to the main conference must have done a camera-ready submission according to the specific guidelines at this time. Workshops have their own guidelines and are not covered here.
Camera Ready Source Package
In addition to the camera ready document in PDF and all other required submissions, authors are required to submit a source package containing all source files necessary to create the camera-ready PDF. This can be either a single file, or a ZIP file of a folder that contains all necessary files. Make sure that this folder does contain all files, including the bibliographic information, and has no references to sources outside this folder. Do this, for example, by sending the zip to a co-author for testing.
Guidelines for the Different Tracks
Research Papers
Research papers selected for presentation at the VLDB Conference will be published in the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB for short). You may cite your paper as appearing in "Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol 2, No. 1-2, pp mm-nn, 2009". Please visit http://www.jdmr.org for details on the aims and scope of PVLDB.
When preparing the camera ready version of your paper, please make sure to address comments made by the reviewers. We will check to make sure you have made a reasonable effort to incorporate referee suggestions to the extent feasible. To facilitate this check, please provide, along with the camera-ready paper, a brief list of changes you have made to address referee suggestions.
Research papers must adhere to the conference's duplicate submission policy, must be formatted according to the conference's camera ready format, and are limited to 12 pages.
Camera ready submissions for research papers must be done electronically before the general camera ready deadline, through the Conference Management system for the Core Database Technology or the Infrastructure for Information Systems track and include the following:
- One camera ready paper in pdf format .
- One camera ready source package.
- one list of changes.
Furthermore
- One copyright transfer form must be faxed for each paper by the camera ready deadline,
- One author has to register at the main conference by the early registration deadline.
Demonstration Papers
Demonstration papers must adhere to the conference's duplicate submission policy, must be formatted according to the conference's camera ready format, and are limited to 4 pages.
Camera ready submissions for demonstration papers must be done electronically before the general camera ready deadline, through the Conference Management system and include the following:
- One camera ready paper in pdf format .
- One camera ready source package.
Furthermore
- One copyright transfer form must be faxed for each paper by the camera ready deadline,
- One author has to register at the main conference by the early registration deadline.
Tutorial Papers
Tutorial papers must adhere to the conference's duplicate submission policy, must be formatted according to the conference's camera ready format, and are limited to 2 pages.
Camera ready submissions for tutorial papers must be done electronically before the general camera ready deadline, by email to Philippe Rigaux (philippe.rigaux AT dauphine.fr) and include the following:
- One camera ready paper in pdf format .
- One camera ready source package.
Furthermore
- One copyright transfer form must be faxed for each paper by the camera ready deadline,
- One author has to register at the main conference by the early registration deadline.
Industrial, Applications, and Experience Papers
Papers in this track must adhere to the conference's duplicate submission policy, must be formatted according to the conference's camera ready format, and are limited to 12 pages.
Camera ready submissions for papers in this track must be done electronically before the general camera ready deadline, through the Conference Management system and include the following:
- One camera ready paper in pdf format .
- One camera ready source package.
Furthermore
- One copyright transfer form must be faxed for each paper by the camera ready deadline,
- One author has to register at the main conference by the early registration deadline.
Experiments and Analyses Papers
Papers in this track must adhere to the conference's duplicate submission policy, must be formatted according to the conference's camera ready format. Stay within the allotted page limit, specified by your program chair, in the case of a short paper
Camera ready submissions for papers in this track must be done electronically before the general camera ready deadline, through the Conference Management system and include the following:
- One camera ready paper in pdf format .
- One camera ready source package.
Furthermore
- One copyright transfer form must be faxed for each paper by the camera ready deadline,
- One author has to register at the main conference by the early registration deadline.
PhD Workshop Papers
Papers in this track must be formatted according to the conference's camera ready format, and are limited to 6 pages.
Camera ready submissions must be done electronically before the general camera ready deadline, through the Conference Management system and include the following:
- One camera ready paper in pdf format .
- One camera ready source package.
There is no need to provide a copyright transfer form for the PhD Workshop papers.
Formatting Guidelines
General Information
It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the formatting detailed here. In particular, it is not allowed to modify the format with the objective of squeezing in more material. Submissions that do not comply with the formatting detailed here or with the length restrictions as stated in the calls or with additional information sent by email will be sent back to the authors and must be corrected, otherwise they cannot be included in the proceedings.
For LaTeX
VLDB provides a style template that is based on the ACM SIG Proceedings Style. You can download all necessary files here:
* The LaTeX document class vldb.cls
* A sample LaTeX document vldb_sample.tex
* Some pdf files that are used as figures flies.pdf, fly.pdf, rosette.pdf
* An example .bib file sigproc.bib
* A sample output document vldb_sample.pdf
For your convenience, all these files are packed together into a .zip file to download: vldb_format.zip.
For Microsoft Word
Please use this document vldb_sample.doc as template for your paper.
Duplicate Submission Policy
Duplicate submissions are not allowed. A submission is considered to be a duplicate submission if, at any time during the time when the submission is under consideration, there is another paper with the following properties:
- the paper and the VLDB submission have at least one author in common;
- the paper is more than 4 pages long, when formatted in the VLDB format;
- the main technical content of the paper substantially overlaps that of the VLDB submission; and
- the paper is published or under consideration for publication in a refereed journal or proceedings (electronic or printed) that is generally available (e.g., not limited to conference attendees).
Authors are expected to agree to the following terms:
I understand that the paper being submitted must not overlap substantially with any other paper that I am a co-author of and that is currently submitted elsewhere. Furthermore, previously published papers with any overlap are covered prominently in this submission.
Duplicate submissions will be rejected. Questions about this policy or how it applies to your work should be directed to the technical program chair.
Copyright Transfer Form
VLDB 2009 copyright transfer form
One VLDB 2009 copyright transfer form per paper must be sent by fax to the VLDB 2009 proceedings chair, Philippe Rigaux, at the following fax number before the camera ready deadline:
Fax Nr +33 1 60 19 69 63
If no correctly completed and signed copyright transfer form was received by the proceedings chair, your paper cannot be published. No other means of submission of this form is possible. Emailing of a scanned document is not sufficient. For any questions, send an email to philippe.rigaux[at]dauphine.fr.