General Information

The VLDB PhD workshop is a forum for PhD students working in the broad areas addressed by the VLDB conference itself. This forum aims at facilitating interactions among PhD students and at stimulating feedback from more experienced researchers.

We welcome submissions from students that are enrolled in a PhD program and who are doing research work relevant to the topics covered by the VLDB conference. We particularly encourage submissions from students who are at the last stages of their doctoral work, and who can therefore present a more "complete" story about their thesis, and students who are in the beginning stages of their work and thus have a significant "future work" component. We believe that these two categories can benefit the most from a presentation at the workshop: The former can showcase their thesis to a wider audience in preparation for a job search, while the latter can get valuable feedback about the research that they plan to do in the coming years.

Papers should clearly describe a problem, explain why it is important, detail what the existing solutions are and why they are not sufficient, and give some indication/description of new solutions the student is pursuing. There should be enough substance to provide discussion, but the work does not need to be complete. Submissions must be single-author, but the name of the supervisor should also be mentioned.

The Program Committee for this workshop consists mainly of distinguished researchers who have obtained their PhDs not too long ago. Members of the Program Committee as well as some senior professors will attend the PhD workshop. Every accepted paper will be read by 2-3 members of this accompanying group who will then be particularly prepared to give feedback.

The accepted papers will be published as part of the proceedings of the workshop. Due to the sensitive nature of the submitted material, authors will be given the choice to include either the full paper in the proceedings or a short 1-page overview.

Paper presentations will be limited to 25 minutes, with 20 additional minutes for discussion. To accommodate for the time constraints of the workshop, a subset of the accepted papers may be pushed to poster sessions. This distinction will not affect the proceedings of the workshop, however, as all papers will have an equal publication status. Consistently with the objective of last year's VLDB PhD workshop, we hope to revive the original idea of a "workshop" - the dictionary says "a meeting for concerted discussion or activity". It should be a lively, exciting event. We will also try to organize some social events for all participants, to allow for further interaction.

Authors should submit their papers in PDF format through the conference management tool.

The paper should be of max. 6 pages (including references) and should be formatted with the same rules as VLDB papers. Submissions must be single-author, and the name of the supervisor must be clearly marked ("supervised by ...") on the paper, under the author's name.

Please make sure to meet these guidelines.

IMPORTANT: To be fair to all authors, we will strictly enforce the submission guidelines. We will not be able to accept submissions that do not conform to the guidelines described earlier.

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