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The
VLDB PhD workshop is a forum for PhD students working in the broad VLDB
research areas. This forum aims at facilitating interactions among PhD
students and at stimulating feedback from more experienced researchers on the
PhD thesis topics.
We encourage students at all stages of their PhD to submit short papers to
this workshop.
In particular, this includes students that are just starting their research
and that would like to receive feedback on their research ideas and plan.
Any topic covered by the VLDB conference is acceptable. The thesis advisor
may be a coauthor, but the first author should be the student. The accepted
papers will be published on the web (if the author provides the explicit
consent) as a CEUR-WS Workshop proceedings.
The paper 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 of new solutions the student is pursuing. There should
be enough substance to provide discussion, but the work does not need to be
complete.
The submission should also indicate the expected duration of the PhD thesis
and the current stage of the work.
We expect papers to be significantly different from any other submissions by
the authors. A PhD workshop paper must take a global point of view, relevant
to the entire thesis program. It should be speculative rather than completed
work. For this reason, there should be no question of significant overlap
with any full technical paper on a narrow topic submitted to any past or
current technical conference or journal.
The Program Committee for this workshop consists entirely of distinguished
researchers who have obtained their PhDs within the last 5 years. Each member
of the Program Committee has agreed to attend the PhD workshop if he or she
is attending the VLDB conference itself. In addition, the organizers will endeavour to "recruit" senior professors to
read beforehand the papers to be presented and provide the students with
feedback on their research topics and approach.
The paper presentations will only be 15 minutes, with 15 additional minutes
for discussion. 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.
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