Research Papers
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.

Paper submission must be done electronically using the conference management tools for the Core Database Technology or the Infrastructure for Information Systems track. For each paper, its authors must submit an abstract by March 9th, 2006 (5:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time). The full paper must subsequently be submitted electronically, in pdf format, by March 16th, 2006 (5:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time). Authors will be notified of the results by May 30th, 2006. Further questions may be addressed to:

Core Database Technology Program Chair:
David Lomet (lomet at microsoft com)

Infrastructure for Information Systems Program Chair:
Gustavo Alonso (alonso at inf ethz ch)

Papers will be judged according to their category, so authors should give careful consideration to placing their papers appropriately.


Industrial, Applications, and Experience Papers
Full papers or extended abstracts must be submitted electronically, in pdf format, by March 16th, 2006 (5:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time) using the conference management tool. The duplicate submission policy and the formatting requirements for research papers apply. In particular, each paper must be formatted according to the conference's camera-ready format and the page length is restricted to at most 12 pages. Authors will be notified of the results by May 30th, 2006. Further questions may be addressed to:

Guy Lohman (lohman at almaden ibm com)



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:
  1. the paper and the VLDB submission have at least one author in common;
  2. the paper is more than 4 pages long, when formatted in the VLDB format;
  3. the main technical content of the paper substantially overlaps that of the VLDB submission; and
  4. 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 General Program Chair, Umeshwar Dayal (umeshwar.dayal at hp com).



Formatting Guidelines
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 will be rejected without review.

Please note that papers may be submitted either in the traditional VLDB format or the ACM SIG format. The camera ready submission must use the ACM SIG formatting guidelines, though. Note that the page length restrictions apply to both formats. The page limit for research papers: 12 pages.

The ACM SIG format is described in detail on the website,
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html, where there are both LaTeX and Word templates. There are two styles on the website. Both Strict Adherence to SIGS style and Tighter Alternate style are allowed.

The traditional VLDB format is described below.
General formatting guidelines for the VLDB format may be found in the file format.txt. These guidelines apply to all the categories of papers to appear in the conference proceedings. The page limit for research papers: 12 pages.

In order to help you format your submissions, we have provided a few files for both LaTeX and Microsoft Word users:

  • LaTeX:

    • vldb.sty is a LaTeX style file (it should work with both LaTeX version 2.09 and LaTeX2e) which should be made to work by including it through a \documentstyle directive like this:
      \documentstyle[vldb]{article}.

      This style file will insert the required copyright notice automatically.

      Note that the "\topmargin -55pt" command in the style file is not a standard option and does not have a counterpart option (\bottommargin). If you experience problems with it, such as printing with no top margin, you might try defining standard LaTeX margins by setting "tmargin=0.75in,bmargin=1.125in" within the "\geometry" clause.
    • vldb.cls is the adaptation of the vldb.sty file to the LaTeX2e class format. It should be made to work by including it through a direct \documentclass directive, like this:
      \documentclass{vldb}.
    • vldb_format.tex is a LaTeX2e template (it uses the vldb.cls class file) and the file vldb_format.pdf illustrates how the resulting file should look like.
  • Microsoft Word:
    • vldb_format.doc is a Word version of formatting guidelines, appropriately formatted.
Finally, the conference's copyright_notice.txt must be included in your paper. Note that it is already included in the LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates.

For ease of downloading, copies of all of the files linked to above are included in the archive all_files.zip.

Additional hints:
  • A search on the web will identify a number of freely available tools that are able to convert different file formats into pdf format. It is particularly important that only standard fonts are used and that bit-mapped fonts are avoided. If non-standard fonts are needed they must be embedded in the submitted file.
  • If you are planning to generate a Postscript file and then converting it into pdf using "ps2pdf," use the option -Ppdf with dvips, e.g., "dvips -Ppdf yourfile.dvi -o yourfile.ps" and then "ps2pdf yourfile.ps." Since the manuscript uses the US letter page size, it is better to inform dvips explicitly by using '-t letter' option, e.g., "dvips -Ppdf -t letter yourfile.dvi -o yourfile.ps." Most systems should support the -Ppdf option; if yours does not, consider contacting your system administrator.
  • Adobe Reader (which is freely available for a number of platforms) allows one to inspect the fonts used in a pdf file (typically under the option File/Document Info/Fonts). Before you submit your pdf file, it is recommended that you use that tool to make sure that all fonts used are listed as embedded.

Industrial Paper Format
Industrial papers also follow the same formatting guidelines as stated above. That is, both the traditional VLDB format and the ACM SIG format are allowed. ( Both Strict Adherence to SIGS style and Tighter Alternate style are allowed.) The page limit for industrial papers is also 12 pages.


Demonstration Paper Format
Demonstration papers also follow the same formatting guidelines as stated above. The page limit for demonstration papers is 4 pages.


(Downloadable VLDB06_Format_All_files.zip file )






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