期刊名称：VLDB JOURNAL
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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The VLDB Journal is a quarterly journal published on behalf of the VLDB Endowment. The journal is dedicated to the publication of scholarly contributions to the advancement of information system architectures, the impact of technological advancements on information systems, and the development of novel database applications. The journal was launched in July 1992. It is now published both in electronic and printed edition by Springer-Verlag, beginning with volume 5 (1996).
In addition to its goal as an outlet for high quality and timely research and development results, the journal has two important commitments:
to low cost so that it is widely affordable; to a quick publication of accepted papers, so as to publish the most recent and timely results.
High quality and timely publication is achieved by employing a large editorial board of internationally known researchers and a thorough review procedure. Each editor handles a relatively small number of papers at any one time, and can pay more attention to quality and timeliness of reviews. Papers are available electronically to subscribers as soon as they are accepted, regardless of the schedule of the paper version.
The VLDB Endowment Inc. http://www.vldb.org
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Instructions to Authors
Manuscript Submission
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.
Permissions
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
Online Submission
Authors should submit their manuscripts online. Electronic submission substantially reduces the editorial processing and reviewing times and shortens overall publication times. Please follow the hyperlink “Submit online” on the right and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen.
Other Submission Rules
- Overlapping Publications
If a submitted paper has significant overlap with one or more refereed or copyrighted publications by the authors then the authors must disclose this to the handling editor-in-chief at the time of submission. Their submission must cite those publications and explain their relationship to the submission. Similarly, the authors must immediately notify an editor-in-chief if they submit an overlapping paper for publication in a refereed or copyrighted outlet while their VLDB Journal submission is being considered.
Technical reports (including technical reports posted on CoRR), theses, and publications with limited distribution need not be disclosed unless this is deemed appropriate by the authors. If in doubt, authors should err on too much disclosure, not too little. Feel free to ask an editor-in-chief for advice.
A submission that substantially overlaps the authors' previous refereed or copyrighted publications, such as an extended version of a conference paper, must contain at least 30% significant new content. Such a submission must be accompanied by a separate detailed explanation to the reviewers and the handling editor-in-chief of this additional content. Deciding whether the additions are significant enough to warrant publication is inevitably a judgment call of the reviewers and editor.
The Editors-in-Chief of the VLDB Journal and the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB [www.jdmr.org]) agree that extended versions of papers published in PVLDB may be considered for publication in the VLDB Journal. Thus, the above paragraph about extended versions of conference papers applies to papers previously published in PVLDB.
- Length Restriction
New submissions may be at most 25 pages in double-column format if formatted using Springer’s LaTeX macro package (which is strongly preferred). If formatted using Springer’s Word template in single-column format, it may be at most 38 pages, which corresponds approximately to 25 double-column LaTeX pages. If accepted, a Word submission must ultimately be converted to fit in 25 double-column pages using Springer’s LaTeX macro package.
- Conflicts of Interest
Authors must identify any editor-in-chief or editorial board member of The VLDB Journal with whom they have a conflict-of-interest along with the nature of the conflict. This can be entered in the Submit Comments step during the submission process. Conflicts-of-interest include a family relationship, business relationship, employment by the same enterprise, co-authorship of a paper within the past two years, advisor-advisee relationship (present or past), or other close relationship that an informed third party would consider an impediment to objective evaluation of the submission.
Title page
Title Page
The title page should include:
- The name(s) of the author(s)
- A concise and informative title
- The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)
- The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author
Abstract
Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
Keywords
Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.
Text
Text Formatting
Manuscripts should be submitted in LaTeX. Please use Springer’s LaTeX macro package and choose the formatting option “twocolumn”.
The submission should include the original source (including all style files and figures) and a PDF version of the compiled output.
Word files are also accepted. In this case, please use Springer’s Word template for preparing your manuscript.
Headings
Please use the decimal system of headings with no more than three levels.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.
Footnotes
Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.
Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols.
Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the reference list. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.
References
Citation
Reference citations in the text should be identified by numbers in square brackets. Some examples:
1. Negotiation research spans many disciplines [3].
2. This result was later contradicted by Becker and Seligman [5].
3. This effect has been widely studied [1-3, 7].
Reference list
The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list.
The entries in the list should be numbered consecutively.
- Journal article
Hamburger, C.: Quasimonotonicity, regularity and duality for nonlinear systems of partial differential equations. Ann. Mat. Pura. Appl. 169, 321–354 (1995)
- Article by DOI
Sajti, C.L., Georgio, S., Khodorkovsky, V., Marine, W.: New nanohybrid materials for biophotonics. Appl. Phys. A (2007). doi:10.1007/s00339-007-4137-z
- Book
Geddes, K.O., Czapor, S.R., Labahn, G.: Algorithms for Computer Algebra. Kluwer, Boston (1992)
- Book chapter
Broy, M.: Software engineering — from auxiliary to key technologies. In: Broy, M., Denert, E. (eds.) Software Pioneers, pp. 10–13. Springer, Heidelberg (2002)
- Online document
Cartwright, J.: Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb. http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1 (2007). Accessed 26 June 2007
Always use the standard abbreviation of a journal’s name according to the ISSN List of Title Word Abbreviations, see
.
For authors using EndNote, Springer provides an output style that supports the formatting of in-text citations and reference list.
Tables
- All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
- Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
- For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
- Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.
- Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.
Artwork
For the best quality final product, it is highly recommended that you submit all of your artwork – photographs, line drawings, etc. – in an electronic format. Your art will then be produced to the highest standards with the greatest accuracy to detail. The published work will directly reflect the quality of the artwork provided.
Electronic Figure Submission
- Supply all figures electronically.
- Indicate what graphics program was used to create the artwork.
- For vector graphics, the preferred format is EPS; for halftones, please use TIFF format. MS Office files are also acceptable.
- Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.
- Name your figure files with "Fig" and the figure number, e.g., Fig1.eps.
Line Art
- Definition: Black and white graphic with no shading.
- Do not use faint lines and/or lettering and check that all lines and lettering within the figures are legible at final size.
- All lines should be at least 0.1 mm (0.3 pt) wide.
- Scanned line drawings and line drawings in bitmap format should have a minimum resolution of 1200 dpi.
- Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.
Halftone Art
- Definition: Photographs, drawings, or paintings with fine shading, etc.
- If any magnification is used in the photographs, indicate this by using scale bars within the figures themselves.
- Halftones should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
Combination Art
- Definition: a combination of halftone and line art, e.g., halftones containing line drawing, extensive lettering, color diagrams, etc.
- Combination artwork should have a minimum resolution of 600 dpi.
Color Art
- Color art is free of charge for online publication.
- If black and white will be shown in the print version, make sure that the main information will still be visible. Many colors are not distinguishable from one another when converted to black and white. A simple way to check this is to make a xerographic copy to see if the necessary distinctions between the different colors are still apparent.
- If the figures will be printed in black and white, do not refer to color in the captions.
- Color illustrations should be submitted as RGB (8 bits per channel).
Figure Lettering
- To add lettering, it is best to use Helvetica or Arial (sans serif fonts).
- Keep lettering consistently sized throughout your final-sized artwork, usually about 2–3 mm (8–12 pt).
- Variance of type size within an illustration should be minimal, e.g., do not use 8-pt type on an axis and 20-pt type for the axis label.
- Avoid effects such as shading, outline letters, etc.
- Do not include titles or captions within your illustrations.
Figure Numbering
- All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
- Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
- Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.).
- If an appendix appears in your article and it contains one or more figures, continue the consecutive numbering of the main text. Do not number the appendix figures, "A1, A2, A3, etc." Figures in online appendices (Electronic Supplementary Material) should, however, be numbered separately.
Figure Captions
- Each figure should have a concise caption describing accurately what the figure depicts. Include the captions in the text file of the manuscript, not in the figure file.
- Figure captions begin with the term Fig. in bold type, followed by the figure number, also in bold type.
- No punctuation is to be included after the number, nor is any punctuation to be placed at the end of the caption.
- Identify all elements found in the figure in the figure caption; and use boxes, circles, etc., as coordinate points in graphs.
- Identify previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference citation at the end of the figure caption.
Figure Placement and Size
- When preparing your figures, size figures to fit in the column width.
- For most journals the figures should be 39 mm, 84 mm, 129 mm, or 174 mm wide and not higher than 234 mm.
- For books and book-sized journals, the figures should be 80 mm or 122 mm wide and not higher than 198 mm.
Permissions
If you include figures that have already been published elsewhere, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format. Please be aware that some publishers do not grant electronic rights for free and that Springer will not be able to refund any costs that may have occurred to receive these permissions. In such cases, material from other sources should be used.
Accessibility
In order to give people of all abilities and disabilities access to the content of your figures, please make sure that
- All figures have descriptive captions (blind users could then use a text-to-speech software or a text-to-Braille hardware)
- Patterns are used instead of or in addition to colors for conveying information (color-blind users would then be able to distinguish the visual elements)
- Any figure lettering has a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1
Electronic Supplementary Material
Springer accepts electronic multimedia files (animations, movies, audio, etc.) and other supplementary files to be published online along with an article or a book chapter. This feature can add dimension to the author's article, as certain information cannot be printed or is more convenient in electronic form.
Submission
- Supply all supplementary material in standard file formats.
- Please include in each file the following information: article title, journal name, author names; affiliation and e-mail address of the corresponding author.
- To accommodate user downloads, please keep in mind that larger-sized files may require very long download times and that some users may experience other problems during downloading.
Audio, Video, and Animations
- Always use MPEG-1 (.mpg) format.
Text and Presentations
- Submit your material in PDF format; .doc or .ppt files are not suitable for long-term viability.
- A collection of figures may also be combined in a PDF file.
Spreadsheets
- Spreadsheets should be converted to PDF if no interaction with the data is intended.
- If the readers should be encouraged to make their own calculations, spreadsheets should be submitted as .xls files (MS Excel).
Specialized Formats
- Specialized format such as .pdb (chemical), .wrl (VRML), .nb (Mathematica notebook), and .tex can also be supplied.
Collecting Multiple Files
- It is possible to collect multiple files in a .zip or .gz file.
Numbering
- If supplying any supplementary material, the text must make specific mention of the material as a citation, similar to that of figures and tables.
- Refer to the supplementary files as “Online Resource”, e.g., "... as shown in the animation (Online Resource 3)", “... additional data are given in Online Resource 4”.
- Name the files consecutively, e.g. “ESM_3.mpg”, “ESM_4.pdf”.
Captions
- For each supplementary material, please supply a concise caption describing the content of the file.
Processing of supplementary files
- Electronic supplementary material will be published as received from the author without any conversion, editing, or reformatting.
Accessibility
In order to give people of all abilities and disabilities access to the content of your supplementary files, please make sure that
- The manuscript contains a descriptive caption for each supplementary material
- Video files do not contain anything that flashes more than three times per second (so that users prone to seizures caused by such effects are not put at risk)
After acceptance
Upon acceptance of your article you will receive a link to the special Author Query Application at Springer’s web page where you can sign the Copyright Transfer Statement online and indicate whether you wish to order OpenChoice, offprints, or printing of figures in color.
Once the Author Query Application has been completed, your article will be processed and you will receive the proofs.
Open Choice
In addition to the normal publication process (whereby an article is submitted to the journal and access to that article is granted to customers who have purchased a subscription), Springer provides an alternative publishing option: Springer Open Choice. A Springer Open Choice article receives all the benefits of a regular subscription-based article, but in addition is made available publicly through Springer’s online platform SpringerLink. We regret that Springer Open Choice cannot be ordered for published articles.
Copyright transfer
Authors will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the Publisher (or grant the Publisher exclusive publication and dissemination rights). This will ensure the widest possible protection and dissemination of information under copyright laws.
Open Choice articles do not require transfer of copyright as the copyright remains with the author. In opting for open access, they agree to the Springer Open Choice Licence.
Offprints
Offprints can be ordered by the corresponding author.
Color illustrations
Online publication of color illustrations is free of charge. For color in the print version, authors will be expected to make a contribution towards the extra costs.
Proof reading
The purpose of the proof is to check for typesetting or conversion errors and the completeness and accuracy of the text, tables and figures. Substantial changes in content, e.g., new results, corrected values, title and authorship, are not allowed without the approval of the Editor.
After online publication, further changes can only be made in the form of an Erratum, which will be hyperlinked to the article.
Online First
The article will be published online after receipt of the corrected proofs. This is the official first publication citable with the DOI. After release of the printed version, the paper can also be cited by issue and page numbers.
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief
Christian S. Jensen (Coordinating)
Department of Computer Science
Aalborg University
Selma Lagerlöfs Vej 300
DK-9220 Aalborg Øst
Denmark
E-mail:csj@cs.aau.dk
Phone: +45-99 40 89 00
Fax: +45-99 40 97 98
Philip A. Bernstein
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399
USA
E-mail:philbe@microsoft.com
Phone: +1-425-706-2838
Fax: +1-425-708-2587
Kian-Lee Tan
Department of Computer Science
National University of Singapore
Computing 1, 13 Computing Drive
Singapore 117417
E-mail:tankl@comp.nus.edu.sg
Phone: +(65) 6516-2862
Fax: +(65) 6779-4580
Information Director
Klemens Böhm
University of Karlsruhe, Germany
E-mail:klemens.boehm@ipd.uka.de
Deputy Information Director
Christian von der Weth
University of Karlsruhe, Germany
E-mail:weth@ipd.uni-karlsruhe.de
Editorial Board
Amr El Abbadi
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
E-mail:amr@cs.ucsb.edu
Natassa Ailamaki
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
E-mail:anastasia.ailamaki@epfl.ch
Sihem Amer-Yahia
Yahoo!, USA
E-mail:sihem@yahoo-inc.com
Claudio Bettini
University of Milan, Italy
E-mail:bettini@dico.unimi.it
Michael Böhlen
Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
E-mail:boehlen@inf.unibz.it
Klemens Böhm
University of Karlsruhe, Germany
E-mail:klemens.boehm@ipd.uka.de
Athman Bouguettaya
CSIRO, Australia
E-mail:athman.bouguettaya@csiro.au
Peter Buneman
University of Edinburgh, UK
E-mail:opb@inf.ed.ac.uk
K. Selcuk Candan
Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
E-mail:candan@asu.edu
Tiziana Catarci
University of Roma, La Sapienza, Italy
E-mail:catarci@dis.uniroma1.it
Ugur Cetintemel
Brown University, USA
E-mail:ugur@cs.brown.edu
Sang Kyun Cha
Seoul National University, South Korea
E-mail:chask@snu.ac.kr
Michael Gertz
University of Heidelberg, Germany
E-mail:gertz@informatik.uni-heidelberg.de
Johannes Gehrke
Cornell University, USA
E-mail:johannes@cs.cornell.edu
Peter Haas
IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
E-mail:peterh@almaden.ibm.com
Jayant Haritsa
Indian Institute of Science (IIS), Bangalore, India
E-mail:haritsa@dsl.serc.iisc.ernet.in
Chris Jermaine
University of Florida, USA
E-mail:cjermain@cise.ufl.edu
Alfons Kemper
Technische Universität München, Germany
E-mail:alfons.kemper@in.tum.de
Hans-Peter Kriegel
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Germany
E-mail:kriegel@dbs.ifi.lmu.de
Ramamohanarao Kotagiri
University of Melbourne, Australia
E-mail:rao@cs.mu.oz.au or kotagiri@unimelb.edu.au
Wolfgang Lehner
Technical University of Dresden, Germany
E-mail:lehner@inf.tu-dresden.de
Ninghui Li
Purdue University, USA
E-mail:ninghui@cs.purdue.edu
Guy Lohman
IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
E-mail:lohman@almaden.ibm.com
Renee Miller
University of Toronto, Canada
E-mail:miller@cs.toronto.edu
Tova Milo
Tel Aviv University, Israel
E-mail:milo@cs.tau.ac.il
Dimitris Papadias
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
E-mail:dimitris@cs.ust.hk
Norman Paton
University of Manchester, UK
E-mail:norm@cs.man.ac.uk
Elke Rundensteiner
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
E-mail:rundenst@cs.wpi.edu
Thomas Seidl
RWTH Aachen, Germany
E-mail:seidl@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Cyrus Shahabi
University of Southern California, USA
E-mail:shahabi@usc.edu
Bhavani Thuraisingham
University of Texas at Dallas, USA
E-mail:bhavani.thuraisingham@utdallas.edu
David Toman
University of Waterloo, Canada
E-mail:david@uwaterloo.ca
Marianne Winslett
University of Illinois, USA
E-mail:winslett@cs.uiuc.edu
Jeffrey Xu Yu
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
E-mail:yu@se.cuhk.edu.hk
Haruo Yokota
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
E-mail:yokota@cs.titech.ac.jp
Carlo Zaniolo
University of California Los Angeles, USA
E-mail:zaniolo@cs.ucla.edu
Aoying Zhou
East China Normal University, China
E-mail:ayzhou@sei.ecnu.edu.cn
Xiaofang Zhou
University of Queensland, Australia
E-mail:zxf@csee.uq.edu.au
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