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Approved August 14, 2002
Amended October 22, 2003
- Selection of the invited PODS papers will be done by the PODS PC chair,
on the bases of high quality and perceived feasibility of being extended
into submissions to JACM and TODS.
- Following selection of the papers, the distribution of the invited papers
between JACM and TODS will be decided jointly by the PODS PC chair and
designated area editors from JACM and TODS. It is possible that a paper
may be dropped from the list in this discussion. Authors will not be
given a choice between being invited by JACM or by TODS, but an author
can certainly decide to ignore the invited submission and submit their
paper somewhere else.
Roughly speaking, two criteria will be used to make the decision.
- Papers in JACM are intended to be of broad general appeal and papers
in TODS are intended primarily for a database audience.
- The more theoretical papers are more appropriate for JACM and the
more systems-ish papers are appropriate for TODS.
The first criterion will be given more weight than the second.
A minimum of 0 and a maximum of 8 papers will be selected for invitation.
- The JACM and TODS EiCs will then invite submission of extended versions
of the selected papers. The invitation will be co-signed by the PODS PC
chair, and will state that the papers were selected in consultation with
the PC chair.
Note that TODS requires at least 30% new material. The new material
should be content material, not just the addition of obvious proofs or a
few more straightforward performance figures. (See the
relevant
TODS guidelines for authors).
- These submissions will be reviewed in the normal manner, but reviewers
will be told that the submission was invited upon the recommendation of
the PODS PC chair and the Area Editor. Acceptance is not guaranteed. The
review will be handled by the Area Editor or other associate editor of
the journal. The editor handling the paper will be responsible for
choosing the reviewers; however, it is expected that at least two of the
reviewers will be ones who reviewed the original PODS submission.
- There will be an accelerated review and resubmission schedule with the
goal of having the papers appear together not too distant from the
original conference.
For TODS the schedule is given below.
| June 22 |
PODS Program Chair forwards nominated papers to TODS EiC,
immediately after the conference
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| June 29 |
TODS EiC invites submissions, due October 1
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| October 1 | Receive submission |
| February | First review completed, taking four months |
| May | Second submission, within three months of receiving the review |
| August | Second review completed, taking three months |
| September | Final revision, within a month of the review |
| December | Paper appears, with a production of three months |
This is a very tight schedule. Any paper not meeting this schedule can
appear in a subsequent issue. For TODS it is hoped that the December
issue will be a joint SIGMOD/PODS special issue/section.
At some point ACM will adopt a completely online publication
process, in which papers can be "published" (i.e., put on the DL)
as they are accepted. This will allow the schedule to be relaxed.
We expect that all the papers in the issue will be in one
virtual volume.
- The special issue (or special section of this issue) can include a
short foreword by the PODS PC chair (for TODS, perhaps jointly authored
by the SIGMOD PC chair).
- A paper rejected from one journal may be considered for the other
journal only if the author, the PODS PC chair, and both area editors
agree. Generally this will be done only if the technical quality was
not questioned and if the main reason for rejection was that the paper
was in some way inappropriate for the original journal.
- Conflicts of interest will be handled as usual -- if an area editor
has a conflict with an invited paper, then the paper will be handled by the
editor-in-chief or by another editor designated by the EiC.
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