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- articleJanuary 2024
Peer-Reviewing Processes and Incentives: Data Management Community Survey Results
- Alexandra Meliou,
- Sourav Bhowmick,
- Karl Aberer,
- Divy Agrawal,
- Angela Bonifati,
- Vanessa Braganholo,
- Floris Geerts,
- Wolfgang Lehner,
- Divesh Srivastava
Reviewing papers for conferences is an important and hard task that brings several challenges. The Data Management community has been increasingly struggling with high reviewer load, low-quality reviews and low reviewer engagement, unethical reviewing ...
- articleJanuary 2024
Once upon a Time, in a Computer Engineering Department ....
When I read Tamer's introduction, talking about advice from senior researchers, I had to agree that I am now, indeed in that category. I am presently department chair and used to be vice-rector in the past, acting more like a manager than a researcher. ...
- articleJuly 2022
Teaching about Data and Databases: Why, What, How?
The panel on data(base) education at VLDB2021 [13] drew attention to important challenges in choosing how database classes are constructed for students in a world where data is being used in novel and impactful settings. This paper aims to present one ...
- articleJuly 2022
OpenDS4All: Accelerating the Creation of Data Science Curricula at Academic Institutions
Over the past decade, the interest in data science careers has been unwavering. In 2001, Linkedin ranked data science specialists as one of its top jobs, and noted that hiring for these roles have grown nearly 46 percent since 2019. Yet there is still a ...
- research-articleDecember 2021
VLDB Panel Summary: "The Future of Data(base) Education: Is the Cow Book Dead?"
Database education is at an inflection point. With the surge of interest in all things "data", enrollments in traditional database courses are at an all time high. At the same time, the rise of Data Science as a discipline has led to the creation of new ...
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- review-articleMay 2016
Participant Privacy in Mobile Crowd Sensing Task Management: A Survey of Methods and Challenges
Mobile crowd sensing enables a broad range of novel applications by leveraging mobile devices and smartphone users worldwide. While this paradigm is immensely useful, it involves the collection of detailed information from sensors and their carriers (...
- columnMay 2013
Intel "big data" science and technology center vision and execution plan
Intel has moved to a collaboration model with universities consisting of "Science and Technology Centers" (ISTCs). These are located at a "hub" university with participation from other universities, contain embedded Intel personnel, and are focused on ...
- columnApril 2012
The curriculum forecast for Portland: cloudy with a chance of data
With the advent of cloud computing, new data management technologies and systems have emerged that differ from existing databases in important ways. As a consequence, universities are currently facing the challenge of integrating these topics into their ...
- research-articleMay 2011
Paper bricks: an alternative to complete-story peer reviewing
The peer review system as used in several computer science communities has several flaws including long review times, overloaded reviewers, as well as fostering of niche topics. These flaws decrease quality, lower impact, slowdown the innovation process,...
- research-articleMarch 2009
How NOT to review a paper: the tools and techniques of the adversarial reviewer
There are several useful guides available for how to review a paper in Computer Science [10, 6, 12, 7, 2]. These are soberly presented, carefully reasoned and sensibly argued. As a result, they are not much fun. So, as a contrast, this note is a ...
- research-articleSeptember 2008
The conference reviewing crisis and a proposed solution
In Computer Science, we have developed a vibrant conference culture, which has served us well thus far. However, with the growth of our field, the number of submissions to many conferences has sky-rocketed, leading to a downward spiral in reviewing ...
- research-articleSeptember 2008
Paper and proposal reviews: is the process flawed?
- Henry F. Korth,
- Philip A. Bernstein,
- Mary Fernandez,
- Le Gruenwald,
- Phokion G. Kolaitis,
- Kathryn McKinley,
- Tamer Ozsu
At the 2008 Computing Research Association Conference at Snowbird, the authors participated in a panel addressing the issue of paper and proposal reviews. This short paper summarizes the panelists' presentations and audience commentary. It concludes ...