Rethinking the Conference Reviewing Process
Summary: Panel proposal addressing growing dissatisfaction with conference reviewing in database venues. Highlights a 'broken' process, aims to initiate and foster open dialogue on issues, and urges concrete changes for SIGMOD/VLDB/CIDR/PODS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Michael J. Franklin (University of California Berkeley)
- 2. Jennifer Widom (Stanford University)
- 3. Anastassia Ailamaki (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 4. Philip A. Bernstein (Microsoft)
- 5. David DeWitt (University of Wisconsin)
- 6. Alon Halevy (University of Washington)
- 7. Zachary Ives (University of Pennsylvania)
- 8. Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{franklin_sigmod04,
title = {{Rethinking the Conference Reviewing Process}},
author = {Franklin, Michael J. and Widom, Jennifer and Ailamaki, Anastassia and Bernstein, Philip A. and DeWitt, David and Halevy, Alon and Ives, Zachary and Weikum, Gerhard},
series = {{SIGMOD} '04},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1007568.1007720},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1007568.1007720},
year = {2004}
}
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