PODS 2002

21st ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems

Madison, Wisconsin

• Register the paper and submit a short abstract no later than 5:00 p.m. PST, Friday, November 2, 2001. Use the ConfMan interface at PODS 2002 Paper Registration.

  By filling the appropriate fields in the registration form, please also provide the contact author information, keyword information, and indicate whether the paper is eligible for the Best Newcomer Award.

• After registering the paper, you will receive an automatic reply in which you will be provided with a URL.

  Use the URL provided in the automatic reply to upload your paper no later than 5:00 p.m. PST, Friday, November 9, 2001. Papers must be uploaded in postscript or in PDF format.

• Electronic submission of both short abstracts and papers is strongly preferred. If an electronic submission is not possible, send one copy of the short abstract and 6 copies of the paper to:
  Phokion G. Kolaitis   (kolaitis@cs.ucsc.edu )
  Computer Science Department
  University of California, Santa Cruz
  Santa Cruz, CA 95064, U.S.A.

Submission format:

Papers: The address, telephone number, FAX number, and e-mail address of the contact author should appear on the title page of the submission.  Submissions should be limited to 10 pages (with font size at least 11 pts) and may consist of extended abstracts.  Each submission  must provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess its merits and should include appropriate references to and comparisons with the literature.  It is recommended that each submission begin with a succinct statement of the problem, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance and relevance to the conference, all suited for the non-specialist.  Technical development of the work, directed to the specialist, should follow.  If the authors believe more details are necessary to substantiate the main claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix to be read at the discretion of the committee.

Awards:

Best Newcomer Award:  An award will be given to the best submission, as judged by the program committee, written solely by authors who have never published in earlier PODS proceedings.

Best Paper Award:  There will also be an award for the best of all papers submitted, as judged by the program committee.

The program committee reserves the right to give both awards to the same paper, not to give an award, or to split an award among several papers.  Papers authored or  co-authored by program committee members are not eligible for an award.

Last updated: 9/26/2001 (by PhK)