Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Title	Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Discipline	Computer science
Publisher	VLDB Endowment
History	2008–present
Frequency	Monthly
Issn	2150-8097

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal publishing full research papers and proceedings associated with the Very Large Data Bases Endowment community. It serves researchers in database management systems, data mining, information retrieval, and related subfields, providing archival records of work presented at major venues such as VLDB 2008, SIGMOD 2010, ICDE 2012, and KDD 2015. The journal interfaces with institutions like the Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and industry labs including Google, Microsoft Research, Amazon Web Services, and IBM Research.

History

The title was established in 2008 under the aegis of the VLDB Endowment following trends set by events like ACM SIGMOD Conference and International Conference on Data Engineering. Early governance involved figures affiliated with University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of California, Berkeley, University of Toronto, ETH Zurich, and Carnegie Mellon University. Throughout the 2010s editorial leadership collaborated with editorial boards drawn from Princeton University, University of Washington, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and corporate researchers from Oracle Corporation and Facebook. Milestones include indexing in services similar to Scopus and Web of Science and alignment with conference programs such as VLDB 2011, SIGMOD 2013, and ICDE 2017.

Scope and Content

The journal covers topics often featured at VLDB Conference, including query processing evaluated against benchmarks like TPC-C and YCSB, storage systems studied by teams at Google Research, Microsoft Research Redmond, and Amazon engineers, plus theory contributions in areas associated with groups at MIT CSAIL, Princeton COS, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, and University of Oxford. Articles report experimental systems from projects at Facebook AI Research, Alibaba Group, and Tencent, as well as algorithmic innovations linked to scholars at ETH Zurich, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and Bell Labs. Cross-disciplinary work connects to datasets and testbeds used by DARPA programs, collaborations with European Research Council grantees, and software artifacts maintained by organizations like the Linux Foundation and Apache Software Foundation.

Publication and Editorial Process

Manuscripts undergo rigorous peer review coordinated by an editorial board composed of academics from Stanford University, University of California, San Diego, University of Maryland, College Park, University of British Columbia, and industry researchers from Intel Corporation and NVIDIA. The process mirrors practices at ACM Transactions on Database Systems and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering with initial editorial triage, double-blind or single-blind review cycles, and decisions managed in systems akin to EasyChair or Editorial Manager. Special issues and fast-track papers have been overseen by guest editors affiliated with Columbia University, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, and Cornell University.

Indexing and Impact

The journal is indexed alongside titles such as Communications of the ACM, Journal of the ACM, and IEEE Transactions on Computers in major bibliographic services including Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science. Citation metrics are compared with conferences like SIGMOD, ICDE, KDD, and NeurIPS; influential papers have been cited by researchers at Harvard University, Yale University, University of Chicago, New York University, and California Institute of Technology. The Endowment’s proceedings have contributed to award-winning research recognized by prizes such as the ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award, VLDB Best Paper Award, and community honors presented at Strata Data Conference and RecSys.

Conferences and Special Issues

The periodical is closely associated with flagship meetings including VLDB Conference, with selected papers forming special issues tied to events such as VLDB 2014, VLDB 2016, and VLDB 2019. Guest-edited collections have focused on themes aligned with KDD Conference tracks, SIGMOD Research Highlights, and workshops sponsored by NSF and EPSRC. Collaborations with regional conferences like EDBT and summer schools organized by INRIA and Max Planck Society have resulted in curated issues showcasing emerging topics from groups at Università di Pisa, University of Bologna, and University of Rome".

Access and Distribution

Distribution channels include subscription access through libraries at institutions such as University of Michigan, University of California, Imperial College London, and research consortia like CERN and The British Library. Digital dissemination employs platforms used by publishers partnered with professional societies such as ACM, IEEE Computer Society, and Springer Nature; manuscripts are discoverable via aggregators like DBLP, CrossRef, and Semantic Scholar. Open access policies have been discussed in the context of mandates from funders including the European Commission, Wellcome Trust, and national agencies such as the National Science Foundation.

Category:Computer science journals