ICDE Related Work
Use this to audit novelty and eligibility. Reopen the current call for the original-work and
prior-publication rules before advising authors.
Positioning checks
- Separate genuine novelty (a new mechanism, access method, protocol, or primitive) from
engineering delta (a faster implementation of a known idea). ICDE rewards the former;
the latter needs an unusually strong evaluation to survive.
- Run a reinvention audit against the deep database canon. Because data management has a
fifty-year literature, a "new" index or join often has a 1980s or 1990s ancestor; find it and
state the difference, or a reviewer will.
- Cover both the research venues and shipping systems. ICDE reviewers expect you to know
the relevant production databases, not just papers; ignoring a system that already does what
you claim is a recognizable reject pattern.
- Because ICDE is single-blind, cite your own prior work directly and link repositories
freely — there is no anonymity to preserve in the bibliography.
- State overlap with any prior short/workshop version honestly; the original-work rule bars work
already published beyond a few double-column pages.
The venue-ring coverage table
| Literature lane |
Typical sources |
What ICDE reviewers check |
| Core database venues |
ICDE, SIGMOD, VLDB/PVLDB, EDBT |
Whether the nearest system is compared or explicitly distinguished |
| Journals |
IEEE TKDE, The VLDB Journal, ACM TODS |
Whether the journal-length predecessor of your idea is acknowledged |
| Systems venues |
OSDI, SOSP, FAST, ATC |
Whether a systems-community mechanism you rebuild is credited |
| Shipping systems |
Commercial and open-source databases |
Whether a production system already provides your primitive |
A bibliography citing only recent conference papers tells a builder-heavy committee that a
known technique may be getting rediscovered — no throughput number repairs that impression.
The concurrency question at ICDE
- ICDE's two-round calendar and the tight ICDE/SIGMOD/VLDB overlap mean genuinely concurrent
work is common. For independently concurrent papers, cite neutrally, state the technical
difference, and avoid priority claims a reviewer cannot check.
- If a near-identical result appeared at a sibling venue between your rounds, address it head-on
rather than hoping the reviewers missed it — they did not.
Positioning vignette
A paper proposes a latch-free variant of a classic index. Its nearest neighbors: the original
B-tree literature, a recent SIGMOD lock-free structure, and a production key-value store's
internal index. The novelty sentence must name all three contrasts — a new mechanism the
classic design lacked, a different hardware assumption from the SIGMOD variant, and a capability
the production store does not expose — so the delta is unmistakable.
Overlap judgment calls
- Your own workshop or short-paper version: usually citable, but confirm it stays under the
original-work threshold and declare it.
- When unsure whether a prior venue counts as prior publication, declare the overlap in the
submission form rather than gambling on a chair's reading.
Output format
[Eligibility] clear / needs declaration / risky
[Novelty type] new-mechanism / engineering-delta
[Closest lanes] <core-DB / journal / systems / shipping-system>
[Nearest 3 works] <work -> specific distinction>
[Reinvention risk] <ancestor found? y/n>
[Novelty sentence] <ICDE-ready contribution contrast>
