期刊名称：ACM TRANSACTIONS ON DATABASE SYSTEMS
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ISSN： | 0362-5915
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版本： | SCI-CDE
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出版频率： | Quarterly
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出版社： | ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, 1515 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY, 10036
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出版社网址： | http://www.acm.org/
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期刊网址： | http://www.acm.org/tods/
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影响因子： | 1.613(2008) |
| 主题范畴： | COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING |
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) is part of the family of journals produced by the ACM. TODS publishes one volume yearly. Each volume is comprised of four issues, which appear in March, June, September and December.
The ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) publishes original archival papers in the area of databases and closely related disciplines. The majority of the papers that have appeared in TODS address the logical and technical foundation of data management.
The international Editorial Board is composed of recognized experts in the various subareas of this field, all with a commitment to maintain TODS as the premier publication in this active field. Papers can be submitted directly to any of the editors. The Editorial Board maintains contact with ACM's Special Interest Group on Management and Organization of Data (SIGMOD), as well as with other societies, to encourage submittal of advanced and original papers. When appropriate, concise results may be submitted as technical notes; technical comments on earlier publications are welcome as well.
The ACM Transactions on Database Systems was founded by David K. Hsiao, with the first issue appearing in March, 1975; Robert W. Taylor took over the editorship five years later and Gio Wiederhold five years after that. Won Kim served from 1992 for nine years, maintaining the excellence of the journal while increasing coverage of systems-related issues and decreasing the time to publication. Richard T. Snodgrass, the current Editor-in-Chief, took over in July, 2001.
In the twenty-five years of its existence, TODS has evolved to become the premier database journal. Summarizing a citation analysis of database literature, considering over 100,000 citations, the web page http://www.acm.org/sigmod/dblp/db/about/top.html lists the top-cited papers and books. Thirty TODS papers appear on this list; 31 papers were from all other journals combined. TODS also dominated all conferences. The top-cited database paper of all time, Peter P.-S. Chen's "The Entity-Relationship Model," appeared in the inaugural issue of TODS.
TODS fares similarly well in a summary of estimated impact from the Research Index database (http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/impact.html), which ranked journals according to their average citation rate. TODS was judged the database journal with the most impact, appearing in the top four percent of the 800-odd journals and conferences analyzed.
These measures of impact correlate with journal accessibility (the causality probably goes both ways). Of course, the journal (including all past issues) appears in the ACM Digital Library and is thus available to the many individual and institutional DL subscribers. TODS is also included in the SIGMOD Anthology and SIGMOD Digital Symposium Collection CDROM publications. 5000 copies of the Anthology and DiSC have been sent all over the world. These disparate media (print, web, CDROM, DVDROM), widely distributed, ensure that TODS articles are easily available to database researchers.
The existence of TODS has helped to define the field of database research. It encompasses the development, formalization, and validation of abstractions and models to describe database applications and the design and implementation methods for organizing and processing data on computer hardware.
TODS welcomes papers on a full range of database research in the management of diverse forms of data. Such subjects include: data modeling, database languages, database theory, query processing, access methods and indexing, security and privacy, transaction management, fault tolerance, distribution, performance, data storage, data mining, and novel applications and infrastructures exploiting database technology.
TODS encourages papers that explore the above subjects in the context of large distributed networks of computers, parallel or multiprocessing computers, or new data devices (including data storage devices, data capture devices, and data presentation devices). TODS also encourages papers that describe emerging data-intensive applications that cannot be satisfied by the current database technology.
TODS welcomes papers that both lay theoretical foundations for database management and those that provide new insights into the design and implementation of large-scale database management systems, database application development tools, database access interface tools, and database connectivity tools for heterogeneous database systems. TODS also accepts papers that describe user and database administration experiences and issues in large-scale real-world database installations. The emphasis on integration of theory and practice is an attempt to encourage authors of theory papers to consider applicability and/or implementability of the theoretical results, while encouraging authors of systems papers to reflect on the theoretical results that may have been used in building the systems and/or to offer suggestions on issues that may require theoretical treatment.
TODS also solicits focused surveys on topics relevant to TODS. These should be deep and will sometimes be quite narrow, but should make a contribution to our understanding of an important area or subarea of databases. More general surveys that are intended for a broad-based Computer Science audience or surveys that may influence other areas of computing research should continue to go to ACM Computing Surveys. Brief surveys on recent developments in database research are more appropriate for ACM SIGMOD Record. TODS surveys should be educational to the database audience by presenting a relatively well-established body of database research.
For additional information on the types of papers TODS will accept, see Editorial Guidelines.
In terms of the ACM Computing Reviews (1998) classification, the primary area of TODS is all of area H (Information Systems), with a strong focus on subarea H2 (Database Management). Articles in subarea H4 (Information Systems Applications) would be appropriate only if there were a strong scientific basis in database technology.
Database systems may employ Specialized Languages (D.3.2) and unique Datatypes and Structures (D.3.3). Effective information retrieval and management require inferential power, and important advances are being made in this area. Topics Deduction and Theorem Proving (I.2.3), Knowledge Representation Formalisms and Methods (I.2.4), Learning (I.2.6), and Problem Solving, Control Methods, and Search (I.2.8) are all relevant when they are applied to large collections of data.
Since files provide a foundation for databases, the topic of Files (E.5) is covered as well, and many papers expand on operating system concerns, Storage M
Instructions to Authors
Manuscript Preparation
Editorial Guidelines
1. TODS will encourage submissions which have not been published or submitted in any form elsewhere, and submissions which may significantly contribute to opening up new and potentially important areas of research and development. TODS will do this by giving earliest possible publication dates for such submissions once they have been accepted. The Associate Editors, with recommendation from the reviewers, will determine submissions that fall into these categories and recommend them to the Editor-in-Chief, who will make the final determination.
2. TODS will foster closer fusion of theory and systems by strongly encouraging the authors of theory papers to indicate applications and implementation considerations/consequences, and the authors of systems papers to indicate the use of existing theoretical results and to point to possible theoretical research issues.
3. TODS will publish outstanding papers which are "major value-added extensions" of papers previously published in conferences; that is, TODS will not automatically reject papers that are major extensions to previously published conference papers. These papers will go through the normal review process.
4. TODS will make papers more easily readable by strongly encouraging authors to include examples where appropriate and to make greater efforts to target their presentation to a broader audience than specialists doing current research in the topical areas of the papers.
5. TODS will attempt to significantly reduce the time from first-submission to publication. TODS editors will try to return reviews for a submission in each review cycle within six months of receipt of the submission. TODS editors will also regard a submission to have been withdrawn if its required revision is not submitted within six months of the revision notification.
6. TODS will discourage excessively long papers (longer than 50 double-spaced pages including figures, references, etc.), and unnecessary digressions even in shorter papers. This is to motivate the authors to bring out the essence of their papers more clearly, to make it easier for the reviewers and readers, and to allow TODS to publish more papers in any given issue.
7. In a similar vein, TODS encourages shorter submissions, including even very short (say, five page) submissions. The primary criterion for acceptance is improving on the state-of-the-art in some significant way.
8. TODS will adopt the ACM Computing Surveys' style of references; that is, references will be labeled by authors' names and years of publication, rather than by numbers.
9. The editor processing a paper normally assigns three reviewers to a paper. Reviewers provide advice to the editor to help him/her to reach an editorial decision on the paper; the editor's decision may differ from the consensus of the reviewers. If the editor can ascertain early that a submission is a clear-reject (through an early-arriving review, editor's own reading, etc.), the editor may stop the review process, without collecting all reviews.
10. The TODS Editorial Board is committed to providing an editorial decision within six months, starting with papers submitted in April 2002. This turnaround time is defined to start with the day the paper was physically received by an Editor, if sent by post, or the day it was emailed or submitted electronically, and extends to the day the decision was sent to the author. It is expected that the average turnaround time will be even shorter, so prospective authors can expect a fast review of their submission.
11. TODS will publish occasional special issues to provide a timely boost to promising areas of research and development, or a timely consolidation of the results in other areas. Guest editors will be invited to organize such issues.
12. TODS also publishes focused surveys. These should be deep and will sometimes be quite narrow, but would make a contribution to our understanding of an important area or subarea of databases, broadly defined. More general surveys that are intended for a broad-based Computer Science audience or surveys that may influence other areas of computing research should continue to go to ACM Computing Surveys. Brief surveys on recent developments in database research are more appropriate for SIGMOD Record. TODS surveys should be educational to database audiences by presenting a relatively well-established body of database research. Surveys can summarize prior literature on a theoretical or systems research topic, or can explain approaches implemented in commercial systems. A survey of the former type summarizes a literature on a particular subject, presenting a new way of understanding how the papers in this literature fit together. A survey of the latter type summarizes the best industrial art, and can be acceptable even if it represents no new contribution over what has been used in industry for years, if the paper's content is not to be found in the published literature.
Types of Papers
The ACM Transactions on Database Systems publishes original archival papers in the area of databases and closely related disciplines. (See the Editorial Charter for further details.) Submitted papers are judged primarily on originality and relevance, but effective presentation is also critical. Contributions should conform to generally accepted practices for scientific papers with respect to organization and style.
TODS also publishes focused surveys. These should be deep and will sometimes be quite narrow, but would make a contribution to our understanding of an important area or subarea of databases, broadly defined. More general surveys that are intended for a broad-based Computer Science audience or surveys that may influence other areas of computing research should continue to go to ACM Computing Surveys. Brief surveys on recent developments in database research are more appropriate for SIGMOD Record. TODS surveys should be educational to database audience by presenting a relatively well-established body of database research.
Finally, TODS welcomes submissions that review, critique, correct, or expand on a paper previously published in TODS. Such submissions will go through the standard formal review. Where appropriate, the author(s) of the original paper will be given an opportunity to respond, with their own submission. (As an example, in TODS Volume 8, Issue 4 (December 1983), William Kent responds to a paper by Aho, Beeri and Ullman. In that same issue, Ullman responds to Kent's technical correspondence.)
Prior Publication PolicyThe technical contributions appearing in ACM journals are normally original papers which have not been published elsewhere. Widely disseminated conference proceedings and newsletters are a form of publication.
A submission based on a paper appearing elsewhere must have major value-added extensions to the version that appears elsewhere. For conference papers, there is little scientific merit in simply sending the submitted version to a journal once the paper has been accepted for the conference. The authors learn little from this, and the scientific community gains little.
The submitted manuscript should have at least 30% new material. The new material should be content material, not just the addition of obvious proofs or a few more straightforward performance figures. The submitted manuscript affords an opportunity to describe the novel approach in more depth, to consider the alternatives more comprehensively, and to delve into some of the issues listed in the other paper as future work. At the same time, it is not required that the submitted manuscript contain all of the material from the published paper. To the contrary: only enough material need be included from the published paper to set the context and render the new material comprehensible.
The corresponding author of a TODS submission must inform the editor handling that submission about any paper by any author of the TODS submission that (a) is in submission, (b) has been accepted for publication, or (c) has been published, that overlaps significantly (more than a page or so) with the TODS submission. Such papers in categories (b) and (c) should be referenced by the TODS submission and discussed in the related work section, as appropriate. The corresponding author should also inform the editor about any overlaps that occur while the paper is under consideration by TODS. In all cases, the Editor will make the determination as to whether the overlap is acceptable.
Manuscript Format
To ensure proper indexing, classification, retrieval and dissemination, authors must include the following in the manuscript.
- Descriptive title
- Author names and affiliations
- Abstract
- Content indicators
- Citations to relevant literature
Submission for Editorial Review
How to SubmitRegular papers and surveys should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief, Richard T. Snodgrass. Please indicate whether your submission is a regular paper or a survey.
- Submission by uploading a PostScript or PDF file is the preferred method. To submit a paper, please use the file upload submission form.
- One acceptable form of electronic submission is by posting the paper first at the Computing Research Repository (CoRR) and subsequently sending the archive identifier by email to tods@acm.org. Please read the page of CoRR submissions for more information.
- To submit by postal mail, five paper copies of the manuscript intended for publication and a single, submittal letter signed by the author, should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief at the following address.
Richard T. Snodgrass
TODS Editor-in-Chief
Department of Computer Science
University of Arizona
P.O. Box 210077
Tucson, AZ 85721-0077
Tel: (520) 621-6370
FAX: (520) 621-4246 When appropriate, the paper should be accompanied by a customs declaration reading "educational material - no commercial value." If a street address is needed for delivery, please use (in addition to the above address) "711 Gould Simpson Building, Fourth Street." Authors should keep editors informed of changes of address. Papers will be refereed in the manner customary with scientific journals before being accepted for publication. It you have any questions, please contact the Editor-in-Chief, and always inform editors in your submission letters of any possible conflicts. Correspondence on editorial matters should be addressed to one of the editors. Correspondence regarding accepted papers should be sent to the following address.
Managing Editor
TODS
ACM
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
Review ProcessSubmitted papers are evaluated by anonymous referees for originality, relevance, and presentation. (Please see the TODS referee guidelines for more details.) The author will be notified of the name of an Associate Editor who will be responsible for the processing of the manuscript, and should address correspondence to that Associate Editor.
AppealsIf an author has concerns about how their paper was handled, that author should first bring those concerns to the Associate Editor who handled the processing of the paper. In almost all cases, any misunderstanding will be able to be resolved then. If the concern is not addressed, the author can ask the Associate Editor to turn over processing of the paper to the Editor-in-Chief. This is the Associate Editor's decision. Should the Associate Editor decide not to turn over the processing of the paper, the editorial decision will stand. Otherwise, the Editor-in-Chief will reexamine the materials, and make the final editorial decision.
If the concerns are still not adequately addressed, then the author can appeal to the Chair of the ACM Publications Board, in accordance with ACM policy.
Procedures for Accepted Papers
How to Prepare Final VersionOnce a manuscript is accepted, a final version must be submitted to the Editor who processed the paper for transmission to ACM for publication. Although this may be done on paper, electronic submission is highly encouraged. ACM provides for a wide variety of formats for such electronic submissions. Please refer to ACM's Guidelines for Submitting Accepted Articles for details. If the final manuscript is submitted in a format other than LaTeX, then a printed copy of the manuscript must also be sent to the Editor who processed the paper.
The Editor who processed the paper will send to ACM a cover letter notifying ACM of the paper's acceptance and all milestone dates regarding the processing of the paper.
Copyright and Use AgreementAuthors whose papers are accepted sign a form which transfers copyright to the ACM. This form will be sent by the Editor-in-Chief along with notification of acceptance. The completed form should be returned as indicated on the form. Authors retain liberal rights to material published by the ACM. The following is the standard copyright notice used by ACM journals :
Copyright (c) 200x by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or direct commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from Publications Dept, ACM Inc., fax +1 (212) 869-0481, or permissions@acm.org. Further details can be found at ACM Interim Copyright Policy.
Submittal of an algorithm for consideration for publication in Transactions on Database Systems implies that unrestricted use of the algorithm within a computer is permissible.
Page ChargesAuthor's institutions or corporations are requested to honor a page charge of $100.00 per printed page or part thereof, to help defray the cost of publication. Page charges apply to all contributions. Payment of page charges is not a condition of publication; editorial acceptance of a paper is unaffected by payment or nonpayment.
Editorial Board
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Editor-in-Chief
Associate Editors
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Peter Buneman |
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Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
200 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389
Tel: (215) 898-7703
FAX: (215) 898-0587
peter@cis.upenn.edu
www.cis.upenn.edu/~peter |
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Michael J. Carey |
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BEA Systems, Inc.
2315 North First Street
San Jose, CA 95131
Tel: 408-570-8599
FAX: 408-570-8946
carey@acm.org |
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Christian S. Jensen |
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Department of Computer Science
Aalborg University
Fredrik Bajers Vej 7E
DK-9220 Aalborg 豷t
Denmark
Tel: + 45 96 35 89 00
FAX: + 45 98 15 98 89
csj@cs.auc.dk
www.cs.auc.dk/~csj |
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Z. Meral 謟soyoglu |
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511 Olin Building
Department of Engineering Engineering and Computer Science
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH 44106-7071
Tel: 216-368-2818
Fax: (216) 368-2801
Dept: 216-368-2800
ozsoy@eecs.cwru.edu
hazel.cwru.edu |
TODS Information Director
Headquarters Quarterlies Staff
Jono Hardjowirogo
Mark Mandelbaum
Bernard Rous
Roma Simon
George Criscione
Irma Strolia
Ron Boisvert
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