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GitHub用于评估论文是否适合投递ACM SIGMOD会议，提供定位、重构、证据缺口分析及拒稿风险评估。适用于数据库系统领域稿件的 venue selection 和 submission strategy 制定。
Trigger Scenarios
作者指定SIGMOD为目标会议
需进行数据库系统论文的会议适配性评估
将期刊或arXiv稿件重构为会议风格
需要针对该会议的匿名性、实验或反驳策略诊断
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acm-sigmod-international-conference-on-management-of-data -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "acm-sigmod-international-conference-on-management-of-data",
"description": "Use when targeting ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes conference fit, framing, evidence bar, submission-cycle checks, rebuttal posture, and desk-reject risks for database flagship."
}
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
Conference positioning
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) is a top computer-science conference venue for database systems, query processing, data management, transactions, data lakes, and ML for data systems. It rewards a data-management paper with strong systems or algorithmic contribution and realistic workloads. Treat this skill as a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool for conference submission strategy, not as a substitute for the current year's CFP, author kit, ethics policy, or submission portal.
Because CS conferences change deadlines, templates, page limits, review workflow, artifact rules, AI-use policy, and rebuttal formats every cycle, always verify the live official instructions before making a submission-ready recommendation. Start from the official source anchor recorded for this venue in ../../resources/conference-roster.md and ../../resources/official-source-map.md.
When to trigger
- The author names SIGMOD / ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data as the target venue.
- A manuscript in database systems needs a conference-fit read before being formatted or submitted.
- The paper must be re-framed from journal style or arXiv style into a selective CS conference narrative.
- The author needs an evidence-gap, anonymity, artifact, rebuttal, or re-routing diagnosis for this venue.
Scope & topic fit
- Core fit: database systems, query processing, data management, transactions, data lakes, and ML for data systems.
- Best submissions make a precise contribution type visible: algorithm, theorem, system, dataset, benchmark, empirical finding, design artifact, tool, or socio-technical analysis.
- The paper should explain why the result matters to SIGMOD's reviewers, not just why it is interesting to the authors' lab or product context.
- Position related work against the most recent conference-cycle papers in this venue and its closest siblings; stale comparisons are a common early-review weakness.
- If the contribution is interdisciplinary, state which part is CS research and which part is domain evidence.
Venue-specific calibration
- Reviewer lens: Read reviewers as data-management specialists. Query processing, transactions, storage, workload realism, and system architecture must be clear.
- Contribution hook to foreground: the venue-specific contribution bar.
- Scope vocabulary to use naturally in the abstract and introduction: database systems, query processing, data management, transactions, data lakes, and ML for data systems.
- Distinctive fingerprint for reviewer calibration: database, query, processing, data, management, transactions, lakes, venue-specific, contribution, flagship, sigmod.
- Official anchor domain: sigmod.org. Quote annual rules only after opening that source and the current-year CFP/author kit.
Close-neighbor routing guardrail
- Route to SIGMOD when the contribution is database systems, query processing, data management, transactions, indexing, or large-scale data infrastructure with systems evidence.
- Do not route generic data-mining or ML papers here. Compare VLDB/PVLDB for database research with its own submission mechanics and ICDE for data-engineering scope.
What distinguishes this venue from its closest siblings
- What SIGMOD is. The ACM SIGMOD flagship for data management systems — query processing, storage, transactions, and systems.
- vs VLDB. VLDB publishes continuously via PVLDB (Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment) with a rolling model; SIGMOD has a conference-cycle deadline. Same field, different submission machinery.
- Routing. Both are top DB venues; pick by submission model/cycle, and send theory to PODS, data mining to KDD/ICDM.
SIGMOD-specific routing detail
- Prefer SIGMOD when the paper is flagship data-management research: query processing, transactions, storage engines, data integration, systems, analytics, or database theory with systems relevance.
- Route VLDB when the cycle/community fit is better, ICDE for broader data engineering, and KDD/ICDM for mining methods rather than database-system contributions.
- SIGMOD evidence should show database architecture, workload realism, scalability, correctness/consistency properties, and comparison to mature data-management systems.
Method & evidence bar
- For systems/data papers, use realistic workloads, data sizes, and baselines; for theory papers, give exact statements and complete proofs.
- Explain the data model, assumptions, complexity, and implementation details at the level reviewers can audit.
- Connect the result to a durable database, algorithmic, or theoretical problem rather than a one-off benchmark.
- For SIGMOD, the evidence must support the venue-specific signature: a data-management paper with strong systems or algorithmic contribution and realistic workloads.
- Include limitations, negative results, compute/resource reporting, data provenance, and ethics details when they affect the claim.
Structure & house style
- Lead with the formal or systems problem and the new capability the paper creates.
- Use figures or examples to make the model clear before dense proof or system detail.
- Use the current official template exactly; do not guess page limits, font sizes, supplement rules, anonymity exceptions, or camera-ready requirements from old cycles.
- The introduction should answer: problem, why now, what is new, why this venue, and what evidence proves the claim.
- Put the strongest result in the main paper, not only in the appendix or supplement; reviewers should not have to reconstruct the contribution.
Official-cycle checklist
- Open the live official venue page: https://sigmod.org/
- Re-check the current cycle's CFP, author kit, submission system, abstract/paper deadlines, page limits, supplementary-material rules, anonymity policy, dual-submission policy, ethics policy, AI-use policy, artifact/code/data expectations, rebuttal/author-response format, and camera-ready requirements.
- Confirm the review workflow and portal: OpenReview / CMT / HotCRP / PCS / START or society portal, as specified for the current cycle.
- Check whether accepted papers require in-person presentation, separate registration, artifact badges, proceedings copyright, or post-acceptance release forms.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- One sentence states why this manuscript belongs at SIGMOD, using the venue's scope rather than generic "top conference" language.
- The claim is calibrated to the evidence: no broader than the datasets, proofs, systems, user studies, deployments, or threat model support.
- Related work includes the nearest current-cycle database flagship papers and explains the technical delta.
- The paper satisfies the current official template, anonymity, ethics, artifact, and rebuttal requirements.
- The main paper is self-contained enough for reviewers to evaluate novelty and correctness without hunting through external links.
Common desk-reject triggers
- Benchmark gains with no explanation of why the method generalizes.
- Theory result whose significance is unclear outside a narrow variant.
- Missing implementation details or proof gaps in the central claim.
- Formatting, anonymity, dual-submission, external-link, or supplement violations under the current-year policy.
- A contribution framed for a neighboring field while giving SIGMOD reviewers too little technical or empirical substance.
Re-routing decision
If the paper misses SIGMOD's bar, compare against international-conference-on-very-large-data-bases / ieee-international-conference-on-data-engineering / acm-symposium-on-theory-of-computing / ieee-symposium-on-foundations-of-computer-science. Re-route based on contribution type, not prestige: theory to a theory venue, systems to a systems venue, application-heavy work to a domain venue, and early ideas to workshops or shorter tracks when the official CFP supports them.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
[Contribution type] algorithm / theory / system / dataset / benchmark / empirical / design / security / other
[Main evidence gap] <single most important missing proof, experiment, study, artifact, or policy check>
[Official items to re-check] CFP / author kit / deadline / format / anonymity / ethics / AI-use / artifact / rebuttal / camera-ready
[Top rejection risk] <venue-specific risk>
[Re-route suggestion] <better-matched conference or journal if not a fit>
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