icde-related-work
GitHub用于审查ICDE论文的创新性与资格，区分真正创新与工程增量，执行对数据库经典文献及现有系统的 reinvention 审计，覆盖多领域竞品，处理两轮投稿期间的并发工作冲突，并指导作者诚实声明与先前作品的重叠部分。
Trigger Scenarios
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill icde-related-work -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "icde-related-work",
"description": "Use when positioning an IEEE ICDE submission against the database canon and neighboring venues, running a reinvention audit across SIGMOD, VLDB, EDBT, and shipping systems, handling two-round concurrency, distinguishing engineering delta from genuine novelty, and covering both the literature and production systems an ICDE reviewer expects."
}
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>
Version History
- 9f86f09 Current 2026-07-19 15:55
