2nd Workshop on
Simplicity in Management of Data (SiMoD)
Co-located with SIGMOD 2024, Santiago, Chile
Jun 14, 2024 (Friday)

Overview

At a first glance, data systems today are complex, with various components, tuning knobs and delicate design decisions. However, at their core - as researchers and practitioners have been observing at least anecdotally - are simple ideas that work well in practice. Simple ideas are easier to understand, less prone to bugs and more likely to be implemented by real products. Keeping individual design points simple also helps reduce system complexity and improve maintainability. However, this does not mean ignoring the necessary complexity or tricky corner cases. Meanwhile, it also often takes a tremendous amount of experience to propose such ideas. The goal of SiMoD (courtesy to Lawrence Benson for coming up with the name!) is to promote simple but non-trivial and effective ideas, by gathering researchers and practitioners to share their perspectives, new ideas, and experience on building practical data systems.

Workshop Chairs


Call for Papers

The Workshop on Simplicity in Management of Data (SiMoD) aims to promote simple but non-trivial and effective ideas. SiMoD gathers researchers and practitioners to share their perspectives, new ideas, and experience on building practical data systems. The workshop is open to basically all data systems topics, including but not limited to both classic database systems topics and data applications, such as query processing, transaction processing, query optimization, storage management, networked and distributed database systems, data management in the cloud and self-driving database systems.

Submission Tracks

We invite two types of contributions: (1) novel ideas and (2) experience.

Submission Instructions

Manuscripts should follow the latest ACM proceedings format (double-column) and be submitted as PDF files at: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SiMoD2024.

SiMoD is a single-anonymous workshop. Authors are expected to include their names and affiliations on the first page of the manuscript.

Evaluation Criteria and Reviewing Process
Determining whether an idea is "simple but effective" is generally subjective and difficult (if not impossible) to quantify precisely. When evaluating submissions, the PC will consider several helpful (although imperfect) metrics, including but not limited to: As an example, the B-link tree by Lehman and Yao is a classic that would fit the above evaluation criteria.


Important Dates


Program Committee

Co-Chairs

PC Members