VLDB SI survey editorial

Excerpt

VLDB Journal (VLDB J.) organizes a special issue on surveys of essential and emerging topics in database management. A good survey paper can provide a concise but broad overview of a topic, give a comprehensive review of existing work and compare existing solutions from different angles. Most importantly, a survey paper can provide insights regarding interesting and important new research directions. Therefore, for this special issue, VLDB J. is soliciting excellent survey papers on essential and emerging topics in database management. We have received 28 submissions, out of which 15 survey papers are finally accepted after one- or two-round reviews. The accepted survey papers cover a wide spectrum of topics including trajectory distance measure, in-memory database acceleration, decomposition of networks, data visualization, interactive data systems, regret minimization query and variants, microblogs data management, spatial crowdsourcing, data set search, indexing on flash storage, complex event recognition, graph community search, LSM-based storage, graph edit distance computation and even modeling and mining. …