Best Demonstration Award

Demonstrations Chairs

• Bingsheng He (National University of Singapore)

• Martin Theobald (University of Luxembourg)

• Reynold Xin (Databricks) Alekh Jindal (Microsoft) Liwen Sun (UC Berkeley) Alkis Simitsis (HP Labs) Matei Zaharia (Stanford University) Avery Ching (Facebook) Michael Cafarella (University of Michigan) Carsten Binnig (Brown University) Michael Armbrust (Databricks) Dahlmeier Daniel (SAP) Paolo Papotti (Eurecom Sophia Antipolis) Danica Porobic (Oracle Labs) Rainer Gemulla (University of Mannheim) Donald Kossmann (ETH Zurich) Ralf Schenkel (University of Trier) Emmanuel Müller (Hasso Plattner Institute) Rubao Li (Ohio State University) Eric Lo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Rui Zhang (University of Delaware) Eugene Wu (Columbia University) Sai Wu (Zhejiang University) Fatma Ozcan (IBM Research) Sairam Gurajada (IBM Research, Almaden) Fei Chiang (McMaster University) Shivaram Venkataraman (UC Berkeley) Felix Martin Schuhknecht (Saarland University) Shuai Ma (Beihang University) Fred Reiss (IBM) Srikanta Bedathur (IBM India Research Lab) Guoliang Li (Tsinghua University) Wolfgang Gatterbauer (Carnegie Mellon University) Jiannan Wang (UC Berkeley) Xiaodong Zhang (Ohio State University) Program Committee Johann Gamper (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Xike Xie (USTC) Jorge Quiane Ruiz (QCRI) Xin Huang (Hong Kong Baptist University) Joseph Gonzales (UC Berkeley) Yannis Velegrakis (University of Trento) Justin Levandoski (Microsoft Research) Yin Huai (Databricks) Kai Zeng (Microsoft Research) Yingyi Bu (Couchbase Inc.) Katja Hose (Aalborg University) You Wu (Google Research) Kyriakos Mouratidis (Singapore Management University) Zeke Wang (National University of Singapore) Leong Hou U (University of Macau) Zhe Chen (University of Michigan) • Alekh Jindal (Microsoft) • Felix Martin Schuhknecht (Saarland University) • Kyriakos Mouratidis (Singapore Management University) • Martin Theobald (University of Luxembourg) • Paolo Papotti (Eurecom Sophia Antipolis) • Reynold Xin (Databricks)

Awards Committee • Shuai Ma (Beihang University) • Xin Huang (Hong Kong Baptist University) Some Numbers from CMT

• 115 demo-paper submissions • 44 papers with supplementary video (optional) • 3 reviewers assigned to each paper • 35 demo papers accepted • 30% acceptance rate • 3.69 avg. reviewing score (scale from 1 to 6) • 42% of all rejected papers had video attached • 29% of all accepted papers had video attached • Max. number of authors per paper: 30 VLDB’17 Best Demonstration Award (I) goes to GRAPE: Parallelizing Sequential Graph Computations • Wenfei Fan (University of Edinburgh & Beihang University) • Jingbo Xu (University of Edinburgh & Beihang University) • Yinghui Wu (Washington State University) • Wenyuan Yu (Beihang University) • Jiaxin Jiang (Hong Kong Baptist University) VLDB’17 Best Demonstration Award (II) goes to Interactive Navigation of Open Data Linkages • Erkang Zhu (University of Toronto) • Ken Pu (University of Ontario Institute of Technology) • Fatemeh Nargesian (University of Toronto) • Renee Miller (University of Toronto)