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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>