Pubzone

Dear all: We are happy to announce PubZone, a new service for the scientific community, in particular the database community. PubZone provides a discussion forum and Wiki for each publication. The idea for PubZone emerged as part of the initiative to ensure the repeatability of experiments reported in SIGMOD papers. The results of such repeatability experiments will be published in PubZone. However, any other material from authors and the community concerning a publication (e.g., errata, powerpoint, implementations of algorithms, data, etc.) can be published on PubZone. Furthermore, PubZone has a rating system which allows to rate publications and comments (adopted from the Amazon recommendation system for books). In cooperation with Michael Ley, PubZone provides support for all the publications registered in DBLP and it is integrated into DBLP. If you would like to go to PubZone for a specific paper, please, click on the PZ icon in DBLP. You can also visit PubZone directly by going to http://www.pubzone.org You can browse through PubZone and view all content without registering. In order to post comments and upload material into PubZone, however, you need to activate your account. In order to activate your account, please, visit the PubZone Web site, click on "activate account" in the menu, and follow the instructions. If you have any questions, please, contact us at: info@pubzone.org. We are very interested in feedback and your ideas. Martin Kaufmann & Donald Kossmann