icde-supplementary

ICDE Supplementary

Use this when assembling ICDE supplemental material. The supplement can support the paper, but

the 12-page body must stand on its own — a reviewer must be able to accept the headline result

without opening it.

What goes where

• Body (12 pages): the mechanism, the pseudocode, the two or three decision-critical

figures, the mechanism-isolating ablation, and the cost/crossover analysis.

• Supplement: extended sweeps, additional baselines, full workload documentation, secondary

proofs or derivations, and the runnable artifact package.

• Do not hide essential motivation, the core mechanism, or the primary result in the

supplement; a paper whose argument lives outside the page budget reads as unreviewable.

The runnable artifact package

Because ICDE weighs availability in the score, treat the artifact as first-class:

• A README that orients a reviewer in about a minute: what the system is, how to build it,

and which command reproduces which figure.

• run_all.sh (full reproduction) and run_small.sh (a fast subset for a reviewer without a

cluster), both writing to a predictable output location.

• The workload generators with their seeds and parameters, and any real-dataset fetch or

construction scripts.

• A claims map linking each paper figure to the script and log that produced it.
• A license and, for the camera-ready release, a tagged version matching the paper's numbers.

What reviewers open first

| Supplement item | Inspection likelihood | Practical implication |

|---|---|---|

| README + run_small.sh | High | Must build and run cleanly on a stock machine |

| Figure-to-script claims map | Medium-high | Every headline figure needs a traceable command |

| Extended sweeps and baselines | Medium | Reference each from the body or it goes unread |

| Full raw logs | Low | Include for completeness, never depend on them |

| Secondary proofs | Variable | Restate the claim before proving it |

Single-blind packaging

• ICDE is single-blind, so the package need not be anonymized. Do not strip author names,

scrub commit history, or replace the repository URL with a placeholder — that effort is wasted

here and can even confuse a reviewer expecting an attributed artifact.

• Do still remove credentials, secrets, cache directories, and large irrelevant files —

hygiene, not anonymity, is the concern.

Vignette: splitting an index-system paper

A submission on a write-optimized index: the body keeps the two-tier mechanism, the lazy-merge

pseudocode, the throughput and latency-tail figures, and the deferral ablation; the supplement

holds the full append-to-scan sweep, an extra RocksDB-style baseline, the trace documentation,

and the artifact with run_small.sh reproducing the crossover on one machine. Nothing

decision-critical lives only in the artifact, because deep artifact inspection is at reviewer

discretion.

Output format

[Supplement status] Ready / Needs fixes / Not ready
[Body vs supplement] <what stays in 12 pages vs moves out>
[Artifact package] <README / run_all.sh / run_small.sh / generators / claims-map>
[Availability signal] <does the supplement demonstrate a runnable artifact? y/n>
[Hygiene checks] <secrets / caches / bloat removed>
[Main-paper dependency] <what breaks if the supplement is ignored>