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Notes on Paper 36: ACCEPTED

As the PC member accompanying this paper, I recommend it to be
workshoped at PLoP. It is not a strong recommendation, as the pattern
still needs to be improved and the solution is rather common for people
with good knowledge in databases, which is not my case. I talked to
some friends about it, and they said this problem is always solved this
way (that's why I'm convinced it is a pattern). But for non-database
experts, there is a trick in the pattern which I believe is not so easy
to come up with.

The interaction between the shepherd and sheep was satisfactory,
although Rosangela (the shepherd) is not also an expert in databases.
See her comments below.

The paper quality improved, but still needs care. So, in case of not
having enough space in PLoP this year, this paper is a candidate to be
rejected.

Sincerely,

Rosana
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This message is to give you my opinion about the shepherded paper of
Hesham Saadawi. From its initial version, the paper has evolved a
great deal. This evolution has been mainly with regards to the English
presentation, which initially made the paper hard to understand and now
is properly understandable.
Another important evolution has been in terms of details for a reader to
visit the sites indicated in the bibliography and to find the information
necessary for him to understand the paper. The only problem is that he
placed that information in Appendix, which may not be acceptable, as I
have never seen that done in the other PLoPs. But that is an evolution
that may be done after the Plop discussion of the paper.
Another evolution refers to the "known uses" section that has been
properly added.
An important point is the type of diagram used to illustrate the data
models. We asked the author to make a uniform use of these diagrams, but
he has only partially attended our request.
Even though for database people, the data model presented in the pattern
is a very common solution; the pattern can be useful for non specialists
in that area, mainly for inexperienced developers.

In conclusion, in my opinion the paper can be accepted for presentation
to the PloP.

Sincerely,

Rosângela Penteado

Accept (weak): paper seems unfinished but has a lot of material. Needs better structure and does it have forces in the context?
Not being a domain expert I can not vouch for the validity of the solution. It looks a bit simplistic??
-Lise