[Tccc] New topic - fewer conferences

Marco Ajmone Marsan ajmoneatpolito.it
Sun Jun 2 17:28:11 EDT 2013



 
If the objective is selecting which conferences/workshops
should be co-sponsored by ComSoc, and if experience is
the key factor, why not give us a list of events, asking us
to vote the ones we would like ComSoc to sponsor?  

This might be more effective than a set of constraints
that organizers will try to meet, instead of striving
for quality.

marco



Il 02/06/2013 21.24, Henning Schulzrinne ha scritto:
> Unfortunately, by that metric, we'd be left with one conference (SIGCOMM) and 
> no workshops co-sponsored by ComSoc. That might be a reasonable outcome, but 
> may not be universally popular.
>
> Again, it might be helpful to remember in this discussion that we're not 
> looking to crown the top conference(s) or evaluate conferences for tenure 
> cases. Rationalizing the approval process seems like a small, but helpful, 
> step.
>
> I sympathize with the notion that there are probably too many conferences and 
> workshops, but if that's so, concrete suggestions would be helpful, as 
> somebody is obviously still submitting papers to those events. (I think the 
> proliferation of events is rational, if not ideal: The effort of producing 
> conferences has decreased due to process automation and remote hotel booking; 
> increasing trans-oceanic air fares encourage regional events; there are more 
> active regions beyond North America and northern Europe, etc.)
>
> For example, does ComSoc/TCCC co-sponsor too many events? Which ones 
> shouldn't it co-sponsor and why?
>
> Henning
>
> On Jun 2, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Giuseppe Bianchi wrote:
>
>> Human factor: that's why I find appealing a metric consisting in the number 
>> of attendants over the number of papers.
>>
>> Having 400 persons traveling to a 40-papers conference without any 
>> presentation to deliver is the result of years of human-judgement practice 
>> which at least suggests that papers presented there are useful. Then, you 
>> can find crappy papers everywhere, simply the probability is deemed to be 
>> lower that in a 300 paper conference attended by 300 authors and nobody else.
>>
>> Giuseppe.
>>
>
>
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