[Tccc] ComSoc technical cosponsorship - r...

Joe Touch touchatisi.edu
Thu May 30 16:17:51 EDT 2013



 

On 5/30/2013 12:47 AM, Martin Gilje Jaatun wrote:
> Den 29.05.2013 20:05, skrev Joe Touch:
>> I've drafted the following, which I hope will open a discussion on this
>> issue. If it evolves into something useful, perhaps it can be posted on
>> the TC websites for use by those appointed to monitor TC-endorsed TCS'd
>> meetings.
> [...]
>> 5. TPC meeting                E/A/D
>>
>>       E = in-person meeting with support for remote
>>       A = in-person with no remote support or only telecon or e-mail
>>       D = no meeting
 >
> I'm a little surprised by this - I have participated in a large number
> of program committees over the years, and none of them have had
> in-person TPC meetings - at most there have been a discussion phase
> using the conference submission system.  

The interaction at an in-person meeting, even with remote support, is 
quite different than when the discussion is only online. Many 
conferences have in-person TPC meetings, but agreed that this is not 
used everywhere.

>> 7. paper accept rate            E/A/D
>>
>>       E = <=50%, based on natural gap in paper evaluation
>>       A = <=50%, not based on 'gap'
>>       D = >50%
 >
> The problem with acceptance rates is that they are so easy to game - and
> according to this, a conference that receives 100 great papers and
> accepts 60 of them is worse than a conference that gets 1000 junk
> submissions and accepts 400 of them...

Yes; there's a problem treating any one of these questions as absolute. 
This particular question is from existing ComSoc policy:
http://cms.comsoc.org/eprise/main/SiteGen/Confs_P_P/Content/Home/Conference_Publications.html

I don't agree that this can be 'gamed' on a persistent basis. 
Conferences that get 100 great papers will later get 1000. It's 
impossible to target a voluntary audience so directly that this happens 
without correction over several events.

Joe
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