[Tccc] CoNext short paper deadline AD...

Giovanni Pau gpauatcs.ucla.edu
Fri May 24 12:53:13 EDT 2013



 Dear Sanjay, and CoNext Leadership, 

I was totally surprised by this announcement.  This is not the way that I would 
have expected CoNext to behave as a leadership conference in our community.   


Let me state the facts as I see them:

- The previous deadline for short papers set on July 12th,  was published and 
advertised in April. About one week ago the timing of the conference was 
changed on the web-site however the advertising was med only today May 24, 
2014, announcing the deadline was cut from July 12, 2013, to June 14th 2013; 28 
days cut announced just 20 days before the new deadline.  

- According to the mail below this has been done to "not conflict" with HotNet 
2013 deadline which CFP is not even published  yet.   


Your message gave one an impression that regardless of the prestige of the 
conference or the general practice, rules can simply change as the organizers 
want.  I was further totally puzzled by the reasoning: CoNext is a conference, 
HotNets is a workshop; presumably the two events will also be held at rather 
different locations.  If their submission deadlines happen to be close with 
each other, it should be the authors who choose which one to submit their 
papers to, based on their own preference.  Why should CoNext organizers force 
them one way or the other by cutting short the originally published submission 
date?

This is particularly bizarre given google has not been able to locate HotNets 
2013 CFP yet (though you seem to know).

I'm sorry  but i believe this is not the way to operate a premiere conference.  
In my opinion if  you have the honor and the duty to run an event like CoNext 
once the timing is decided and published on the web-site and advertised (since 
mid april) the timing is fixed regardless of the other events, they will adapt 
if appropriate. 

Finally I sent an e-mail to the General Chairs and TPC chairs on Friday and i 
got no response until this mailing-list response by Sanjay which I thank for 
enlightening the community on this matter. 

Best Regards
Giovanni
  

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On May 24, 2013, at 12:34 PM, Sanjay G Rao <san... at ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:

> As previously announced, the 9th edition of the ACM CoNext conference 
> includes an explicit call 
> for 6-page short papers, in addition to the normal 12 page full length 
> papers. This email is to 
> announce that the paper submission deadline for the short papers has been 
> ADVANCED to June 14th, 
> to coincide with the full paper submission deadline.
> 
> The CoNext Organization Committee sincerely regrets any inconvenience this 
> may cause to authors. However, 
> this was necessitated by the need to avoid conflicts in submission dates with 
>  HotNets, an ACM Sigcomm 
> sponsored workshop.
> 
> Regardless of these teething problems, the Organization Committee believes 
> the short paper track will greatly add 
> to the vibrancy of ACM CoNext as it seeks to serve the needs of the research 
> community. For more information, 
> and the complete Call for Papers, please  visit the conference web-site:
>  http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2013
> 
> 
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