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Program Committee MeetingsConsidered Harmful
Robbert van Renesse
Cornell University
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Bad things about PC meetings
• Sometimes unproductive meeting dynamics– Overly assertive PC members– Waves of negativity
• Skewed representation– For many too much travel for one-day meeting
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Harm to the environment
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Time and money?
• In two days, a PC could generate– 50-100 additional reviews, or– Small group on-line discussion + review
summary for each paper (a la NSF)
• Travel money saved could send more students to conference
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Alternative
• Two or three PC chairs• PC committee scores papers
– On-line discussions for controversial papers initiated by PC chairs
• PC chairs come up with ranking function and select highest ranked papers
• One opportunity for PC members to disagree with selection (perhaps)
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Evaluation
• 150 submissions
• 25 papers to accept
• 100 experiments
• Equipment:– Powerbook G4– Mac OS X
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Which works better: ranking or voting?
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ConclusionDoes anyone strongly believe that a PC
meeting improves the quality of the reviewing process sufficiently to offset the disadvantages I have presented?
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