Collected Wisdom

This is a place for collecting information about conference organization, an outgrowth of the WOWCS'08 workshop. I'm taking the first stab at collecting this information. The intent is to seed this for discussion, then let it be a living document going forward. Many of the topics come from my own WOWCS paper, but I added a few other issues based on other submissions and online discussion.

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This page contains various suggestions that are intended to provide guidance to conference organizers, especially first-time program committee (PC) chairs. Refer to PolicyDebates for additional topics that are more contentious.

-- FredDouglis - 01 Apr 2008

Topics:

• ProgramCommittees
• WritingCFPs
• ReviewingProcesses
• AwardProcesses
• StartingNewConferences
• ShadowPCs
• RunningConferences

Other resources:

• Related papers, Web pages, etc.: RelatedDocuments
• ACM/IEEE Health of Conferences Committee
• ScribeNotesFromWOWCS

Expanded Table of Contents

This might help as a guide to the detailed content of this collection. It is not created automatically; authors, please keep it up to date!

Topics:

• ProgramCommittees
  • SelectingMembers
    • CommitteeInbreeding
  • EvaluatingMembers
  • ReviewingProcesses
    • ReviewingSystems
      • HotCRP
  • CommitteeTracks
  • RunningPCMeetings
  • Are FaceToFaceMeetings a good idea or not? (part of PolicyDebates)
• WritingCFPs
  • How to set deadlines
  • Formatting rules for submissions
  • Explaining the goals and boundaries of a conference
• ReviewingProcesses
  • Deadlines
  • Assigning papers to reviewers
  • External reviewers
  • Software
  • Other recommendations
• AwardProcesses
  • When to choose
  • Who chooses
  • Categories of awards
  • Number of awards
• StartingNewConferences
• ShadowPCs
  • Procedures for running a shadow PC
  • Information on previous shadow PCs
• RunningConferences
  • DealingWithNoShows

PolicyDebates:

• FaceToFaceMeetings
• RatingVersusRanking
• DoubleBlindReviewing
• PublicReviewing
• CurtailingSubmissions
• Plagiarism
• RebuttingReviewers
• AuthorshipInclusion

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