http://wiki.usenix.org/bin/view/Main/Conference The web for users, groups and offices. TWiki is an Enterprise Collaboration Platform. en-us Copyright 2008 by contributing authors TWiki Administrator [webmaster@usenix.org] The contributing authors of TWiki TWiki http://wiki.usenix.org/bin/view/Main/Conference http://wiki.usenix.org/pub/TWiki/UsenixLogos/usenix-header-logo-142x62.gif http://wiki.usenix.org/bin/view/Main/Conference/HotCRP HotCRP HotCRP is a new conference reviewing tool developed by Eddie Kohler at UCLA. This page is a placeholder to provide documentation and other resources. Eddie ... (last changed by EddieKohler) 2008-08-24T02:22:20Z EddieKohler http://wiki.usenix.org/bin/view/Main/Conference/ConferenceInteractions Conference Interactions One of the threads at WOWCS was the relationship between conferences. This can take the form of explicit interactions: for example, I once ... (last changed by FredDouglis) 2008-08-15T22:14:58Z douglis http://wiki.usenix.org/bin/view/Main/Conference/CollectedWisdom 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 ... (last changed by FredDouglis) 2008-08-15T14:49:34Z douglis http://wiki.usenix.org/bin/view/Main/Conference/DoubleBlindReviewing Double blind reviewing One of the most contentious issues is whether reviewers should know the names and institutions of the authors of the papers they are reviewing ... (last changed by JeffMogul) 2008-06-03T01:16:27Z JeffMogul http://wiki.usenix.org/bin/view/Main/Conference/RebuttingReviewers Rebuttals A few conferences such as provide reviews before the final decision is made and give authors a chance to comment on the reviews. This seems like some extra ... (last changed by JeffMogul) 2008-05-22T00:18:48Z JeffMogul http://wiki.usenix.org/bin/view/Main/Conference/ReviewingSystems Reviewing Systems Available systems There are a number of reviewing systems, such as (in no particular order): HotCRP also documented on this Wiki at HotCRP ... (last changed by JeffMogul) 2008-05-22T00:17:13Z JeffMogul http://wiki.usenix.org/bin/view/Main/Conference/ReviewingProcesses Reviewing Processes Deadlines As a program chair, you need to be as clear as possible with PC members about your expectations. To give a specific example, when I ... (last changed by JeffMogul) 2008-05-21T23:56:55Z JeffMogul http://wiki.usenix.org/bin/view/Main/Conference/RunningPCMeetings Tips for running a PC meeting This page collects advice (mostly for PC chairs) about how to run a PC meeting. PC members might want to read this, to know what to ... (last changed by JeffMogul) 2008-05-21T23:53:43Z JeffMogul http://wiki.usenix.org/bin/view/Main/Conference/AuthorshipInclusion Authorship inclusion Who should be on the author list of a paper? There have been some claims that some people put students on papers not because of their significant ... (last changed by JeffMogul) 2008-05-21T00:42:06Z JeffMogul http://wiki.usenix.org/bin/view/Main/Conference/RelatedDocuments Related documents (on the topic of organizing CS conferences) "Improving Sigcomm: A few straw proposals" http://www.sigcomm.org/admin/July2001RepFinal.pdf ... (last changed by JeffMogul) 2008-05-21T00:39:23Z JeffMogul http://wiki.usenix.org/bin/view/Main/Conference/PolicyDebates The most interesting parts of WOWCS promise to be the debates over contentious (and sometimes preposterous) ideas, rather than the relatively tame bits of CollectedWisdom ... (last changed by JeffMogul) 2008-05-21T00:25:27Z JeffMogul http://wiki.usenix.org/bin/view/Main/Conference/SelectingMembers Selection of members It seems that a good rule of thumb is that every PC will have at least one person who simply shirks his or her responsibilities, and fails to ... (last changed by JeffMogul) 2008-05-21T00:09:45Z JeffMogul http://wiki.usenix.org/bin/view/Main/Conference/ScribeNotesFromWOWCS Scribe notes from WOWCS Detailed notes taken by the scribes during the workshop: WOWCSnotes.pdf: WOWCSnotes.pdf Summarized version of scribe notes: To appear ... (last changed by JeffMogul) 2008-05-20T23:34:16Z JeffMogul http://wiki.usenix.org/bin/view/Main/Conference/PublicReviewing Public Reviewing I think multiple submissions touch on this and invite others to fill out this section. FredDouglis 01 Apr 2008 Apparently the ACM policy on reviewer ... (last changed by FredDouglis) 2008-05-20T22:29:12Z douglis http://wiki.usenix.org/bin/view/Main/Conference/WebNotify This is a subscription service to be automatically notified by e mail when topics change in this Main/Conference web. This is a convenient service, so you do not ... (last changed by TonyDelPorto) 2008-05-20T18:37:14Z TonyDelPorto http://wiki.usenix.org/bin/view/Main/Conference/DealingWithNoShows Many conferences these days, with the exceptions of the extremely selective ones, run into problems with people failing to show up to present their paper. Sometimes ... (last changed by FredDouglis) 2008-05-18T22:07:10Z douglis