If the objective is selecting which conferences/workshops should be co-sponsored by ComSoc, and if experience is the key factor, why not give us a list of events, asking us to vote the ones we would like ComSoc to sponsor?
This might be more effective than a set of constraints that organizers will try to meet, instead of striving for quality. marco Il 02/06/2013 21.24, Henning Schulzrinne ha scritto: > Unfortunately, by that metric, we'd be left with one conference (SIGCOMM) and > no workshops co-sponsored by ComSoc. That might be a reasonable outcome, but > may not be universally popular. > > Again, it might be helpful to remember in this discussion that we're not > looking to crown the top conference(s) or evaluate conferences for tenure > cases. Rationalizing the approval process seems like a small, but helpful, > step. > > I sympathize with the notion that there are probably too many conferences and > workshops, but if that's so, concrete suggestions would be helpful, as > somebody is obviously still submitting papers to those events. (I think the > proliferation of events is rational, if not ideal: The effort of producing > conferences has decreased due to process automation and remote hotel booking; > increasing trans-oceanic air fares encourage regional events; there are more > active regions beyond North America and northern Europe, etc.) > > For example, does ComSoc/TCCC co-sponsor too many events? Which ones > shouldn't it co-sponsor and why? > > Henning > > On Jun 2, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Giuseppe Bianchi wrote: > >> Human factor: that's why I find appealing a metric consisting in the number >> of attendants over the number of papers. >> >> Having 400 persons traveling to a 40-papers conference without any >> presentation to deliver is the result of years of human-judgement practice >> which at least suggests that papers presented there are useful. Then, you >> can find crappy papers everywhere, simply the probability is deemed to be >> lower that in a 300 paper conference attended by 300 authors and nobody else. >> >> Giuseppe. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications > (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. > [email protected] > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Marco Ajmone Marsan Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy Phone: + 39 011 090 4032 - Fax: + 39 011 090 4099 Institute IMDEA Networks Avda. del Mar Mediterraneo, 22, 28918 Leganes (Madrid), Spain Phone: + 34 91 481 6969 - Fax: + 34 91 481 6965 --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
