Health of Conferences Committee

From Health of Conferences Committee

February 10, 2006 @ SIG Governing Board Meeting

Contents 1 Executive Summary 2 Charge from ACM President David Patterson 3 Process 4 Response Sources so Far

Executive Summary

• Working for six weeks to find some best practices

• Five questions yielded responses from 30 SIGS
  • Reviewer load
  • Non-incremental
  • Program committees
  • Workshops, etc.
  • Catch all

• Have some first-impression results

• Want feedback
  • markhill@cs.wisc.edu or baglio@hq.acm.org

Charge from ACM President David Patterson

The idea is to collect the best practices onto a web page so that conference organizers can see innovative ways to cope with the demands of paper submissions, refereeing, and presentations as the number of papers increase.

The hope is that organizers will either try good new ideas or at least avoid the mistakes of others.

Process

Dec. 2005 committee formed; Baglio & Hill start up

• Jan. 5 call to divide responsibly & set questions
  • Marks – ACM SIGs with BIG conferences (> 1K attendees)
  • Hall – ACM SIGs with MEDIUM
  • Baglio – ACM SIG with SMALL (< 100)
  • Gaudiot/Prinetto – IEEE in manner to be done

• Iterated on questions; sent out; got many responses
• Feb 6 call to check status & Feb 8/9 info to Hill
• Feb 10 status to SGB (this talk)
• Feb 27 call to review data on Wiki (we hope)

Response Sources so Far

• ACM Big:

DAC, ICSE, OOPSLA, SIGCSE, SIGGRAPH

• ACM Medium:

SIGART, SIGARCH, SIGCHI , SIGIR , SIGACT, SIGPLAN , SIGMOD, SIGCOMM , SIGKDD

• ACM Small:

SIGAda, SIGAPP, SIGBED, SIGACCESS, SIGCSE, SIGDA, SIGDOC, SIGecom, SIGITE, SIGMETRICS, SIGMICRO, SIGMIS, SIGSAC, SIGSAM, SIGSIM, SIGUCCS, SIGWEB

• IEEE: To be done