Technical Program

Committee selection Committee strategy Paper submission Paper assignment Paper reviewing Committee meeting Proceedings Conference Post conference

Acknowledgement

Attended postmortem for ICSE 1999 and ICSE 2000

Sought (and received) much advice from previous chairs Prior to selection of committee: Dave

and Jeff After selection---conference: Alex and

Mehdi Recommend (highly) history/record of

activities to improve ICSEs, reduce duplicate effort, …

Committee Selection

Decide on composition of committees Created three separate committees for

papers: technical, education, case study

Decide on management of committees Managed technical program; oversaw

education and case-study committees, which were managed by other co-chairs

Committee Selection (cont’d) Decide on strategy for selection of committee

First listed all areas we wanted to cover, and identified possible people in those areas

Talked to ICSE-2 to get recommendations for committee

Used the ICSE conference guidelines at http://www.icse-conferences.org/sc/guidelines: considered length of time, etc.

Considered membership in other committees (e.g., ISSTA, FSE)

Selected mix of junior/senior, academic/industry, nationalities, men/women, …

Committee Strategy Determine guidelines/strategies for PC

Non appearance at PC meeting Bidding strategy Funding to attend PC meeting Location of PC meeting Etc

Make duties of committee clear in invitation Send reminder of duties close to paper submission

Sent last reminder two weeks before paper due date

PC members can reconsider conflicts for attendance at PC meeting; if they cannot participate, PC chairs can invite new members if necessary before paper assignment

Paper Submission

Select electronic submission/reviewing system Used Witan Web Very pleased with system and support

Decide on submission strategy Abstract first, then paper (2001);

abstract, paper submitted together (2000); etc.

Decide whether abstract is required, and state in call and on web

Set firm deadlines (including time zone), and state in call and on web site

Paper Assignment Bidding

completed before paper deadline Assign papers

Assigned manually at week-long meeting Mixed junior/senior reviewers on a paper Assigned approximately same

number/reviewer (18-22) Considered balance for meeting

discussion; considered strong/weak, language, etc.

Spent considerable time making assignments/checking, etc.

Paper Reviewing Monitor reviewing, and respond to

problems (e.g., no reviews submitted by PC member by due date)

Send reminders about reviewing deadline Make sure that PC members record all

information about outside reviewers that you plan to include in the proceedings (we asked only for names on the review forms, and spent quite a bit of time finding affiliations for the proceedings; there were many outside reviewers for the papers)

Committee Meeting Decide on attendance strategy

Required all PC members to be at meeting, or listed as outside reviewer (clear in invitation guidelines and duties)

Determine paper order (modeled after ICSE 2000) Papers to discuss; determined after

reviews; scheduled papers with at least one A or two or more Bs; can discuss about 100 papers in two days (about 6 min/paper)

Paper order by constraints (e.g., all involved, no conflicts, mix of evaluations)

Committee Meeting (cont’d) Create meeting strategy

Sent guidelines before meeting; explained guidelines at beginning of meeting; didn’t give much opportunity to discuss/change guidelines

Determine seating arrangement Placement in room, to PC chairs, to each other

Determine management of meeting Planned discussion order Switched off during meeting, alternating

responsibility for discussion between chairs Used notes to communicate about discussion Attempted to lead discussion to decision about

paper

Committee Meeting (cont’d)

Arrange for meeting PC members want power for laptops

during meeting Consider size/arrangement of room for

meeting Arrange for required AV equipment for

meeting Arrange for lunch, breaks, etc Plan PC dinner

Select ICSE –10 paper Send table of contents prior to meeting Discuss and get recommendation at

meeting

Committee Meeting (cont’d) Create materials for meeting

Personalized booklets for each PC member, chairs No evaluation numbers for conflicts; no review for conflicts;

all other reviews for papers to be discussed List of papers by discussion order List of papers by numeric order List of conflict papers List of papers reviewed (discussed)

Copy of all submitted papers; copy of all reviews Materials for PC members

Markers for booklets, name tags for PC members, … Keep materials in meeting room; collect materials at

end of meeting

Committee Meeting (cont’d)

Create program immediately following PC meeting Held meeting immediately following PC

meeting to finalize program Hausi organized and ran meeting, which

consisted of chairs of all conference committees

Proceedings

Done by IEEE with Anne Jacobs as proceedings editor Collected papers from authors Organized proceedings according to guidelines Etc

Spent significant time proof reading; don’t assume that editor does this

Make arrangements for digital library (IEEE and ACM)

Decide what to include in proceedings (we included information about all tracks)

Decide who will take lead on particular tasks

Conference

Select session chairs PC members who need to be session chairs;

PC members who don’t have papers in the conference and want to be session chairs

PC members who reviewed the paper, work in the area, request a particular session

Plan for those who cancel late Create guidelines for session chairs,

presenters Send periodically prior to conference Make available on web site Be prepared for many not reading them

Post Conference

Select papers for special issue/fast track Get recommendations from PC Select papers for resubmission,

and consideration for a special issue of TSE