Guidelines for Area TPC Chairs (TPC Group Leaders)
IEEE INFOCOM 2008
April 13 - 19, 2008, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Questions? Please email TPC Co-Chairs at
@cse.unl.edu.
@cse.unl.edu.
The regular TPC member guidelines are at: Guidelines for TPC Members.
Non-TPC paper reviewers guidelines are at: Guidelines for Reviewers .
Guidelines for TPC Meeting Attendees (Area TPC Chairs and Members) located here.
Authors will be allowed to select a TPC Group to associate their paper with at the time of paper submission. Once the papers have been submitted, some groups may be combined and papers moved across groups to balance the load across TPC groups.
During the INFOCOM TPC Meeting in October, these TPC groups will also be the basis for the meeting's discussion groups. More details will be provided later.
The TPC groups are:
The deliverables from the ATPC chairs are two-fold and due October 15, 2007.
Please click on the "Papers" and then click on "List". By default, all papers with "active" status and the following fields: Paper number, Paper title, Conference name are selected. Please add other useful fields to include such as "TPC group", "Authors with affiliation and country" and "Number of reviews of all types completed." Then click on the List papers button. You will be presented a list of all the papers in your group with the appropriate fields.
Please
note that a paper on EDAS can only be in one of
the following different (mutually exclusive) status categories. 
If you need to list all papers, use Papers->List->Check all boxes
Please list all the papers as described above and verify that you do not have a conflict of interest (see description below) with any of the authors of each paper. If you do have a Conflict of Interest, please inform the Program chairs by email mentioning the paper title and paper number. Please review the INFOCOM 2008 Definition of Conflict of Interest for determining the set of individuals you need to list on EDAS. People/institutions that you are in "conflict of interest" consist of the following:
From your Groupleader (Area TPC Chair) page, please click on the Papers->List tab. Then please click on "List papers" button after checking the default boxes - Status to include "Active", Fields to include "Paper number", "Paper title", "Conference name" You may also check the following boxes "Number of TPC reviews completed" and "Number of regular reviews completed" You will then be presented a page with the EDAS ID and title of all the papers in your group. You may click on the EDAS number for a paper (in the first column) to see the paper reviews, TPC summary and rating as well as the discussion messages among the TPC lead reviewer and regular reviewers for that paper.
While listing the papers as discussed above, check also the box marked "Weighted average of TPC scores: Recommendation." Once you are presented with a list of papers in your group, click on the column heading "TPC Avg." Now, you will find the list of papers sorted by the TPC summary rating. (4.0=Accept; 3.0=Needs additional review; 2.0=Discuss at TPC meeting; 1.0=Reject; 0.0=TPC review/summary missing).
Most papers in your group should have 3 Regular reviews (Review 1, 2, and 3; from Reviewers A, B, and C). Most papers should also have 1 TPC Review/summary (Review 1) i.e. Lead Reviewer (TPC) summary of discussion phase with a Recommendation. We are reminding reviewers and TPC members to submit the reviews soon. In addition, we are assigning backup TPC members and designated non-TPC member reviewers to these papers for urgent reviews. However, if there are less than 3 regular reviews and/or no TPC summary review for a paper, and/or a paper is marked "Need additional review" after the discussion phase, you may choose to assign an additional review to the paper. Please see below on how to assign a regular reviewer or TPC reviewer.
To assign a regular review for a paper, please click on the link marked "+ Assign another review" You may assign the paper to any qualified reviewer on the EDAS system by typing in a last name and clicking on the "Find" button. Please avoid regular "TPC members" for the conference and any others with conflict of interest with the authors (you may need to check with the potential reviewer first) and any others who are listed as Non-preferred reviewers by the authors. To assign a TPC review for a paper, please click on the link marked "+ Assign another TPC" at the bottom of the regular reviews for a paper. However, it may not be possible for the individual to have an online discussion with other reviewers at this stage. As such, you may assign a TPC review to yourself and summarize the existing reviews and online discussions and come up with a TPC Recommendation.
Your comments need to be entered on EDAS Notes section for each paper (see detailed instructions below). After you have entered your comments, found extra reviews etc, please prepare a SUMMARY SPREADSHEET of paper #s with your proposed decision for your papers. We will give you a quick reconfirmation of that list and you can then enter the formal decisions on EDAS (especially accept/reject) using the Mark papers tab (under the "Papers" tab). PLEASE do not use the Mark papers tab yourself directly.
Following the ATPC Chair guidelines, please suggest 10-15 papers in your group for discussion at the TPC meeting. If you are planning to attend the meeting, you will be asked to lead the discussions of these papers to an audience which will include the TPC/regular reviewers (TPC members) for the paper. If you are not planning to attend the meeting, please have information available in a Powerpoint presentation (and/or spreadsheet) which summarizes the discussion points for each of the paper in the Discuss category including the average review score, strengths/weaknesses etc.
There is an option in EDAS for this.
Please see below.
ATPC Web page Steps:
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1. Login on EDAS
2. Click on "My TPCs" (yellow colored Tab on the top of the page)
3. Click on "INFOCOM 2008" link.
{NOTE: You may see a line like this: ignore it & follow
instructions below! "Currently not reviewing any papers
for this conference."}
4. Click on the "Papers" Tab
{NOTE: not to be confused with "My papers"}
5. Click on the "List" Tab (under "Papers")
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Useful things to tick in EDAS paper "list" page:
{NOTE: there are several similar looking lines: make sure you
check the correct ones}
[] Active (registered, with manuscript)
[] Sequence number
[] Paper number
[] Paper title
[] Authors with affiliation and country
[] TPC group
[] Number of regular reviews completed
{NOTE: if only 2 reviews have been completed, we have usually
assigned a backup TPC member for extra review already}
[] Span (max-min) of weighted review scores
{NOTE: large span => higher variance in reviews}
[] Weighted average of TPC scores: Recommendation
{NOTE: 4 = Accept, 3=Needs Rev, 2=Discuss, 1 = Reject; 0.0 => NOT
COMPLETED by TPC Lead}
[] Weighted average of non-TPC review scores: Recommendation
{NOTE: IMPORTANT: Sort by this field once you see the list
papers. You do not need to look at papers below the reject
threshold, unless in rare cases, the tpc discussion ("TPC
Avg" column entry) recommends discuss or needs extra
review (2.0 or 3.0). }
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6. Click on "List Papers" Button to see the papers list. You should
have 37-38 papers in your list.
7. Sort by the column "Non-TPC Avg.".
- For papers with avg rating >= ACCEPT-THRESHOLD (straight accept), we want
you to affirm the decision on your spreadsheet.
- For papers with avg rating <= REJECT-THRESHOLD (straight reject), you do
not have to process them, except in rare cases,
when the tpc discussion ("TPC Avg" column entry) recommends
discuss or needs extra review (2.0 or 3.0). }
- the remaining papers ALL require your input, and possibly
(if you judge so), an extra review.
8. Writing your input/Assigning a reviewer on EDAS:
- Click on the paper number (or open it in a new window/tab)
- You can see the reviews for the papers, TPC discussions and summary
- To fill out the review form for your input, click on Edit review
<pencil icon>. This Icon is near the "Notes" row (above the
"Printing problems" row)
- To assign a reviewer, click on " (+) Assign another review"
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