Re: [Tccc] improving submissions

>From the QoS problem, we know that it is easy to devise scheduling and resource allocation algorithms (relatively speaking), but hard to get a set of distributed, competing actors to actually implement such algorithms. Just as we learned in networking over the past decades, complex algorithms rarely get implemented, so maybe we can extrapolate this to the social problem at hand.

Henning

On Dec 14, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Ari Trachtenberg wrote:

>> I'm not picking on you, but we can't solve the problem without acknowledging that something has to give, namely we can either have:
>> - fewer papers accepted/submitted OR
>> - more conferences OR
>> - larger conferences.
>
> Clearly, we have more submissions than good reviewers, much like we have more e-mail than time to read it. The solution is that there must
> be some constrained resource attached to submissions.
>
> For example:
> (i) one could limit submissions from any one author, or
> (ii) one could require a certain review/submission ratio. Poor reviewers will not be asked to review again, and will naturally stop being able to submit papers.
>
> best,
> -Ari
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