> Regarding presentation quality:
>
> The authors aren't always the best presenters, but this is the best way
> we have to ensure that the presenter is more than just a stand-in.
> Presumably if you're listed as an author, you're in a better position to
> give a presentation than an arbitrary stand-in. If you're concerned
> about presentation quality, that can be checked only by reviewing the
> presentations, not the papers, and that's not feasible.
>
So called 'best paper awards' should also include a rule that the
[leading or not] author of a paper must be a presenter of it and, of
course, make a good and motivating performance, which means to provoke
questions and debates. Such rule could be another way to prevent
disseminating awards to non-show authors. Instead, that would motivate
some folks to participate to an event with his/her own work.
An off-topic: I have also noted that some conference boards decide on
the best papers even before the papers are presented during an event. It
makes me wonder if the judges make their conclusions on a simple reading
the submitted text or what? If something should be awarded at a
conference (which I see as a place to present something creatively,
discuss it with peers and maybe answer some tricky questions), it is a
nonsense not to include author's public performance in front of the
audience into the 'best paper awards'.
Best regards,
Miroslav Skoric
--
(tutorial instructor:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html
http://www.iaeng.org/IMECS2009
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/ICWMC08.html
http://www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/greece/education/
http://www.wseas.us/conferences/2009/rodos/education)
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