Re: [Tccc] Different community, similar problems? (Henning Schulzrinne)

There are enough conferences out there for researchers to publish their papers in. Different conferences have different philosophies, administrated by PC members, on what constitutes a good paper hence they have different metrics /criterion for selecting papers.

I know researchers who do not agree with certain metrics walk away and find a different home for their papers, a perfectly reasonable thing to do. I for one do not submit my papers to some of the popular 120+ paper conferences. As a result, I live with the consequences of having some of my papers being rejected from the "top" conference. In these situations, I (and others) generally go back to the drawing table, generate more results, re-write certain sections of the paper and try again. We keep the reviews in perspective because we remind ourselves not to be driven by simply wanting to increase the number of pdf documents on our web site, in other words we tell ourselves to be patient.

I generally understand what to expect when I attend a particular conference. The "top" ones according to my criterion, definitely do not always have all the great papers but the probability that a majority of these papers are very good is high and hence it is worth it to me to spend the time & money to go and participate. I don't believe there is hypocrisy, people have different beliefs and the variety of publications venues ensures that everyone can be happy.

Victor

-----Original Message-----
From: Nitin H. Vaidya
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 6:30 AM
To: tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: [Tccc] Different community, similar problems? (Henning Schulzrinne)

Thanks, Henning, for changing the subject to something more
entertaining ... although I have learned to be entertained by
reading the CFPs themselves.

This "hypercriticality" that Vardi points to is something that
bothers many of us, I am sure.

At conferences, as Vardi points out the cause is the low
number of acceptances.
I find it rather odd that we, as a community (some parts
of it anyway), seem to be proud that our "top" conferences
reject most of the submitted papers. Rather than being a
matter of pride, I would think that this is a cause for alarm
-- if we are really so poor at doing research, then
valuable resources are being wasted that could be better
spent elsewhere.

- nitin
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