Resist Schoolyard Peer Pressure
Only because other conferences are doing it, you don’t have to – the benefit to your conference and its community…
Category: Misconceptions
Don’t try to fix the symptom
Conferences are complex with breathtaking numbers of dependencies. Resolving a tiny symptom, with a possibly easy fix, can cause much…
1 is the only acceptable acceptance ratio
… which is of course a bit of a polemic title, let me try to motivate: How can acceptance ratio…
Research Conferences vs. H-Index Machines
I find numerical evaluation systems bad for the community. Evaluation criteria, notably h-index, are forced upon us by actors outside…
Rules alone cannot ensure fair procedures
Rules can be an important part of conference procedures. If made public, they contribute to transparency of conference procedures and…
Quantitative Solutions don’t solve Qualitative Problems
A reflex to problems often seem to be “do more of x”. Let’s look at an example: “Not happy with…