Conference Reviewing Best Practices
Panelists
• Marie desJardins
University of Maryland Baltimore County
• Ariel Felner
Ben-Gurion University, Israel
• Kristian Kersting
Fraunhofer IAIS and University of Bonn, Germany
• Michael Littman
Brown University
• Ashish Sabharwal
IBM Research
Prepared Remarks
• Marie desJardins
The reviewing process
• Kristian Kersting
In dubio pro reo: Giving the benefit of the doubt
• Ashish Sabharwal
Junior reviewers: Making your review more relevant
• Ariel Felner
How deep the reviewing process can get: A case study with a AAAI-13 paper
• Michael Littman
Ethical issues for submitters and reviewers
Discussion Time! Possible Topics...
• Effective reviewing practices
• Handling “comment period” dynamics and author
feedback
• “Growing into” becoming an SPC / organizing
committee member
• Ethics of author/reviewer conflicts, duplicate
submissions, etc.
• Alternative reviewing models: Pros and cons
•
Scoring systems
•
Junior vs. senior reviewer perspectives
• Delegating to subreviewers: When and how
• ... ???