TPC Online Discussion
The following are guidelines for the TPC online discussion phase:
- Each TPC member is a TPC
lead for at most 5 papers. In this online discussion phase, the
TPC-lead should try to resolve conflicting reviews and to come
up with a unanimous recommendation for these papers. The
TPC-lead is also in charge of writing a short review (known as
the TPC-lead or meta- review), which summarizes the discussion
and makes a recommendation (Accept, Needs additional review,
Discuss at TPC meeting or Reject).
- TPC Leads: Please start
the discussion as soon as two reviews are available instead of
waiting for all three reviews to be submitted. The other
reviewers will receive the discussion message through an e-mail
from EDAS. Discussion messages can always be viewed on the EDAS
page for the paper. For details on how to initiate and post
discussion messages, please refer to the detailed instructions
above.
- Discussion messages are
sent anonymously to all the TPC members who have been assigned
as reviewers for the paper as well as any delegated reviewers.
You should not identify yourself when you post discussion
messages on EDAS. Reviewers may identify each other as "Reviewer
A", "Reviewer B" etc.
- The TPC lead of a paper
will have to check if the numerical scores are well justified by
the written review (and also catch short/low quality reviews),
and follow up with reviewers using EDAS requesting them to
update their reviews.
- Also, please just do not
mark papers for "discuss" without adequate on-line discussion.
During the TPC meeting, the group members spend an average of 15
minute per paper and do not have the time to *review* the paper
in detail - they will depend quite a bit upon the paper comments
and on-line discussions. Kindly provide them with more
clarifications about why you have unresolved differences, and
reasons for accept/reject.
- If the paper truly needs
more attention and an extra authoritative review, kindly mark it
for an extra review. This year, we will have Area TPC chairs who
will find such a review for papers and help in decision making.
- The TPC-lead summary
(meta-review) is due by Oct. 16.
An extension of a few days can only be granted by the ATPC Chair
who is responsible for the paper.
The ATPC chair can view the discussion
messages and participate in the online discussions (if
necessary). ATPC Chairs will also be able to view reviewer
identities.