7 Nov
2023
7 Nov
'23
9:54 a.m.
Ok.
Cheers,
Rosario
Il giorno mar 7 nov 2023 alle ore 08:45 Mieke Massink <
mieke.massink(a)isti.cnr.it> ha scritto:
Dear SC members,
Below please find the reply by Ilaria and Francesco on your suggestions.
They have also slightly changed the composition of the PC to obtain a
better gender balance and representativity from different countries. I'm
attaching the new list to this email.
We really have to start inviting the PC and get the CfP out soon. So a
very quick reply is much appreciated (just "OK" if you wish is fine, unless
you see a real problem or typo).
Many thanks and best regards,
Mieke
On 02/11/23 09:49, Francesco Tiezzi wrote:
Dear Mieke,
thank you for your detailed feedbacks. We reply below to the various
points.
Il giorno gio 2 nov 2023 alle ore 09:49 Mieke Massink <
mieke.massink(a)isti.cnr.it> ha scritto:
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Dear Ilaria and Francesco,
Last Monday I forwarded your proposal for the PC and draft CfP to the
Steering Commission. Below please find the first set of suggestions. More
people may still follow-up on my email, but I wanted to share the feedback
received so far already with you in order to speed-up the preparations for
the conference.
I’m happy to inform you that almost all members that responded so far
agree with most of the proposal and with the proposed members for the PC.
On the latter there was a slight concern about the gender balance. (It was
remarked that the proposed PC has 11/23 female-to-male ratio, which is kind
of underwhelming. True, this is very close to the ratio we had in 2020
(9/18) but last year it was already 12/17, which is much better.) The SC
expresses their gratitude for you hard work.
We agree with this comment and we have revised the list of PC members
accordingly (see the attached Excel file). Please, let us know your opinion
about the modified PC (we tried to improve gender balance and reduce the
number of people from Italian institutions).
There have also been a few suggestions for
improvement and some minor
suggestions (see below).
- Concerning the requirements for artefact submissions and EAPLS badging.
The information on this procedure is currently missing but should be
inserted also in the first version of the CfP. The guidelines document that
you received some time ago provides clear indications on how to do this.
These guidelines have been discussed and agreed upon by the SC. In
particular, at the end of the guidelines document you find some helpful
definitions and principles concerning artefacts badging. In particular:
1) Following ACM’s definition, an artifact is “[a] digital object that
was either created by the authors to be used as part of the study or
generated by the experiment itself. For example, artifacts can be software
systems, scripts used to run experiments, input datasets, raw data
collected in the experiment, or scripts used to analyze results.
2) COORDINATION accepts regular papers and tool papers. For both kinds of
papers AE is voluntary. To improve and reward reproducibility and to give
more visibility and credit to the effort of tool developers in our
community, authors of accepted (regular and tool, short and long) papers
will be invited to submit publicly available (using permanent repositories
such as Software Heritage, Zenodo, etc.) artifacts associated with their
paper for evaluation, and based on the result of the evaluation they may be
awarded one or more badges. See EAPLS Artifact Badges for details. Artifact
submission is optional and the result of the artifact evaluation will not
alter the paper’s acceptance decision but may impact the decision on best
papers. Detailed guidelines for the preparation and submission of the
artifacts will be made available.
The rules for artefact submission and badging should be clearly mentioned
in the CfP and on the web-site of Coordination.
We will improve the CfP accordingly. Anyway, we would like to discuss this
matter also with the AE Chair. Therefore, we are going to first invite
Rumyana as AE Chair.
Some minor suggestions:
- Some found the use of the term “long” sounds strange. Most conferences
just call them “regular papers”; calling them “long” may be confusing. In
fact, the length of the “long” paper is from 7-15 pages. So “regular” might
be a better term.
Ok.
Furthermore, it was suggested to put tool papers
as the last in the order
as they have a longer description and are considered orthogonal to the
other categories.
Ok.
Someone suggested to be also a bit more tolerant
on the maximal length of
a paper and, say accept a paper that is 10% longer if this is beneficial
for the clarity of the paper. One could make this explicit in the CfP and
require authors to inform the PC Chairs about such a case.
We are a little puzzled about this suggestion. Instead, we propose to
directly and explicitly increase for everybody the page limit to 17 pages
for regular papers. What do you think?
- Furthermore, maybe it is possible to improve the description of tool
papers as currently much content is between parentheses.
Ok.
- There was some concern about requiring a 10
minutes video in addition
to an artefact would not ask too much of the authors. As far as I remember,
the video in the past was required only for short tool papers.
We have replaced "must" by "may" for this requirement. Anyway,
the last
year the video was required for both long and short tool papers.
- the link to the website is currently dangling. This should be fixed
before it is distributed.
Sure, we will ask Jorge.
Best regards,
Francesco & Ilaria
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