Identify The Champion

"Identify the Champion" is a small PatternLanguage by OscarNierstrasz intended to give direction in the task of running a program committee.

Problem

How should you design the review process so that the PC meeting will succeed in selecting the best papers?

Solution

Make the paper review and selection process for a scientific conference more efficient by focusing programme committee members' attention on whether or not they will "champion" a submitted paper during the program committee meeting.

Be sure to distribute the papers to program committe members who are likely to champion them.

Organize
- the review forms
- the ranking and sorting of reviews
- detection of conflicts
- the review meeting itself around the identification of champions
Use rating schemes
with explicit operational meaning
- such as, "I will champion this paper"
rather than implicit, subjective meaning
- such as "strong accept", or "better than average", or "5"
Group papers
- around presence or absence of champions and detractors
- rather than ranking them by weighted scores
Drive all discussions and decisions toward IdentifyTheChampion

The full text is available in PDF or HTML:

http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~oscar/Champion/

The individual patterns discussed are:

ExpertsReviewPapers?
ChampionsReviewPapers?
Make ChampionsExplicit?
IdentifyTheConflicts?
IdentifyMissingChampions?
ChampionsSpeakFirst?
ConsensusOnPCPapers

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