After the Complaint: What Should ACM Disclose? (Comment Before April 9)
Should ACM be more forthcoming about its findings of violations of its policies? We strongly encourage members of the SIGOPS community to submit feedback.
Noteworthy
SOSP is going annual
The SOSP Steering Committee has decided to experiment with moving SOSP to an annual cadence. Care has been taken in the consideration of this change to schedule the two annual venues so that submission deadlines, reviewing periods, and conferences do not conflict.
Artifact evaluation, present and future
Science should be transparent and reproducible. In computer science, this means code and data should be publicly available and anyone should be able to validate a paper’s claims given reasonable hardware. Dedicated scientists have made their code and data public for decades, but until recently, this was done in a decentralized fashion. Groups had their … Read more
Should conferences have a rebuttal phase?
Many CS systems and architecture conferences have a rebuttal phase or an author response period, where authors can respond to the questions asked by reviewers, and correct misunderstandings by reviewers. We discuss the pros and cons of this phase, and whether it is a net positive or negative for the community. The author response phase … Read more