Re: Fwd: [CfP] International Lisp Conference '07 (news)

Pascal Costanza <[email protected]>
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On 10 Dec 2006, at 15:15, Geoffrey S. Knauth wrote:

> I am very sympathetic to the dilemma facing academics.  However,  
> ILC is calling itself a conference, not a workshop.  So which is it?

It's a conference, and it is peer-reviewed.


Pascal

>
> I also noticed a calendar conflict between ILC 2007 at Cambridge  
> University and TFP 2007 at Seton Hall and CCNY.  Is that an  
> underlying conflict, or an additional one?  TFP 2007 calls itself  
> neither a conference nor a workshop, but a symposium, "the  
> successor to the successful series of Scottish Functional  
> Programming Workshops."  Maybe the type theorists can sort this out.
>
> Geoffrey
> --
> Geoffrey S. Knauth | http://knauth.org/gsk
>
>
> On Dec 10, 2006, at 08:47, Emery Berger wrote:
>
>> Shriram is right. One organization sharing this (IMHO unfortunate)  
>> view
>> is ACM SIGPLAN. SIGPLAN's official republication policy is on the  
>> web,
>> which extends ACM's policy:
>>
>> http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/republicationpolicy.htm
>>
>> Here are the relevant sections for this discussion:
>>
>> -----
>> * The requirement to disclose prior publication or presentation  
>> applies
>> to all workshops and conferences with an electronic or paper  
>> proceedings
>> that is distributed or generally available outside the workshop or
>> conference. Prior presentation of a paper at workshops with no such
>> published proceedings will not be considered, and need not be  
>> mentioned.
>>
>> * If a paper has appeared in a workshop with published  
>> proceedings, and
>> this has been properly disclosed, factors such as the following will
>> generally cause program committees to give less consideration to such
>> prior publication:
>>
>>     * The workshop call for papers clearly states that it is not
>> intended to replace conference publication.
>>     * The proceedings are available only electronically at a site  
>> other
>> than an established digital library.
>>     * The original proceedings are not easily available, are not
>> expected to be easily available in the future, or were published in a
>> language other than that of the conference (i.e. English).
>>     * The workshop was aimed at a geographically limited audience.
>> -----
>>
>> I'm paraphrasing Kathleen Fisher: the rule of thumb is that if you  
>> want
>> papers at the workshop to later be able to appear at conferences,  
>> don't
>> put the papers in the digital library.
>>
>> -- Emery
>>
>> --
>> Emery Berger
>> Assistant Professor
>> Dept. of Computer Science
>> University of Massachusetts Amherst
>> www.cs.umass.edu/~emery
>

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Pascal Costanza, mailto:[email protected], http://p-cos.net
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab
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