Policies for Distinguished Paper Awards - cgo-conference/public GitHub Wiki

These are the policies for selecting the CGO Distinguished Paper Awards (formerly Best Paper Awards).

For a history of awards see here Distinguished Paper Awards

Distinguished Paper Awards

  • The Distinguished Paper Awards are designated to accepted papers of distinguished quality independent of their category (e.g. tool or experience report)
  • Up to 10% of the accepted papers may be awarded a CGO Distinguished Paper Awards (this is in line with ACM SIGPLAN policy: https://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Guidelines/ProChair/)
  • The Distinguished Paper Awards should showcase the quality of research at CGO. Therefore, the SC encourages the selection as many Distinguished Papers as possible.

Responsibility

  • The PC chairs are responsible for assembling a Distinguished Paper Awards Committee
  • The Distinguished Paper Awards Committee is responsible for selecting the distinguished papers
  • The GC is responsible for organizing the printing of award certificates
  • The Distinguished Paper Awards Committee Chair is responsible for presenting the award at the conference

Distinguished Paper Awards Committee

  • The Distinguished Paper Awards Committee should be assembled by the PC chairs by senior members of the PC
  • It should comprise of at least 5 members, where at least one member is the one of the PC Chairs, who should also chair the Distinguished Paper Awards Committee
  • The Distinguished Paper Awards Committee should be assembled considering potential conflicts of interests and following the guidelines of the SIGPLAN Diversity Policy

Process

  • A pool of candidate papers is identified, usually about twice the number of possible awards, i.e. about 20% of the accepted papers.
  • The selection of candidate papers should not purely be done by review score, but also informed by:
    • the written reviews
    • the reviewers discussion (before and after the authors response)
    • the authors response
  • The Distinguished Paper Awards Committee members read the final (and not initially submitted) version of the candidate papers
  • Each Distinguished Paper Awards Committee member ranks the candidate papers and send their ranking to the committee chair
  • After all rankings have been submitted, the committee chair moderates (possibly multiple rounds of) online discussions until the committee reaches consensus

Timeline

  • The selection of Distinguished Paper Awards happens after the decisions on paper acceptance
  • The selection should be completed by not longer than 6 weeks prior to the conference

Presentation of the Award

  • The Distinguished Paper Awards Committee Chair (i.e., one of the PC chairs) should present the award session at the conference