June 26-29, 2018, Vienna, Austria
http://tma.ifip.org/2018/

TMA 2018 Shadow PC
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To provide an educational experience by introducing students to a review
process and to subsequently train the next generation of program
committee (PC) members, the TMA 2018 TPC would like to make submitted
papers available to the shadow PC. Shadow PCs allow students and others
interested in future PC service to read submitted papers and go through
the reviewing process, ultimately arriving at a shadow conference
program. This opportunity allows future PC members to learn first-hand
about the peer-review process and gain
experience as a reviewer. The shadow PC process is run on a different
system and the shadow PC reviewers will not have any access to the real
reviews, the names of the real reviewers, or any other data such as
relative rankings. Shadow PC reviewers will have to abide by the same
rules and restrictions applicable to regular PC members. This includes,
but is not limited to, rules against discussing the papers outside of
the PC context, or using in any way results from reviewed papers before
such papers have been published. Delegated reviews (i.e., external
reviews) are not allowed for the shadow PC. A submitted paper is made
available to the shadow PC by default; authors will have the opportunity
to opt-out during the paper submission process. Shadow reviews for
papers that are reviewed by the shadow PC will be sent out after the
actual TMA’18 review process.  Authors who have participated in previous
shadow PCs have found the additional reviews helpful; however, these
reviews will have no bearing on acceptance to the technical program. You
can directly contribute to a successful shadow PC and benefit from the
additional feedback on your submission by making your paper available to
the shadow PC with no extra overhead. Simply indicate your choice in the
HotCrp submission site.

Shadow PC Chairs (contact: shadow-tma18@cm.in.tum.de)

-- Vaibhav Bajpai (Technische Universität München)
-- Andra Lutu (Simula Research Laboratory)
-- Oliver Hohlfeld (RWTH Aachen University)


Call for Applications
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Following a successful model used at other premier technical conferences
such as SIGCOMM, CoNext, EuroSys, NSDI, and IMC, TMA will be organizing
its first Shadow Program Committee in 2018. The Shadow PC will consist
of PhD students, early-career academics, and junior researchers and will
provide reviews on a subset of submissions to the conference. Paper
authors can choose to opt-out for shadow reviews.  The TMA Shadow PC
will function much like an independent version of the “Senior” PC,
including holding an in-person or online PC meeting and deciding the
program of papers it would have selected (note that only authors will
learn the “shadow” fate of their own papers, which will have no impact
on the actual TMA PC process). Shadow PC members will be expected to
review a full load of 5-10 papers (depending on the number of
submissions selected for the Shadow PC process) on time and participate
in online discussion, as well as follow the ethical standards of peer
review. Shadow PC members will also be required to do a small amount of
reading about the PC process. Shadow PC members must respect the
anonymity of the review process and not share which papers they have
reviewed or solicit sub-reviews. Shadow PC members who do not adhere to
the review deadlines will be excluded from the process. Shadow PC
reviews will be made available (anonymized) to the authors.
The Shadow PC meeting will likely be held on March 28 in Berlin
co-located with PAM (details TBD). Shadow PC members should attend
in-person or online (some travel grants will be available to support
attendance). Shadow PC members will not attend the Senior PC meeting,
and the Shadow PC program acceptance decisions will not be made
available publicly. However, some PC members might attend the shadow PC
meeting to help with the discussions.  If you are interested in
participating, please apply by uploading your application material to
http://hotcrp.cm.in.tum.de/shadow-tpc-tma18 submission
site by Jan 15th, 2018, Midnight Pacific time. Your application should
consist of a single PDF file which includes a CV and a brief (0.25-1 pg)
motivation statement explaining why you’d like to participate in the
shadow PC. Be sure to include your name, position/year of study, areas
of research experience, publications (feel free to include tech reports,
papers under submission/preparation, and unreviewed manuscripts, as long
as you indicate them as such) or past reviewing experience (ok to have
none).

Important Dates
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Deadline to Apply for Shadow PC: February 1, 2018
Notification of Acceptance to Shadow PC: February 8, 2018
Shadow Review Period: February 17 – March 21, 2018
Shadow Discussion Period: March 21 – March 27, 2018
Shadow PC Meeting: March 28, 2018