Timeline for Are best-paper awards for conferences rigged/pre-decided?
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| S Jul 25, 2018 at 21:12 | history | rollback | SJa |
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| Jul 25, 2018 at 12:23 | history | suggested | Rodrigo de Azevedo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2018 at 23:13 | comment | added | SJa | @OBu, no we were clear on best-paper award discussion. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 19:07 | history | protected | Alexandros | ||
| Jul 24, 2018 at 13:13 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | You seem to be put off by the idea that the award would be "given to the to the person of the organizer's choice". But who else should make that decision, really? Pretty much every award ever is given to someone selected by the organizing body. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 12:15 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @OBu: how the invited talks are chosen depends on the conference. For many conferences (including most of those I've been involved with), they are chosen by a vote of the program committee – exactly the same as the accepted papers and the best paper award, except the invited speakers aren't chosen from those people who submitted papers to the conference. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 12:00 | comment | added | OBu | One more thought about this issue: Maybe the person you were talking to was confusing "best paper" with "invited talk" / "plenary talk" - you were descriping exactly the process how those talks are selected. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 11:16 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | @YuvalFilmus Sorry, I mis-spoke. I just meant the idea of having a best-paper award for a conference in the first place, not the details of what the OP mentions. I work in (pure) maths so conference papers are an afterthought or "dumping ground" while I know that in TCS conference papers are highly prized; that's all I meant | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 6:54 | comment | added | Yuval Filmus | @YemonChoi I'm not sure where you got this impression from. In the several program committees that I served, we chose the best paper using a two-step process: (1) PC members propose papers that they liked and got accepted to the conference, (2) a vote is held. This is a far cry from the mechanism described in the OP. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 1:29 | answer | added | Glen_b | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Jul 23, 2018 at 19:54 | comment | added | untreated_paramediensis_karnik | My own experience with the best-poster award was that it was not rigged. I came out of the blue (1st conference, 1st poster), I didn't know anyone and I got a poster award (about 5% of poster presentators earned it). I'm sure this is the same with the best-paper award. But of course it might depend on the conference. | |
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| S Jul 23, 2018 at 15:46 | history | edited | Anyon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Jul 23, 2018 at 15:46 | history | suggested | psmears | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2018 at 15:08 | answer | added | Captain Emacs | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 13:05 | answer | added | J-Kun | timeline score: 31 | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:05 | answer | added | mako | timeline score: 22 | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 11:45 | answer | added | aeismail | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 11:02 | answer | added | Buffy | timeline score: 44 | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 7:55 | comment | added | user53923 | What IS true is that in some (many?) cases the winner(s) of the best paper award are informed that they have won the best paper award before the conference (I imagine for practical reasons, such as ensuring that they will be present when the best paper award is awarded). | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 7:12 | comment | added | user96258 | Two comments: (1) I'm not sure any conference of any note rigs the "best paper" award. I can see this happening in conferences hosted by predatory companies, though. (2) Before believe rumours from your friend, I suggest asking him for evidence or doing some investigation yourself. For example, the Thomas Chalmers award given by the Cochrane Collaboration is pretty clear about the eligibility and assessment criteria. Good luck! | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 3:49 | comment | added | SJa | Telecommunication, and mobile networks | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 3:43 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Which discipline is this? Not all conferences work like TCS, which is what your example sounds like | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 3:43 | history | asked | SJa | CC BY-SA 4.0 |