tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890204.post4667586949383836096..comments2024-03-10T05:26:42.148-04:00Comments on My Biased Coin: Strange Transactions on Information Theory PoliciesMichael Mitzenmacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06738274256402616703noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890204.post-26539463275879258662008-07-14T19:39:00.000-04:002008-07-14T19:39:00.000-04:00I can't add anything new to my 5 page conference v...<I>I can't add anything new to my 5 page conference version without going over that arbitrary 5 page correspondence limit.</I><BR/><BR/>Not that it matters with the discontinuation of correspondences, but this actually is untrue. The font size requirements are different for these two formats, so you can actually add quite a bit more to the extended abstract and keep it under five pages in the correspondence version. <BR/><BR/>But there are weirdnesses. After the 5-page restriction had been announced, but before it was enforced, the editor suggested that my 14-page paper be a correspondence without suggesting that it be cut down! (It ultimately was a regular paper.) My advisor also recommended publishing correspondences, saying that they generally went through a shorter publication process, but my experience does not bear this out. This, perhaps like the 30% rule, is one of those rumors that might or might not be true, depending on whom you ask (and who your editor is).Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14749446395269735704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890204.post-32461007605707658252008-07-02T11:11:00.000-04:002008-07-02T11:11:00.000-04:00This situation is just a symptom of the fact that ...This situation is just a symptom of the fact that CS hasn't yet made its mind about what a conference is. On the one hand we say a conference submission is just an abstract not reviewed for correctness, on the other we behave as it was a journal publication (or even better than) when it comes to promotion, publication in another journal and priority claims even though in some cases substantial portions of the argument are missing from the conference version and the paper has never been fully vetted for correctness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890204.post-91269607988396919072008-07-01T13:32:00.000-04:002008-07-01T13:32:00.000-04:00Glad to hear correspondences will be retired; I h...Glad to hear correspondences will be retired; I hadn't known!<BR/><BR/>Dan -- the "reason" for re-publishing is if you believe (as I do) that conferences are not suitable for performing functions that have historically belonged to journals: specifically, providing reviewing that both checks for correctness and may lead to other changes in a paper. If reviewers find that a conference paper is acceptable as is, publishing the paper in a journal still provides a "stamp" that is of a different type and quality than a conference.<BR/><BR/>Now, this may be changing as we move more and more to electronic publication, but I think it's still true now.Michael Mitzenmacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02161161032642563814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890204.post-66844056872899890652008-07-01T13:10:00.000-04:002008-07-01T13:10:00.000-04:00Michael, You'll be happy to know that the correspo...Michael, <BR/><BR/>You'll be happy to know that the correspondence section has been officially discontinued. There will only be regular papers from now on, with no page limit. Hallelulah!<BR/><BR/>Regarding the issue of republishing conference papers in the journal this has been a topic of furious debate ever since ISIT starting publishing 5 pagers in 2005. Nothing really much has been resolved. I myself do not see the point in republishing exactly the same thing.<BR/><BR/>Dan CostelloAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890204.post-15908008154200003852008-06-30T16:06:00.000-04:002008-06-30T16:06:00.000-04:00The correspondence section of the IEEE-IT Transact...The correspondence section of the IEEE-IT Transactions will be most likely gradually stopped, see the relevant announcement on first page of the June issue of the IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter<BR/><A>http://www.itsoc.org/publications/nltr/itNL0608.pdf</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890204.post-2567349544619237452008-06-30T15:12:00.000-04:002008-06-30T15:12:00.000-04:00Aren't ISIT papers just one page? I thought only ...Aren't ISIT papers just one page? I thought only the submitted paper was 5 pages, while the conference version had to be a single page. Maybe this changed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com