<div dir="ltr">Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA Conference 2018)<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">June 26-29, 2018, Vienna, Austria<br><a href="http://tma.ifip.org/2018/" target="_blank">http://tma.ifip.org/2018/</a><br><br>TMA 2018 Shadow PC<br>==================<br><br>To provide an educational experience by introducing students to a review<br>process and to subsequently train the next generation of program<br>committee (PC) members, the TMA 2018 TPC would like to make submitted<br>papers available to the shadow PC. Shadow PCs allow students and others<br>interested in future PC service to read submitted papers and go through<br>the reviewing process, ultimately arriving at a shadow conference<br>program. This opportunity allows future PC members to learn first-hand<br>about the peer-review process and gain<br>experience as a reviewer. The shadow PC process is run on a different<br>system and the shadow PC reviewers will not have any access to the real<br>reviews, the names of the real reviewers, or any other data such as<br>relative rankings. Shadow PC reviewers will have to abide by the same<br>rules and restrictions applicable to regular PC members. This includes,<br>but is not limited to, rules against discussing the papers outside of<br>the PC context, or using in any way results from reviewed papers before<br>such papers have been published. Delegated reviews (i.e., external<br>reviews) are not allowed for the shadow PC. A submitted paper is made<br>available to the shadow PC by default; authors will have the opportunity<br>to opt-out during the paper submission process. Shadow reviews for<br>papers that are reviewed by the shadow PC will be sent out after the<br>actual TMA’18 review process. Authors who have participated in previous<br>shadow PCs have found the additional reviews helpful; however, these<br>reviews will have no bearing on acceptance to the technical program. You<br>can directly contribute to a successful shadow PC and benefit from the<br>additional feedback on your submission by making your paper available to<br>the shadow PC with no extra overhead. Simply indicate your choice in the<br>HotCrp submission site.<br><br>Shadow PC Chairs (contact: <a href="mailto:shadow-tma18@cm.in.tum.de" target="_blank">shadow-tma18@cm.in.tum.de</a>)<br><br>-- Vaibhav Bajpai (Technische Universität München)<br>-- Andra Lutu (Simula Research Laboratory)<br>-- Oliver Hohlfeld (RWTH Aachen University)<br><br><br>Call for Applications<br>=====================<br><br>Following a successful model used at other premier technical conferences<br>such as SIGCOMM, CoNext, EuroSys, NSDI, and IMC, TMA will be organizing<br>its first Shadow Program Committee in 2018. The Shadow PC will consist<br>of PhD students, early-career academics, and junior researchers and will<br>provide reviews on a subset of submissions to the conference. Paper<br>authors can choose to opt-out for shadow reviews. The TMA Shadow PC<br>will function much like an independent version of the “Senior” PC,<br>including holding an in-person or online PC meeting and deciding the<br>program of papers it would have selected (note that only authors will<br>learn the “shadow” fate of their own papers, which will have no impact<br>on the actual TMA PC process). Shadow PC members will be expected to<br>review a full load of 5-10 papers (depending on the number of<br>submissions selected for the Shadow PC process) on time and participate<br>in online discussion, as well as follow the ethical standards of peer<br>review. Shadow PC members will also be required to do a small amount of<br>reading about the PC process. Shadow PC members must respect the<br>anonymity of the review process and not share which papers they have<br>reviewed or solicit sub-reviews. Shadow PC members who do not adhere to<br>the review deadlines will be excluded from the process. Shadow PC<br>reviews will be made available (anonymized) to the authors.<br>The Shadow PC meeting will likely be held on March 28 in Berlin<br>co-located with PAM (details TBD). Shadow PC members should attend<br>in-person or online (some travel grants will be available to support<br>attendance). Shadow PC members will not attend the Senior PC meeting,<br>and the Shadow PC program acceptance decisions will not be made<br>available publicly. However, some PC members might attend the shadow PC<br>meeting to help with the discussions. If you are interested in<br>participating, please apply by uploading your application material to<br><a href="http://hotcrp.cm.in.tum.de/shadow-tpc-tma18" target="_blank">http://hotcrp.cm.in.tum.de/<wbr>shadow-tpc-tma18</a> submission<br>site by Jan 15th, 2018, Midnight Pacific time. Your application should<br>consist of a single PDF file which includes a CV and a brief (0.25-1 pg)<br>motivation statement explaining why you’d like to participate in the<br>shadow PC. Be sure to include your name, position/year of study, areas<br>of research experience, publications (feel free to include tech reports,<br>papers under submission/preparation, and unreviewed manuscripts, as long<br>as you indicate them as such) or past reviewing experience (ok to have<br>none).<br><br>Important Dates<br>===============<br>Deadline to Apply for Shadow PC: <b>February 1, 2018</b><br>Notification of Acceptance to Shadow PC: <b>February 8, 2018</b><br>Shadow Review Period: February 17 – March 21, 2018<br>Shadow Discussion Period: March 21 – March 27, 2018<br>Shadow PC Meeting: March 28, 2018 <br clear="all"><span class="HOEnZb"></span><br></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Andra Lutu</div><div dir="ltr">Postdoctoral Fellow<br>Mobile: +47 458 36 244</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Simula Research Laboratory </div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px">Visiting address: Martin Linges vei 17, 1364 Fornebu, Norway</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Mailing address: P.O.Box 134, 1325 Lysaker, Norway</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">------------------------------</span><u style="font-size:13px"></u><span style="font-size:13px">------------------------------</span><u style="font-size:13px"></u><span style="font-size:13px">-----------</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px">Homepage: </span><a href="http://simula.no/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:13px" target="_blank">https:/www./simula.no/</a></div></div></div></div></div>
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