We are pleased to announce that we will be running a shadow PC event alongside the main PC for EuroSys 2013. This represents an excellent opportunity for young systems researchers (PhD students) to get experience in community service — i.e. programme committee practices.

If you are interested in taking part then please get in touch with Jon.Crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk by October 20th. Shortly after this we shall start the paper assignment process roughly in synch with the main PC.

Please also get in touch with Jon if you have any queries.

Being a member of a shadow PC is a lot of work without any recognition. However, it is also very rewarding and worthwhile for a number of reasons, including:

• Getting to know how a PC is run and how it operates.
• Getting to see good quality papers as well as bad ones, and see how papers are viewed by others.
• Discovering what it takes to publish a paper in a highly selective conference such as EuroSys.
• Having a chance to read top-notch papers in your area of expertise before they are published.
• Submitting high quality reviews makes one a possible candidate for future PCs.
• Discussing the papers with one or more EuroSys PC members who will attend the shadow meeting.
• Getting to know other Shadow PC members.

Process:

We expect to get around 100-200 papers forwarded from the PC for shadow work.

We propose (as last time) that shadow PC papers will receive 1 light and 1 heavy review in first round, then the shadow PC chairs will select papers above the bar for 2 more heavy reviews.

With 30 people on the shadow committee, we could expect around 20 papers each to look at, of which about 8 are light reviews.

There may be shadow-light PC members (only get light reviewers or few heavy reviews, and don’t have to attend shadow PC meeting in person) and shadow-heavy PC members (mix of reviews, plus prefer they attend the meeting).

The timescales will track the main PC’s so paper assignment and 2nd phase reviews, and final meeting, roughly in line with the important dates http://eurosys2013.tudos.org/

We will have a face-to-face meeting in Cambridge to try to select a shadow programme — only heavy-shadow-PC members need attend. We do expect EU people to attend the face-to-face meeting, but this is optional for people outside the EU.

We plan the shadow PC to be very close in time to the main PC meeting, so the week of January 7-11, 2013, and in the same place (the Computer Lab in Cambridge, England, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/directions/

We will have a face-to-face meeting in Cambridge to try to select a shadow programme — only heavy-shadow-PC members need attend. We do expect EU people to attend the face-to-face meeting, but this is optional for people outside the EU.

See How to read a paper, by Keshav:

http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/07/paper-reading.pdf

See code of practice for PCs from SIGSOFT for useful advice:

http://www.sigsoft.org/about/policies/pc-policy.htm

Workshop Submission

Please send electronic submissions to the workshop chairs at workshops@eurosys2013.tudos.org. Feel free to also contact them with any questions regarding the EuroSys 2013 workshops.