HALPERN@IBM.COM ("Joseph Y. Halpern") (09/14/86)
PODC (ACM Conference on Principles of Distributed Computing)
QUESTIONNAIRE
The information provided here will be used to advise future program
committees and our informal coordinating committee. If you have
attended a PODC conference or are interested in attending one at some
in the future, please fill this out and send it back to me
at halpern@ibm.com (arpanet), halpern%ibm.com@csnet-relay (csnet),
or halpern@almvma (bitnet).
1. PODC has thus far been held in Canada. Would you prefer that:
___ PODC remain in Canada
___ PODC remain in North America, but not necessarily in Canada
___ PODC be held in North America, Europe, and Israel
2. Part of the the problem in keeping PODC in Canada (or holding it
anywhere else, for that matter!) is finding organizers willing to chair
the general conference and take care of local arrangements. Do you know
anyone who could do the job? _______________________
3. If the number of submissions keeps increasing, we may end up
increasing the number of papers accepted. Would you prefer to:
___ keep PODC as a two-and-a-half day conference with
half hour talks (thus not allowing the number of papers to
increase very much)
___ keep PODC as a two-and-a-half day conference, but have
20 minute talks in order to accommodate more papers
___ keep half hour talks, but have PODC as a three-day
conference
___ have 10-minute talks as we did in the rump session, with
a few invited one-hour (mainly overview) talks
___ other __________________________________________________
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4. This year we had a rump session (consisting of 10 informal, unrefereed
10-minute presentations on current research) for the first time. Do
you think we should keep having such rump sessions? _______
If yes, do you have any suggestions for the format of the
rump session? _____
5. Any other comments or suggestions?
6. How many previous PODC's have you attended?
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