Olympic IJCAI Reviewing Event

[mmcgeach at csail.mit.edu (Michael McGeachie)]

GSB will take place today in conjunction with Mix Master Ali's Beat the
Beatles CSAIL Olympics event!  All are welcome!  And all should have tons of
time today because the ICJAI deadline has been magnanimously postponed by
master of ceremonies Leslie Kaelbling.  

In a related development, the IJCAI Submission and Reviewing Olympics event
is being postponed due to the submission deadline slipping.  This event was
instituted this year as a partial response to claims that the Olympics were
becoming "irrelevant" and "frivolous."  In this new event, team members can
score points for their faction in two ways: by submitting papers or
reviewing papers.  Each team will score points for each submission to the
conference, and each team will score points for each team member reviewing
papers for the conference.

Submission points:

5 points : each paper submitted of 5-6 pages conforming to IJCAI's
formatting has a base score of 5 points

1 point for each page past 6
1 point for formatting in latex
3 points for formatting in latex but using something other than IJCAI.sty
2 points for apparently formatting in latex, but actually having latex
compilation errors
5 bonus points for having reviewers accept the paper
5-10 points for unnecessary mathematics, nicely formatted (judges
discretion)
5 points for each distinct self-citation

Reviewer points:

1 point per submission reviewed
1 point per paper rejected
5 points per paper rejected "with gusto"
2 points per review instructing the author to cite the reviewer's critically
important work in the field
3 points per review instructing the author to cite the reviewer's work, in a
tangential field and from an obscure workshop
5 points for a review containing more information about the reviewer's
previous publications than comments on the submission

Bonus points:

2 points to a paper per reviewer who has to "pass" on reviewing due to
incomprehension
10 bonus points to a paper for having no reviewer able to make coherent
sense of the paper


So, Olympians, there's still time to get your submissions in!  You can email
your submissions to Leslie Kaelbling, but remember to drop bribes off in
person at G486.  Much thanks again to Professor Kaelbling for organizing
such a topical and scholarly event!

Oh yeah, please... blah... blah... come to... blah...


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