Dear Sir,
Thanks for your mail, which Prof. Hu forwarded to me. As you mentioned, it is very difficult task for us to distribute the papers to TPC members according to the specific field of each papers, especially, we are not familier with the TPC members' special fields. Furthermore, we've got most papers in the last days, so that we do have enough time to pre-review the papers for proper distribution. That's why we listed all the papers for your own choice, and we'd like to be informed about your choice (the papers you selected to review) and that would help us to distribute the papers. In fact, in the mean time, we were working hard to divide those papers to some categeries and distrubrited to relevant members, until now almost every paper have got two reviewers, but we still need the third one. Could you please indicate your special fields or interests so that we may distribute some papres for your reviewing. Finally, we are going to have a meeting on March 25 with TPC members, who are able to attend, to determine which papers will be accepted.
For we are not experienced to organize such conference indeed, we are very grateful to your suggestions and comments.
Yours Sincerely
GONG Ke
Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China
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Dear friends, I have received the message form Otto Spaniol concerning the review process of ICCT'2000. I fully agree in most of his comments. My only difference is that I have been luckier tha him; I have succeeded to retrive at least one paper (while I was witting this message the second one is arrived) (I continue to be lucky; the third one is arrived). I have been chariman of several programme committees and one of the hardest taks is to distribute the papers among the program committee members trying to balance the workload of each of them and respecting theis expertise domains. In this conference, belonging to the IFIP World Congress, this trask has not been done. From the review form, apparently, we should review all the papers. Otherwise the papers will cover in a random way a sample of the papers, allowing the chairman to decide the accepted papers practically just in his own opinion. And this is not fair. If this is the process, I do not play this role. Best regards to all of you, but specially to those belonging to this extrange program committee Ramon ================================================================================
Ramon Puigjaner Universitat de les Illes Balears Phone: +34-971173288 Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica +34-971173401 Carretera de Valldemossa km 7.5 Fax: +34-971173003 07071 PALMA e-mail: putxi@uib.es Spain ================================================================================