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<p>Dear all,</p>
<p>Many thanks for sharing all your views and information. This is
highly valuable.<br>
</p>
<p>I shall now write to Lin in name of IAOA to "notify our intent"
and obtain "the detailed decision report, referencing the data on
which the decision was based".</p>
<p>We may turn back to you for further advice regarding the
arguments to put forward in the next step.</p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Laure<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 14/04/2021 à 16:00, Maria Keet a
écrit :<br>
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Dear Tony, Giancarlo, All,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/04/2021 15:45, Anthony Cohn
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">An
interesting discussion and of course I agree it’s worth
making a case against the “demotion”. I agree about the
h-index point – scopus has a notion of “field weighted
impact factor” – which adjusts for the size of the
community. I don’t know if scopus computes this for
conferences, but given the relatively small size of our
community this might be an argument to make?</span></p>
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agreed, hence the "a need to spin that story better" note in my
email. afaik, it is something that they consider, but I'm not
privy to all those details.<br>
and indeed, it's people beyond the authors' standings and their
repeat participation, including those of the event organisers and
participants, among others. <br>
but as long as we don't know the reasons by it got downgraded,
it's guesswork why exactly<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Maria<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Best
wishes Tony <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
lang="EN-US"> Guizzardi Giancarlo <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:Giancarlo.Guizzardi@unibz.it"
moz-do-not-send="true"><Giancarlo.Guizzardi@unibz.it></a>
<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 14 April 2021 14:26<br>
<b>To:</b> Maria Keet <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:mkeet@cs.uct.ac.za"
moz-do-not-send="true"><mkeet@cs.uct.ac.za></a>;
Barry Smith <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:ifomis@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true"><ifomis@gmail.com></a>;
Laure Vieu <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:vieu@irit.fr" moz-do-not-send="true"><vieu@irit.fr></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Nicola Guarino <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:guarino@loa.istc.cnr.it"
moz-do-not-send="true"><guarino@loa.istc.cnr.it></a>;
João Paulo Almeida <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:jpalmeida@ieee.org"
moz-do-not-send="true"><jpalmeida@ieee.org></a>;
John Bateman <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:bateman@uni-bremen.de"
moz-do-not-send="true"><bateman@uni-bremen.de></a>;
Stefano Borgo <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:stefano.borgo@cnr.it"
moz-do-not-send="true"><stefano.borgo@cnr.it></a>;
Anthony Cohn <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:A.G.Cohn@leeds.ac.uk"
moz-do-not-send="true"><A.G.Cohn@leeds.ac.uk></a>;
Antony Galton <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:A.P.Galton@exeter.ac.uk"
moz-do-not-send="true"><A.P.Galton@exeter.ac.uk></a>;
Janna Hastings <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:janna.hastings@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true"><janna.hastings@gmail.com></a>;
Heinrich Herre <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:heinrich.herre@imise.uni-leipzig.de"
moz-do-not-send="true"><heinrich.herre@imise.uni-leipzig.de></a>;
Werner Kuhn <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:werner.kuhn@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true"><werner.kuhn@gmail.com></a>;
Riichiro Mizoguchi <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:mizo@jaist.ac.jp"
moz-do-not-send="true"><mizo@jaist.ac.jp></a>;
Mark Musen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:musen@stanford.edu"
moz-do-not-send="true"><musen@stanford.edu></a>;
Leo Obrst <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:lobrst@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true"><lobrst@gmail.com></a>;
Barry Smith <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:phismith@buffalo.edu"
moz-do-not-send="true"><phismith@buffalo.edu></a>;
Zena Wood <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:Z.M.Wood2@exeter.ac.uk"
moz-do-not-send="true"><Z.M.Wood2@exeter.ac.uk></a>;
Roberta Ferrario <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:roberta.ferrario@loa.istc.cnr.it"
moz-do-not-send="true"><roberta.ferrario@loa.istc.cnr.it></a>;
Michael Gruninger <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:gruninger@mie.utoronto.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true"><gruninger@mie.utoronto.ca></a>;
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:thomas.studer@inf.unibe.ch"
moz-do-not-send="true">thomas.studer@inf.unibe.ch</a>;
IAOA Executive Council <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:iaoa-council@ovgu.de"
moz-do-not-send="true"><iaoa-council@ovgu.de></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: FOIS and CORE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dear Maria and
all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">CORE does
periodic revision in its rankings from time to time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">They have already
requested input from the different communities many
months ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">As a community,
we missed that. I wasn't concerned about that because
the conference was classified as A<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">(well, in theory,
we could have tried to make the case for A* but that
would not have worked out as<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">our demotion
shows...). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The criteria used
by CORE is a mixture of objective and subjective
points (again, the communities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">try to make the
case considering both types of indicators). FOIS does
not do well h-index-wise but<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">that is mainly
due to the fact that it is a biannual conference (I
won't even enter the discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">of how much of a
bad idea is to use h-index to judge conferences...).
But that is the same for KR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">and KR managed to
revise their initially bad evaluation. Again, this
requires an active community effort.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Other conferences
that are small but prestigious in their relevant
communities have<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">managed to even
talk their way up to A* (e.g., PODS). ER is trying the
same move.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">As for subjective
aspects, some of the points that are taken very
seriously is the impact<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">and scientific
stature of people playing key roles in the conference
(PC chairs and members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">general chairs,
keynote speakers, frequent authors, etc.). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I think we should
react now by contacting them and defending the
importance of the event<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">as the most
important event for this community and highlighting
some of these points<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Giancarlo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span
style="color:black"> Maria Keet <<a
href="mailto:mkeet@cs.uct.ac.za"
moz-do-not-send="true">mkeet@cs.uct.ac.za</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 14, 2021 10:33 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Guizzardi Giancarlo <<a
href="mailto:Giancarlo.Guizzardi@unibz.it"
moz-do-not-send="true">Giancarlo.Guizzardi@unibz.it</a>>;
Barry Smith <<a href="mailto:ifomis@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">ifomis@gmail.com</a>>;
Laure Vieu <<a href="mailto:vieu@irit.fr"
moz-do-not-send="true">vieu@irit.fr</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Nicola Guarino <<a
href="mailto:guarino@loa.istc.cnr.it"
moz-do-not-send="true">guarino@loa.istc.cnr.it</a>>;
João Paulo Almeida <<a
href="mailto:jpalmeida@ieee.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">jpalmeida@ieee.org</a>>;
John Bateman <<a
href="mailto:bateman@uni-bremen.de"
moz-do-not-send="true">bateman@uni-bremen.de</a>>;
Stefano Borgo <<a
href="mailto:stefano.borgo@cnr.it"
moz-do-not-send="true">stefano.borgo@cnr.it</a>>;
Cohn <<a href="mailto:A.G.Cohn@leeds.ac.uk"
moz-do-not-send="true">A.G.Cohn@leeds.ac.uk</a>>;
Antony Galton <<a
href="mailto:A.P.Galton@exeter.ac.uk"
moz-do-not-send="true">A.P.Galton@exeter.ac.uk</a>>;
Janna Hastings <<a
href="mailto:janna.hastings@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">janna.hastings@gmail.com</a>>;
Heinrich Herre <<a
href="mailto:heinrich.herre@imise.uni-leipzig.de"
moz-do-not-send="true">heinrich.herre@imise.uni-leipzig.de</a>>;
Werner Kuhn <<a
href="mailto:werner.kuhn@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">werner.kuhn@gmail.com</a>>;
Riichiro Mizoguchi <<a
href="mailto:mizo@jaist.ac.jp"
moz-do-not-send="true">mizo@jaist.ac.jp</a>>;
Mark Musen <<a href="mailto:musen@stanford.edu"
moz-do-not-send="true">musen@stanford.edu</a>>;
Leo Obrst <<a href="mailto:lobrst@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">lobrst@gmail.com</a>>;
Barry Smith <<a
href="mailto:phismith@buffalo.edu"
moz-do-not-send="true">phismith@buffalo.edu</a>>;
Zena Wood <<a
href="mailto:Z.M.Wood2@exeter.ac.uk"
moz-do-not-send="true">Z.M.Wood2@exeter.ac.uk</a>>;
Roberta Ferrario <<a
href="mailto:roberta.ferrario@loa.istc.cnr.it"
moz-do-not-send="true">roberta.ferrario@loa.istc.cnr.it</a>>;
Michael Gruninger <<a
href="mailto:gruninger@mie.utoronto.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true">gruninger@mie.utoronto.ca</a>>;
<a href="mailto:thomas.studer@inf.unibe.ch"
moz-do-not-send="true">thomas.studer@inf.unibe.ch</a>
<<a href="mailto:thomas.studer@inf.unibe.ch"
moz-do-not-send="true">thomas.studer@inf.unibe.ch</a>>;
IAOA Executive Council <<a
href="mailto:iaoa-council@ovgu.de"
moz-do-not-send="true">iaoa-council@ovgu.de</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: FOIS and CORE</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Giancarlo, All,<br>
<br>
It may be of use to first find out from them why the
re-evaluated it differently. <br>
Good quality papers isn't the only criterion they use.
It's also, e.g., high performers among the authors,
but I assume we pass that as well. And then there's
the h-index of the conference, which doesn't do well,
as if FOIS doesn't really have any impact, actually.
Well, anyway, that's what it looked like when EKAW was
putting the material together, when Enrico Motta was
showing off his tool for computing citation metrics
during the EKAW steering committee meeting. Anyway, if
I had to put in a bet for reason why, it would be that
and a need to spin that story better. Still, to be
sure, perhaps the EC can try to find out why from Lin
first?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Maria<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<pre>---- <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Dr. Maria Keet<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Department of Computer Science<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>University of Cape Town<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Cape Town, South Africa<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>tel: +27 21 650 2667<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>fax: +27 21 650 3551<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>email: <a href="mailto:mkeet@cs.uct.ac.za" moz-do-not-send="true">mkeet@cs.uct.ac.za</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>work: <a href="http://www.cs.uct.ac.za" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.cs.uct.ac.za</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>home: <a href="http://www.meteck.org" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.meteck.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 13/04/2021 21:44, Guizzardi
Giancarlo wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Let me
raise another concern now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Please see
the message below from the CORE committee,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">in which
they are revising the classification of many CS
conferences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><br>
As many of you know, CORE is important for
computer science faculties.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Not only
directly but also because they build up into
several national evaluation systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">If the
classification of a conference goes down, people
will prefer to send their<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">best papers
somewhere else.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">According
to this revised classification, FOIS went from
an A conference to a B conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I think
there is room there for protesting this
classification before their final decisions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">but we need
to move fast and institutionally, i.e., IAOA
should do it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Best
regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Giancarlo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a
href="http://groups.google.com/a/core.edu.au/group/rankings/t/9f437bd0cd9470bf?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#1155CC">CORE
conference rankings (preliminary) changes </span></a></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#B1B0B0">Lin
Padgham <<a
href="mailto:lin.padgham@rmit.edu.au"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">lin.padgham@rmit.edu.au</a>>:
Apr 11 11:06AM +1000 </span><span
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Dear CS colleagues,<br>
The CORE committees have now finished
reviewing the approximately 400 new<br>
and existing conferences that were part
of this review round.<br>
More than 50% of the conferences
reviewed retained their existing rank.<br>
Consistent with our previous practice,
we publish here<br>
<<a
href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17cnG1Vgyjdu3pGdIHrvyw6HCithPAvTeDd_YB_FVOK0/edit?usp=sharing"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17cnG1Vgyjdu3pGdIHrvyw6HCithPAvTeDd_YB_FVOK0/edit?usp=sharing</a>><br>
a list of all planned ranking changes,
allowing a short period for any<br>
additional information if community
members consider there has been an<br>
error of judgement.* If you wish to
potentially question a ranking change,<br>
please notify your intent with an email
to <a
href="mailto:lin.padgham@gmail.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
lin.padgham@gmail.com</a><br>
<<a
href="mailto:lin.padgham@gmail.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">lin.padgham@gmail.com</a>>,
with subject "Rankings <confname>"
by April 18th.*<br>
You will then be provided with the
submission and the detailed decision<br>
report, referencing the data on which
the decision was based. *If you<br>
consider you have additional data which
may change the committee's<br>
recommendation, this must be provided by
April 25th*. Committees will then<br>
review this, prior to finalisation and
upload of the new CORE conference<br>
ranking.<br>
Regards,<br>
Lin (CORE Rankings Co-ordinator)<br>
<br>
Lin Padgham<br>
Professor in Artificial Intelligence<br>
Computer Science, RMIT University<br>
Melbourne, Australia.<br>
ph. +61 3 9925 3214 (but email works
better)<br>
(please note I only work Wednesdays)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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