Introduction

From the Media Technology seminar "Artificial Intelligence for Cocktail Parties" (Jan-Feb 2007), 6 out of 15 student papers were selected for pursuit of publication. The 9 student authors of these selected papers are joined in this publication group to review and rewrite their papers, and to submit them to the BNAIC 2007 conference (19th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence), which takes place November 2007 in Utrecht.

This publication group is organized and supervised by Maarten Lamers of the Media Technology MSc program at Leiden University.

Credits

Students who participate in and complete the publication group can obtain 1 ECTS credit for this. Credits are awarded individually, not per-paper. Grades are not awarded, but a PASS/FAIL system is applied. To be awarded the credit, you must:

  1. complete all the tasks of the publication group in time. Missing a deadline means that you will not be awarded the credit. This strict rule is enforced because your sloppiness may strongly affect the publication of others in this group.
  2. formally submit your paper to the BNAIC 2007 conference as part of this publication group.
  3. attend the conference and present your work, if your paper was accepted for publication. If your paper is not accepted, you will still get the the credit point.

Steps

  1. DECIDE: Read the following steps and inform me if you want to go along with this. Obviously, it will requires some work (although not much). Please honestly consider if you can/want to do the work involved, because others may depend on it. Send me an e-mail this week to tell me if you want to join this publication group.
  2. PREPARE: You read my comments on your paper and make changes accordingly if you wish. My comments are written on prints of your papers that can be found in the office of Brit Hopmann. Also, place your paper in the official BNAIC format (see www.cs.uu.nl/bnaic2007/submission.html). This shouldn't be too much work.
  3. REVIEW: We use a schedule to review each others papers; meaning that each paper is read by another (group of) authors and commented. Since the papers are short, I propose to have this done before Friday, June 8.
  4. REWRITE: Possibly make changes based on the comments from the review. I propose to have this done before Sunday, June 17.
  5. SUBMIT: Armed with the resulting papers, I will confront the Co-Chair of BNAIC and propose a special Media Technology session. I will also propose to be the session chair myself. If he agrees, that would be nice and we're in. Otherwise we submit the papers as regular papers to BNAIC anyway. The submission deadline is Monday, June 25.

Important Dates

Publication group review step deadlineFriday, June 8
Publication group rewrite step deadlineSunday, June 17
BNAIC submission deadlineMonday, June 25
BNAIC notification of acceptanceAugust 27
BNAIC deadline for camera-ready papersSeptember 17
BNAIC conferenceNovember 5-6, Utrecht

Step 2: The Papers

After step 2 in the above step-list, these are the resulting papers.

Step 3: Review Schedule

Below is the review schedule. Behind you name is the paper that you are assigned to review. The papers can be downloaded from the above list.

Review the paper assigned to you carefully, and give detailed comments. Look carefully at: structure, completeness, and consistency. Comments can be sent digitally, but may also be scribbled onto a print of the paper. Feel free to read/review more papers if you want to, but make sure to review at least the paper assigned to you.

IMPORTANT: The deadline for reviewing each other's papers is Friday, June 8. Others may work hard to review your paper in time, so make sure that you do the same! If you miss the deadline, you will prevent someone else from submitting his/her paper BNAIC 2007; this is unacceptable!

Step 4: Rewriting

Change your paper using the comments that you received from the review step. This is the final editing step, so make sure that your paper is ready for submission.

Step 5: Submission

Carefully read the submission guidelines and/or instructions for authors on the conference website (http://www.cs.uu.nl/bnaic2007/). Some remarks: