"parallel submission" -- software

[LORINCZ, Andras]

Information distributing software with ACCESS CONTROL is available.
If you wish to solve the original problem of Gabriele Dorothea Scheler
and Johann Martin Philipp Schumann, you need to decide
                            ONLY
about access control at connectionists mailing list. Connectionists
mail list serves as an advertisement place for technical reportss and
papers. anyway.  It is then a good idea to start parallel submission
at this single point.  There is not too much controversy in this
statement.

Here is an initiating suggestion, which may need to be
polished/ironed/confronted.

The author uploads his/her paper to to connectionists.  Notification
goes to everybody who has subsrciption.  Uploading and notification
are unmoderated.  (One can set a filter his/her email not to accept
mails from connectionists with subject 'new paper'.)  The paper is
cached at connectionists and becomes available for downloading.
Anybody can make a review of the paper.  Reviews are automatically
linked to the paper.  Reviews are secretive -- the reviewer has an
ssh-like communication with connectionists -- and there is a public
part of his code. The list and "top acknowledged reviewers" together
can reveal the names of "top acknowledged reviewers".

If the opinion of the reviewer is considered by the author then he/she
can write a revised version of the paper. During uploading this
revised version he/she is supposed to acknowledge the reviewer's
public code.  This is clearly in sake of the author -- provided that
he/she would like to promote the reviewer. In turn, works which need
improvments and are improved by the reviewer will serve as the basis
of selection.

If a reviewer is acknowledged, then this reviewer receives a credit
(impact) point (factor). There is a ranking of reviewers according to
their impact factors.

There is a list of the top $n$ most acknowledged reviewers.  The names
of these $n$ reviewers can be discovered for the public.  This is a
decision of the reviewer if he/she belongs to this top. These
acknowledged reviewers decide (vote) if a paper becomes 'accepted' or
not.  A paper can be accepted without acknowledgment, for example, if
it is perfect.  Acceptance means qualification. Acceptance may also
mean the opening a forum for discussion about the paper -- which is
open reviewing written by people (alike to discussions at BBS). Open
reviewing happens through connectionists -- this will be made by
another notification list. Top $N>n$ acknowledged reviewers have the
right for open reviewing. Their names are provided. In turn, $N$
acknowledged reviewers may be known to the public and $n$ top
acknowledged reviewers may vote.

Any journal can accept the paper. If an editorial board of a journal
accepts the paper then it is a question to the author whether he would
like to give the copyright to the journal or not -- he/she might be
waiting for a better journal, or, alternatively, -- he/she might have
submitted the paper to a journal at the very beginning and might have
given the copyright to that journal to start with. If copyright is
given to a journal, it should be noted for connectionists.

It is the journals' problem how to deal with this challenge.  The
experienced shift of the editorial board of MLJ to JMLR provides a
feeling about the possible outcome.

Regards,
Andras Lorincz
http://people.inf.elte.hu/lorincz


P.S. Anyone could build this software. There are freeware solutions,
such as 'mailman'. We have also built one with intelligent search
options. It has been thoroughly tested for Windows Explorer, but would
not support Netscape. Any organization might decide to write/set
up/buy a similar software. This seems to be a most probable step in
the near future.  In this case we shall experience a selective process
similar to the evolution of electronic markets: Lots of attempts will
start and only a few will survive.  So, get started!

P.P.S. I have put a paper onto the web. It is closely related to this
topic It will appear in the Special Issue of IJFCS (International
Journal of Foundations of Computer Science) on Mining the Web Title:
"New Generation of the World Wide Web: Anticipating the birth of the
'hostess' race"
http://people.inf.elte.hu/lorincz/ParallelSubmission/Lorincz_et_al_Intelligent_Crawler_revised.zip
The paper is in a WinZipped postscript file.

P.P.P.S. I like the idea of parallel submission. I have the feeling
that some reviewers are negligent, may be lacking time, may be
students (and lacking knowledge) of authorities on the field, and may
be biased agaynszt non-nateave-Inglish-spieking autorz.  :-)