Parallel Paper Submission

[Thomas G. Dietterich]

One of the most precious resources in the research community is our
time.  Unlimited parallel submission requires more time spent
reviewing papers.  This would probably have the effect of reducing the
quality of the reviewing and reducing the willingness of referees to
agree to donate their time.  We need to strike a compromise between
the one extreme of allowing authors to "shotgun" their papers to
multiple conferences and the other extreme of allowing authors only a
single chance to publish a paper.  One possible compromise is the
current arrangement whereby authors are permitted to submit to
multiple conferences/journals but that these submissions must be
sequential.  This has the added advantage that the paper can be
improved with each submission in light of the reviews obtained from
the previous submission. 

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Thomas G. Dietterich              Voice: 541-737-5559
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