@cse.unl.edu.
The Area TPC chair guidelines are at: Guidelines for Area TPC Chairs.
The regular TPC member guidelines are at: Guidelines for TPC Members.
Non-TPC paper reviewers guidelines are at: Guidelines for Reviewers .
During the INFOCOM TPC Meeting on Saturday, October 27, the TPC attendees will be partitioned into 13 discussion groups. Each group will handle a set of papers (around 25) in the Discuss category. These papers have gone through at least 3 regular reviews, an online discussion phase, TPC lead review, additional reviews (if any), and Area TPC chair recommendation, TPC chair decision and were explicitly marked for Discussion at the TPC meeting.
The TPC meeting (discussion) groups are:
Please click on the "Papers" and then click on "List". By default, all papers with "active" status and the following fields: Paper number, Paper title, Conference name are selected. Please note that for the TPC meeting discussion groups, you must check the box marked since this is the only category of papers that are available for discussion. Please add other useful fields to include such as "TPC group", "Authors with affiliation and country" and "Weighted average of review scores." Then click on the List papers button. You will be presented a list of all the papers in your group with the appropriate fields.
Please list all the papers as described above and verify that you do not have a conflict of interest (see description below) with any of the authors of each paper. If you do have a Conflict of Interest, please inform the other discussion group members during the meeting and recuse yourself from the discussion of the paper by stepping outside. Please review the INFOCOM 2008 Definition of Conflict of Interest for determining the set of individuals you need to list on EDAS. People/institutions that you are in "conflict of interest" consist of the following:
We have tried to make sure that there is no primary conflict of interest (i.e., a discussion group member's paper isn't discussed in that same group). However, if you do identify specific instances of potential conflict of interest, please let us know immediately. Please note that for cases where you have a conflict of interest with a paper authors because you are from the same institution etc., you can simply recuse yourself from the discussion of the paper (see two cases below).
From your Groupleader (Area TPC Chair) page, please click on the Papers->List tab. Then please click on "List papers" button after checking the default boxes - Status to include "Active", Fields to include "Paper number", "Paper title", "Conference name" You may also check the following boxes "Number of TPC reviews completed" and "Number of regular reviews completed" You will then be presented a page with the EDAS ID and title of all the papers in your group. You may click on the EDAS number for a paper (in the first column) to see the paper reviews, TPC summary and rating as well as the discussion messages among the TPC lead reviewer and regular reviewers for that paper.
While listing the papers as discussed above, check also the box marked "Weighted average of TPC scores: Recommendation." Once you are presented with a list of papers in your group, click on the column heading "TPC Avg." Now, you will find the list of papers sorted by the TPC summary rating. (4.0=Accept; 3.0=Needs additional review; 2.0=Discuss at TPC meeting; 1.0=Reject; 0.0=TPC review/summary missing).
If you are an ATPC chair in charge of an area, and you are planning to attend the meeting, you will be asked to lead the discussions of these papers to an audience which will include the TPC/regular reviewers (TPC members) for the paper. If you are a TPC member (primary or backup), and you are planning to attend the meeting, please log in to your discussion group page (following instructions on this page) and go through the papers in your group. Please pay close attention to those papers for which you have been a TPC lead reviewer or regular reviewer and which appear in your discussion group. In case you have served as a reviewer for other "Discuss" category papers in other discussion groups, please note that you will not be asked to participate in the discussions of more than one group. We have made every effort to ensure that at least some of your reviewed papers are discussed in the group to which you are assigned. If you have time, you may browse through the papers, reviews and discussion messages of all the papers in your discussion group (around 25) ahead of the meeting.
Please refer to the Meeting Information Page: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~cheng/info.html.
When you "List papers" in the "Being discussed" category (see instructions above), please select the "TPC group" checkbox before listing the papers. You should see the TPC meeting group number (1-14) listed for each of the papers in your group. Each TPC meeting attendee is assigned to only one discussion group.
Please ensure that you are logging in to EDAS (http://edas.info) using the correct email address (login ID) for your INFOCOM 2008 role. If you had not registered for the TPC meeting (see Registering for TPC Meeting - HOWTO below) through EDAS or had changed your plans after initially indicating that you will not be able to attend the meeting, you may not have access to the Discuss papers in a TPC meeting group. Please contact the TPC Co-chairs immediately by email ahead of the meeting or during the registration process at the meeting location.
Please note that a paper on EDAS can only be in one of the following different (mutually exclusive) status categories.
Please note that access to the "Notes" section is not available for the TPC meeting attendees (Area TPC chairs or TPC members). Please contact the TPC Co-chairs for this information.
Please note that access to reviewer identities is not available for the TPC meeting attendees (Area TPC chairs or TPC members). Please contact the TPC Co-chairs for this information.
This information may be obtained by clicking on the "People" tab and then clicking on the "TPC" tab in your TPC meeting attendee page (see instructions above on how to access this page). We request that you do not reveal information to others such as the specific discussion group that you belong to, the other TPC meeting attendees in your group, the list of papers in your group or any other details of the discussions at the TPC meeting. Note: The group assignment of TPC meeeting attendees is subject to change, for load balancing, conflict of interest and other reasons.
No, you are not required to read all the other papers. If a paper not being reviewed by you is discussed, you can read the reviews and listen to the discussion. If you can participate in the discussion, that would be great.
Please see the section on Conflict of Interest above.
Please see below.
TPC Meeting Attendee Web page Steps:
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1. Login on EDAS
2. Click on "My TPCs" (yellow colored Tab on the top of the page)
3. Click on "INFOCOM 2008" link.
{NOTE: You may see a line like this: ignore it & follow
instructions below! "Currently not reviewing any papers
for this conference."}
4. Click on the "Papers" Tab
{NOTE: not to be confused with "My papers"}
5. Click on the "List" Tab (under "Papers")
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Useful things to tick in EDAS paper "list" page:
{NOTE: there are several similar looking lines: make sure you
check the correct ones}
[] Being discussed
{IMPORTANT NOTE: By default, only the "Active" category is selected. Please
"unselect" Active and select the "Being discussed" category.}
[] Sequence number
[] Paper number
[] Paper title
[] Authors with affiliation and country
[] TPC group
[] Span (max-min) of weighted review scores
{NOTE: large span => higher variance in reviews}
[] Weighted average of review scores
[] Weighted average of non-TPC review scores
{NOTE: Both of these weighted averages contain the same value}
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6. Click on "List Papers" Button to see the papers list. You should
have around 25 papers in your list.
7. Please click on the paper number (EDAS ID) to see more details about
the papers, the anonymized reviews and the anonymized discussion messages.
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Perhaps, you have heard of Triskaidekaphobia? Seriously, Group 13 was merged with another group to create a reasonably sized discussion group.
When you log in to your EDAS page (http://edas.info), please click on the "My TPCs" tab), you will then be shown a list of all the conferences for which you are a TPC member. In the row for "INFOCOM 2008", you will see the icon 
under the column "TPC meeting".
Please click on the icon and answer the following two questions: (a) I
will attend the TPC meeting (b) I will attend the TPC dinner. You may
indicate in the Comments field additional information such as "I will
be arriving late", "I will have to leave early" etc.
You may indicate your dietary restrictions by updating your profile on EDAS. There is a link provided to your profile in your TPC meeting page.
Please click on the "Submit" button when you are finished.
When you log in to your EDAS page (http://edas.info), please click on
the "My TPCs" tab), you will then be shown a list of all the
conferences for which you are a TPC member. In the row for "INFOCOM
2008", you will see the icon 
under the column "TPC
meeting".
Please click on the icon and you will see your earlier response (both the radio buttons
and the text box).
Thanks again for your valuable contribution to INFOCOM 2008. We look forward to working with you to make the program a success.