SPAA 2011 Program Chair’s Report

Rajmohan RajaramanNortheastern University

STOC 2011 Organization

SPAA 2011 Program Committee• Marcos K. Aguilera (MSR) • Susanne Albers (Humboldt U.) • Anne Beniot (ENS Lyon) • Konstantin Busch (LSU) • Shimin Chen (Intel) • Frank Dehne (Carleton U.) • Rolf Fagerberg (S. Denmark) • Pierre Fraigniaud (CNRS) • Tom Friedetzky (Durham)• M. Hajiaghayi (AT&T, Maryland)• Idit Keidar (Technion)

• Rohit Khandekar (IBM)• Hsien-Hsin S. Lee (Georgia Tech)• Victor Luchangco (Oracle)• Gopal Pandurangan (NTU & Brown)• Geppino Pucci (U. Padova)• Andrea W. Richa (ASU)• Christian Schindelhauer (Freiburg)• Sivan Toledo (Tel Aviv U.)• Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)• Jennifer Welch, (Texas A&M)

Numbers• Submissions:

– 126 (116 long + 10 short)– 108 in 2010, 114 in 2009, 128 in 2008, 130 in 2007

• Accepted papers:– 35 regular papers– 15 brief announcements

• Reviews:– At least 3 for each regular submission– >= 4 reviews for 28 papers

• Attendees:– 115 (47 students)

PC Meeting

• Review period Jan 15-Feb 20• Electronic discussion Feb 20 to March 3• A day-long phone/web conference meeting on

Friday, March 4 – PC members calling from 7 time zones– Thanks to IBM and Rohit Khandekar

• Decisions almost finalized at PC meeting– Follow-up electronic discussions March 4-8

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Geographycountry authors submitted accepted acceptance rate

Australia 1 0.33 0 0Austria 3 1.25 1 0.8Brazil 3 1 0 0Canada 14 4.28 1.75 0.41China 26 7.08 0 0Czech Republic 1 0.25 0 0Denmark 2 0.67 0 0France 19 5.58 0.5 0.09Germany 34 12.35 7.95 0.64Greece 2 1 1 1Hong Kong 5 2 0 0India 3 1.25 0 0Iran, Islamic Republic of 7 1 1 1Israel 13 4.75 2.25 0.47Italy 14 3.83 1 0.26Japan 10 3.75 0 0Korea, Republic of 7 2.25 0 0Netherlands 3 1 0 0New Zealand 1 0.25 0 0Portugal 1 0.33 0 0Russian Federation 2 1.33 0.33 0.25Singapore 1 0.33 0 0Spain 5 1.2 0 0Sweden 4 1 1 1Switzerland 10 4.73 2.73 0.58Turkey 3 1 0 0United Kingdom 22 6.65 0.87 0.13United States 131 53.53 16.62 0.31