I've been doing a lot of conference-related work lately. As a co-chair for DOA with Vinny and Werner, I recently had to go through the paper selection process. It's never any fun, especially when some of the PC members don't do their reviews! But we got through it, and put together our list of accepted papers and posters. Overall DOA is looking like it'll be a good conference again this year.
Earlier this week I finished reviews for two other conferences as well. One is the ICSOC conference. Reviews were due Tuesday, so to the best of my knowledge the paper selection process isn't finished yet. The papers I reviewed were OK for the most part, except for one that was absolutely dreadful. You have to wonder sometimes whether people who submit such papers have ever read any papers accepted at other similar conferences? Or do they just write something without checking references, related work, etc., and just blindly submit it?
Reviews were also due earlier this week for The 3rd Workshop on Reflective and Adaptive Middleware, to be held at the Middleware 2004 conference. Reflection and adaptivity are important aspects of modern middleware and have been gaining dramatically in popularity lately, so while reviewing I wasn't surprised to find that some of the submissions to this workshop were quite good.
Phew! That's it for conferences for the next while -- so maybe I can get back to writing some code! -- except that I still need to come up with a title and abstract for my JAOO talk next month. I'm uncharacteristically late in submitting it. It's in the SOA track, so at least I know what the theme needs to be.