Artifact Evaluation Artifact - Announcements - Reviewing Clarification

Date: July 9, 2013
To: (all 24 AEC members)
Subject: OOPSLA AEC: Meaning of fields in review form

Dear OOPSLA'13 AEC Member,

*REVIEWER_NAME* asked for clarification of the purpose of fields "10 - Overall assessment" vs. "11 - Rationale for assessment" on the review form. Thanks, *REVIEWER_NAME*, for bringing this up!

Here's our answer:

Our idea was to use "10 - Overall assessment" for a short high-level summary of the assessment (possibly in the form of a couple of bullet items), while using "11 - Rationale for assessment" for a more extensive explanation/substantiation (expanding on those bullet items and discussing other, more secondary, issues).

The main use for "10 - Overall assessment" will be during the discussion and decision making phases, to simplify and speed up the comparison of different reviews and artifacts.

Best,
Matthias & Steve