Introduzir nova alternativa para a atribuição de papers a revisores. Nessa alternativa, o general chair pode fazer a atribuição dos papers utilizando uma abordagem em lote; ou seja, fazendo a carga de um arquivo com a atribuição dos papers. O cenário exemplificado abaixo corresponde a um produto configurado com essa alternativa de atribuição de papers (nome da feature = Bulk Assignement). Os passos em destaque são associados a esse comportamento.
Scenario 03 Assign papers to reviewers
Scenario Description: This scenario allows the general chair to start the process of assigning papers to the
members of the program committee. This scenario is configured according to the paper distribution process, which might be based on the explicit preferences of the member, by an inference rule engine, or by the upload of the distribution assignment data.
Id User Action Black Box System Response
1 The general chair selects the Assign
Papers to Reviewers option in the
main menu.
The system retrieves and shows the list of submitted papers. The number of reviewers assign to each paper is shown to the general chair.
2 - The system asks the general chair to upload a
file with the distribution of papers to reviewers. An exemplar file must be available to
download. 3 The general chair uploads the file with
the assignment distribution. The system verifies that the uploaded file is syntactically correct.
4 - The system updates the assignment of papers
to reviewers, according to the data present in the uploaded file.
5 The general chair selects the Check
Distribution of Papers option. The system verifies that all papers have been assigned to at least three reviewers and that each reviewer have been assigned to a uniformly distribution of papers. If any fault is found, the system will not allow the program chair to close the assignment and this process repeat until all constraints have been solved. 6 The general chair selects the Close
Assignment of Papers option. The system sends the evaluation forms and URLS of assigned papers to each reviewer. 7 The general chair selects the Close
Assignment of Papers option. The system sends the evaluation forms and URLS of assigned papers to each reviewer.
8 The system starts the period of paper
evaluation, allowing the members of the program committee to send their revisions.
Exclusão da feature que permite detectar conflitos de interesse automaticamente. Para representar o comportamento da linha de produtos atendendo essa solicitação de mudança, é necessário copiar os cenários impactados por essa feature e incluir uma notação identificando se os cenários como um todo foram excluídos ou apenas alguns passos relacionados. No caso da abordagem SVCM, também é necessário excluir as referências a essa feature no modelo de configuração.
Introduzir o suporte opcional a campos customizados para a submissão de artigos. Para esta solicitação de mudança, estamos interessados apenas no efeito que a mesma requer para submissão de arquivos
considerando campos customizados. O comportamento associado a essa feature é descrito no cenário
abaixo.
O cenário ilustrado a seguir pertence a um produto configurado com as seguintes features relacionadas: File Type = (PDF, DOC)
Optional Fields = Abstract, Custom Fields not (Auto Validation)
Scenario 01 Submit a Paper
Scenario Description: This scenario allows authors to submit their papers. It can be configured according to
optional fields (abstract, conflict of interest, and so on), the accepted format of papers, and post submission processes (such as auto validation).
Id User Action Black Box System Response
1 The author selects the Submit Paper option in the main menu.
The system asks the main author to create an authentication profile (that requires an email address and password).
2 The main author informs the email address and password.
The system creates the author authentication profile,
and asks him to inform - the paper's title, and
- for each author, the name, address and affiliation.
- the related topics of the paper 3 The main author informs the paper's
title, authors' data, and related topics. Selects the Proceed option.
The system updates the paper's submission with the informed title, authors' data, and related topics.
4 - The system asks the main author to fill in the
paper's abstract 5 The main author fills in the paper's
abstract and selects the Proceed option. The system verifies that the abstract does not have the maximum number of characters allowed in the conference.
6 - The system updates the paper's submission
with the informed abstract.
7 - The system asks the main author to fill in the
custom fields, which are specific for this conference.
8 The main author fills in the custom
fields. The system updates the paper's submission with the informed custom fields.
9 - The system asks the main author to upload the
paper in one of the valid formats (PDF, DOC) 10 The main author uploads the file
corresponding to the submitted version of the paper.
The system updates the paper's submission with the uploaded file.
11 - The system presents a summary of the
submission and sends a message to the paper's authors.
Alterar o comportamento opcional relacionado com o preenchimento de conflito de interesses durante a submissão de artigos. De acordo com essa solicitação de mudança, exemplificada no cenário abaixo, o autor principal deve apresentar um comentário para cada conflito reportado. Os cenários ilustrados a seguir pertencem a um produto configurado com as seguintes features relacionadas:
File Type = (PDF, PS)
Optional Fields = Conflicts of Interest not (Auto Validation)
Scenario 01 Submit a Paper
Scenario Description: This scenario allows authors to submit their papers. It can be configured according to
optional fields (abstract, conflict of interest, and so on), the accepted format of papers, and post submission processes (such as auto validation).
Id User Action Black Box System Response
1 The author selects the Submit Paper
option in the main menu. The system asks the main author to create an authentication profile (that requires an email address and password).
2 The main author informs the email address
and password. The system creates the author authentication profile, and asks him to inform - the paper's title, and
- for each author, the name, address and affiliation. - the related topics of the paper
3 The main author informs the paper's title, authors' data, and related topics. Selects the Proceed option.
The system updates the paper's submission with the informed title, authors' data, and related topics.
4 - The system asks the main author to inform any conflict
of interest with the members of the program committee.
5 The main author selects the members of the program committee that have any conflict of interest.
The system requires the main author to provide a comment for each conflict identified.
6 The main author fills in a comment for each conflict.
The system updates the paper's submission with conflicts and respective comments.
7 - The system asks the main author to upload the paper
in one of the valid formats (PDF, DOC). 8 The main author uploads the file
corresponding to the submitted version of the paper.
The system updates the paper's submission with the uploaded file.
9 - The system presents a summary of the submission
Introduzir o suporte obrigatório ao envio de resumos para os membros do comitê interessados nos tópicos de pesquisa de um determinado artigo submetido. O comportamento associado é descrito nos fluxos abaixo, alterados pela inclusão desta feature obrigatória. Note que, conforme descrito nos cenários a seguir, essa feature requer atualização em todos os cenários que permitem a submissão de artigos (seja ela feita on-line ou offline). Os passos associados a essa mudança estão destacados.
Os cenários ilustrados a seguir pertencem a um produto configurado com as seguintes features relacionadas:
File Type = (PDF, PS) Optional Fields = none Off-line Paper Submission not (Auto Validation) Scenario 01 Submit a Paper
Scenario Description: This scenario allows authors to submit their papers. It can be configured according to
optional fields (abstract, conflict of interest, and so on), the accepted format of papers, and post submission processes (such as auto validation).
Id User Action Black Box System Response
1 The author selects the Submit Paper option in the main menu.
The system asks the main author to create an authentication profile (that requires an email address and password).
2 The main author informs the email address and password.
The system creates the author authentication profile, and asks him to inform
- the paper's title, and
- for each author, the name, address and affiliation. - the related topics of the paper
3 The main author informs the paper's title, authors' data, and related topics. Selects the Proceed option.
The system updates the paper's submission with the informed title, authors' data, and related topics.
4 - The system asks the main author to upload the
paper in one of the valid formats (PDF, PS) 5 The main author uploads the file
corresponding to the submitted
version of the paper.
The system updates the paper's submission with the uploaded file.
6 - The system presents a summary of the submission
and sends a message to the paper's authors.
7 - The system retrieves the members of the program
committee that are interested in the paper’s related topics.
8 - For each retrieved member of the program
committee, the system sends a message with the paper abstract.
Scenario 02 Off-line submission of papers
Scenario Description: This optional scenario allows authors to submit their papers in the offline mode. It is
available in products that do not require extended data (such as abstract of conflicts). Before starting this scenario, an author must download and fill the electronic form to be uploaded together with the version of the paper.
1 The author selects the Offline
Submission option in the main
menu.
The system asks the main author to create an authentication profile (that requires an email address and password).
2 The main author informs the email
address and password. The system creates the author authentication profile, and asks him to upload both electronic form and paper.
3 The main author uploads the requested files.
The system extracts from the electronic form the submission data.
4 - The system creates a conventional
submission of the paper.
5 - The system presents a summary of the
submission and sends a message to the paper's authors.
6 - The system retrieves the members of the
program committee that are interested in the paper’s related topics.
7 - For each retrieved member of the program
committee, the system sends a message with the paper abstract.
Introduzir o suporte opcional a lista de discussões para auxiliar na revisão de artigos. Esse comportamento opcional é iniciado no momento em que a distribuição de artigos para revisores é concluída, criando listas de discussão envolvendo os revisores de cada paper. O comportamento associado é descrito nos fluxos abaixo, alterados pela inclusão desta feature opcional (Forum). Note que, conforme descrito nos
cenários a seguir, essa feature requer atualização em todos os cenários que permitem a distribuição de papers para os revisores (seja essa distribuição automática ou não). O cenário exemplificado
abaixo corresponde a um produto com atribuição manual de papers a revisores (Preference Base). Adicionalmente, os passos introduzidos por essa mudança estão em destaque.
Scenario 03 Assign papers to reviewers
Scenario Description: This scenario allows the general chair to start the process of assigning papers to the
members of the program committee. This scenario is configured according to the paper distribution process, which might be based on the explicit preferences of the member or by an inference rule engine.
Id User Action Black Box System Response
1 The general chair selects the Assign
Papers to Reviewers option in the
main menu.
The system retrieves and shows the list of submitted papers. The number of reviewers assign to each paper is shown to the general chair.
2 The general chair selects a specific
paper. The system retrieves the reviewers that have previously informed interest in the research topics of the paper. The number of papers that has already been assigned to each reviewer is shown.
3 The general chair selects one of the reviewers and click on the Assign option.
The system assigns the paper to the selected reviewer. The process may be repeated until the general chair selects the option check distribution of papers.
4 The general chair selects the Check
Distribution of Papers option. The system verifies that all papers have been assigned to at least three reviewers and that each reviewer have been assigned to a uniformly distribution of papers. If any fault is found, the system will not able the program chair to close the assignment and this process repeat until all constraints have been solved. 5 The general chair selects the Close
Assignment of Papers option. The system sends the evaluation forms and URLS of assigned papers to each reviewer.
6 - The system asks the general chair to inform
which papers a forum should be created. 7 The general chair selects the list of
papers that might have the reviewing process enhanced by a forum.
The system creates a forum for each selected paper, adding the corresponding reviewers as participants.
8 - The system starts the period of paper
evaluation, allowing the members of the program committee to send their revisions.
