Sample Review Form

Recommendation:

Reject: Content inappropriate to the conference or has little merit
Probable Reject: Basic flaws in content or presentation or very poorly written
Marginal Tend to Reject: Not as badly flawed; major effort necessary to make acceptable but content well-covered in literature already
Marginal Tend to Accept: Content has merit, but accuracy, clarity, completeness, and/or writing should and could be improved in time
Clear Accept: Content, presentation, and writing meet professional norms; improvements may be advisable but acceptable as is
Must Accept: Candidate for outstanding paper. Suggested improvements still appropriate
 

Paper Categorization:
(Categorize this paper from highly theoretical to highly practical)

Highly theoretical
Tends towards theoretical
Balanced theory and practice
Tends toward practical
Highly practical
 

Overall Value Added to the Field:
(Check as many as appropriate)

New information
Valuable confirmation of present knowledge
Clarity to present understanding
New perspective, issue, or problem definition
Not much
Other
 

Reviewer Familiarity with Subject Matter
(Relates to the confidence you have in your review)

High
Moderate
Low

Is this paper a candidate for the best paper award?

Yes
No
Unsure

Is the paper length appropriate?

Yes
No
Unsure

If from reading the paper you know who the author is, how different is this from earlier papers on the same topic by the same author? That is, is it the same as or a slight modification of other papers, with little or no new information?

Totally or largely different from other papers
Moderately different from other papers
Totally or largely identical to other papers
Don't know
 

Optional: Which of the following session(s) would be the most appropriate for this paper?
(We use these suggestions in assigning papers to sessions for the conference, but not in determining whether the paper is accepted)

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Comments for the Program Committee (Reasons must be included for all papers, because they help us determine what to do when reviewers disagree with each other.)

Comments for the Authors (This is perhaps the most important part of the review. Please provide the author(s) with several paragraphs of constructive comments on how to improve this paper.

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