1. Conference Reviewing Best Practices

2. Panelists Marie desJardins University of Maryland Baltimore County Ariel Felner Ben-Gurion University, Israel Kristian Kersting Fraunhofer IAIS and University of Bonn, Germany Michael Littman Brown University Ashish Sabharwal IBM Research

3. Prepared Remarks Marie desJardins The reviewing process Kristian Kersting In dubio pro reo: Giving the benefit of the doubt Ashish Sabharwal Junior reviewers: Making your review more relevant Ariel Felner How deep the reviewing process can get: A case study with a AAAI-13 paper Michael Littman Ethical issues for submitters and reviewers

4. Discussion Time! Possible Topics... Effective reviewing practices Handling “comment period” dynamics and author feedback “Growing into” becoming an SPC / organizing committee member Ethics of author/reviewer conflicts, duplicate submissions, etc. Alternative reviewing models: Pros and cons Scoring systems Junior vs. senior reviewer perspectives Delegating to subreviewers: When and how... ???