RESPONSIBILITIES OF SPIN 2005 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS 

1. Solicit high-quality technical papers from colleagues, and
distribute paper and electronic conference announcements at your local
site.  Program committee members are encouraged to submit papers;
submissions from PC members will be evaluated according to the same
high standards used to evaluate all other submissions.  The Program
Chair will not submit papers.  We currently anticipate the deadline
for submission of abstracts to be Friday April 1, 2005.

2. Read abstracts of technical papers submitted to the workshop, and
bid on the abstracts, indicating papers you would like to review and
papers on which you have a conflict of interest. Carry out this
bidding process within one week after the submission deadline, by
Friday April 8, 2005.

3. Review the technical papers that are assigned to you by the
reviewing deadline, using a Web-based reviewing system that we will
set up.  The PC will consist of approximately 15 members, so assuming
we receive 50 full paper submissions, you would be asked to review no
more than 10 papers.  The deadline for submitting reviews to the
Web-based reviewing system is Friday May 6, 2005. Note that you are
responsible for being familiar with the papers assigned to you and
represent them at the electronic discussions even if you delegate
reviewing to students or colleagues.

4. Attend the electronic program committee discussions to be held from
Monday May 9 to Friday May 13, 2005 and discuss papers that you have
reviewed. Since PC members are in different time zones, it is not
practical to have all PC members online at the same time. However, it
is important that you respond to discussion on the papers you have
reviewed promptly. Notifications will be sent out to authors on Monday
May 16, 2005.

5. Strictly abide by the rules on conflicts of interest. You are
considered to have a conflict of interest on a paper that has an
author or co-author in any of the following categories:
(1) yourself,
(2) your past and current graduate students,
(3) your graduate advisors,
(4) members of your research group within the last 5 years,
(5) a co-author of a paper submitted for publication within the last 5 years,
(6) an employee of your immediate organization (academic department, research
     lab unit, etc.) within the last 5 years,
(7) someone with whom you have had a significant funding or financial
     relationship within the last 5 years, 
(8) a member of your family or anyone you consider a close personal friend, or
(9) someone whose work, for whatever reason, you cannot evaluate objectively.

You will not be allowed to see the reviews of papers on which you have
conflicts, and at the program committee meeting you will not be given
access to discussion of such papers. The Program Chair will be able
to view all reviews for all papers, but he will assign an alternate
chair for any papers on which he has a conflict.