论文标题
通过镜子组织虚拟会议：ACM电子能量2020体验
Organizing Virtual Conferences through Mirrors: The ACM e-Energy 2020 Experience
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论文摘要
世界范围内的共同19日大流行的出现迫使学术会议完全以虚拟的方式举行。尽管先前的研究倡导虚拟会议在节省能源和成本方面的优点，但组织者越来越面临系统地计划和执行它们的前景，以便为所有参与者提供丰富的会议经验。从2020年3月开始，实际上举行了数十次会议。过去的会议揭示了从预算计划到选择支持虚拟平台的许多挑战。其中，发现了两个特殊的挑战：1）如何向地理分布的与会者进行谈判，以及2）如何刺激与会者之间的社交互动。这是学术会议的两个重要目标。在本文中，我们主张一种学术会议的镜像计划方法。更具体地说，会议程序是在多个并行（镜像）程序中执行的，因此每个镜像程序都可以符合不同的时区。这可以有效解决第一个挑战。
The emergence of the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic has forced academic conferences to be held entirely in a virtual manner. While prior studies have advocated the merits of virtual conferences in terms of energy and cost savings, organizers are increasingly facing the prospect of planning and executing them systematically, in order to deliver a rich conference-attending-experience for all participants. Starting from March 2020, tens of conferences have been held virtually. Past conferences have revealed numerous challenges, from budget planning, to selecting the supporting virtual platforms. Among these, two special challenges were identified: 1) how to deliver talks to geo-distributed attendees and 2) how to stimulate social interactions among attendees. These are the two important goals of an academic conference. In this paper, we advocate a mirror program approach for academic conferences. More specifically, the conference program is executed in multiple parallel (mirrored) programs, so that each mirror program can fit a different time zone. This can effectively address the first challenge.
