This is the lowest number of submissions in several years, and the highest acceptance rate since 2001.
The other interesting thing is the apparent lack of papers by “real” economists. It makes one wonder how much interaction there is between the two sides of the Econ/CS “community” and whether this is just turning into an echo chamber.
It’s a bit hard to be too worried about the decline in number of submitted papers, as there are now several alternative venues directly aimed at AGT (e.g. SAGT and COMSOC which are pretty new), and with the high numbers of AGT papers submitted to general conferences (in TCS, AI, e.g. ICS which is new).
One may certainly question the PCs decision to increase the acceptance rate, but as far as I understand, this was a deliberate decision due to a certain widening in the scope of accepted papers.
The PC chairs wrote in an email to the PC that “It [the high acceptance rate, AP] is almost exclusively due to the large number of very high quality submissions we received this year.” My anecdotal impression as a PC member was that the quality of submissions was indeed very high, and it seems the acceptance threshold was naturally high as well.
Picky comment: COMSOC is non-archival so it should not have an impact on the number of submissions to EC.
usually EC gets the STOC rejects, this time the deadline was early so the AGT papers rejected from STOC were not submitted to EC. This is one reason for low submissions number.
usually EC gets the STOC rejects, this time the deadline was early so the AGT papers rejected from STOC were not submitted to EC. This is one reason for low submissions number.
Historical acceptance rates for EC have been as follows:
2010: 45/136 — 33%
2009: 40/161 — 25%
2008: 38/198 — 19%
2007: 42/154 — 27%
2006: 36/127 — 28%
2005: 32/113 — 28%
2004: 24/146 — 16%
2003: 21/110 — 19%
2001: 35/100 — 35%
2000: 29/150 — 19%
1999: 21/72 — 29%
This is the lowest number of submissions in several years, and the highest acceptance rate since 2001.
The other interesting thing is the apparent lack of papers by “real” economists. It makes one wonder how much interaction there is between the two sides of the Econ/CS “community” and whether this is just turning into an echo chamber.
It’s a bit hard to be too worried about the decline in number of submitted papers, as there are now several alternative venues directly aimed at AGT (e.g. SAGT and COMSOC which are pretty new), and with the high numbers of AGT papers submitted to general conferences (in TCS, AI, e.g. ICS which is new).
One may certainly question the PCs decision to increase the acceptance rate, but as far as I understand, this was a deliberate decision due to a certain widening in the scope of accepted papers.
The PC chairs wrote in an email to the PC that “It [the high acceptance rate, AP] is almost exclusively due to the large number of very high quality submissions we received this year.” My anecdotal impression as a PC member was that the quality of submissions was indeed very high, and it seems the acceptance threshold was naturally high as well.
Picky comment: COMSOC is non-archival so it should not have an impact on the number of submissions to EC.
The reason probably for so many “high quality” papers is the large program committee.
The matchings paper by Hatfield and Kominers is by ‘real’ economists (Stanford and Harvard, resp.)
J. Hatfield and S. Kominers, Matching in Networks with Bilateral Contracts
usually EC gets the STOC rejects, this time the deadline was early so the AGT papers rejected from STOC were not submitted to EC. This is one reason for low submissions number.
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The matchings paper by Hatfield and Kominers is by ‘real’ economists (Stanford and Harvard, resp.)
J. Hatfield and S. Kominers, Matching in Networks with Bilateral Contracts
usually EC gets the STOC rejects, this time the deadline was early so the AGT papers rejected from STOC were not submitted to EC. This is one reason for low submissions number.