Guidelines
Guidelines for chairs, presenters and discussants
Keep time: each session that consists of 4 papers runs for 1 hr 50 minutes, meaning about 15 minutes presentation per paper, 4 minutes for each discussant in total and 10 minutes discussion per paper. Total: 1 hr 50 minutes.
Due to last minute dropouts, some sessions may have only 3 or even 2 papers. In this case, please do not take more time for the presentation or for the discussant's comments, so as to allow attendees to move to other sessions at the end of the last paper. Also, follow as much as possible the order on the programme, as participants may like to move between sessions to listen to papers of their interest.
Guidelines for discussants:
The aim is not to give a complete discussion of the paper (there is no time for this) but to pick up a few key points that are possibly problematic or at least worth discussing further. The role of the discussant is to start the discussion, so a very short discussion, for example raising 1 or 2 key problems or questions, would be ideal. There is definitely no need to summarize the paper, as one would do with written comment; so please refrain from that and just immediately come to the point. Note that you only have a few minutes.
Guidelines for chairs:
Please keep time during the session, keep the order of the presentation as printed, ensure the discussants are brief and to the point, and organize the discussion.