COMPSAC 2024 Participants Survey Results

What role did you have in the conference? (#5)

How may times have you attended COMPSAC before? (#11)

How helpful was the conference staff? (#13)

How much pre-event information was provided to you to help you better understand the conference? (#14)

In the future conferences, what type of media would you prefer to receive information before and during the conference? (#15)

What was the reason you chose to participate in the conference, and what were your expectations from the conference? (#22)

• find useful inspection
• flagship conference
• High quality conference, expecting good quality research dissemination.
• I have a paper accepted at the conference
• I participated in the conference as a co-author and to survey studies related to our work.
• I wanted to get an understanding of state-of-the-art research in software engineering and AI. My expectations were partially met in as much as some talks were fantastic and some surprisingly disappointing sometimes due to the ineffective communication skills of the presentation, and, in a few occasions, very surprisingly given the acceptance rate of this conference, due to the paucity of the research,
• It seemed like a good conference in the area of ​​Computing and I participated to present and publish my paper.
• Learning new knowledge
• Most prestigious, important and organised events. To learn about new technology and opportunities to meeting excellent people.
• My research paper was accepted in this conference, and I expected to present my paper against number of people.
• My student made a presentation at the conference, and expected to have fruitful discussion.
• Paper was accepted. Good for networking. Convenient conference venue.
• recommended by a colleague, and Scopus-indexed
• The conference is a top ranked one and its been running for 45+ years.
• The good reputation and professionalism of this conference.
• The themes of the conferences (tracks) cover multi-disciplinary areas.
• The timing was right for a prominent international conference that I had heard of even outside my field to be held in Japan, and the field of paper submission was broad enough that I could submit my research paper to the conference.
• The topics of the conference match my scientific interests. I expect to meet researchers who share my interests in person and create collaborations for the future.
• Theme of the conference, and location
• This is a well-known conference in the field of software engineering, which can effectively showcase my achievements. And it is convenient to participate as it is held in Asia. I hope the conference will be held on a larger scale.
• To catch up with the recent trend in the computing research area. Networking with researchers.
• To increase my experience in the application of AI in medicine.

Did the conference meet your expectations? (#23)

Did the conference help you with new learning or knowledge? (#24)

Did the conference help you with expanding/strengthening your social network? (#25)

Please indicate your overall satisfaction with the following aspects of the conference (paper submission). (#26)

Please indicate your overall satisfaction with the following aspects of the conference (paper notification). (#27)

Please indicate your overall satisfaction with the following aspects of the conference (registration). (#28)

Please indicate your overall satisfaction with the following aspects of the conference (program / timetable). (#29)

Please indicate your overall satisfaction with the following aspects of the conference (venue). (#30)

Please indicate your overall satisfaction with the following aspects of the conference (sessions). (#31)

Please indicate your overall satisfaction with the following aspects of the conference (plenary keynote). (#32)

Please indicate your overall satisfaction with the following aspects of the conference (plenary panel). (#33)

Please indicate your overall satisfaction with the following aspects of the conference (lunch). (#34)

Please indicate your overall satisfaction with the following aspects of the conference (coffee break). (#35)

Please indicate your overall satisfaction with the following aspects of the conference (reception (July 2)). (#36)

Please indicate your overall satisfaction with the following aspects of the conference (banquet (July 3)). (#37)

What are the things that you liked the most? (#38)

• 1) The research presentations I selected and that were delivered by competent English-speaking persons 2) the proceedings 3) the banquet
• Banquet
• community and great research
• diversity of topics
• Everything was organised and everyone was like one family member. Professor sorel. Professor Iqbal. Professor Hiro Dave all are really excellent. Volunteers were unique. Above all Osaka is unforgettable. People in Japan are amazing.
• good selection of submissions, good discussions, enjoyable people.
• I enjoyed the good old fashioned banquet. ACM conferences I often attend don't hold banquets like this.
• Networking
• Plenary keynotes
• session
• Social Networking
• Technical sessions were small enough to enable Q&A, discussions with the presenters. Everyone was very friendly.
• The banquet was great.
• The networking and topics
• The professionalism of paper review and the timely communication of issues related to conference agendas.
• The quality of presentations.
• Venue Paper notifications sessions were well organised and insightful
• Your help and guidance during the submission process and above all your understanding and humanity towards third world students with financial problems. Thank you very much.

What are the things that you disliked the most? (#39)

• 1) There were too many parallel sessions which forced me to miss some of the talks I really wanted to hear. 2) Chairs of sessions should be fluent in English
• conference kit was horrible. Was expecting a better kit with the amount of registration fee asked
• Lack of lunch and coffee break options.
• late release of programme.
• Low quality bento lunch. Maybe more money from the coffee/tea break should have been used for a higher quality lunch. Or get large IT corporation to donate lunches or coffee break snacks and put name of corporation on the program, e.g., "Microsoft Bento Lunch", "Google Ice Cream Coffee Break", ... Registration fee was very expensive.
• non-presence of multiple authors
• None
• Nothing
• online and video presentations of the selected papers
• paper notification and banquet
• Presentation needs to be more organised interms of similar paper
• Session announcement and program
• The fact that the program is too dense for 3 days only and too many parallel sessions.
• The language barrier was difficult some times
• The program schedule layout and formatting of the printed version. Is a bit hard to locate information.
• The release of the entire conference program was late.
• Three days was bit hectic. Need at least one more days.
• Videos of presentations.
• We could not attend the lunch plenary because the venue was too small (7A, 1st day).
• When you organise an "international event", it is rather natural to think ahead of the following: - The international language (in an international conference) is English, it is very disappointing that half of the organising staff did not speak it, - People with "no dietary restrictions" exist, and they are maybe a majority; it is ridiculous to have everyone eat "no pork" just because some people do not eat it, - Some people smoke (around 1/5 of the EU population do). It is appalling, and even offensive that a smoker conference attendee does not receive any indication on where they can smoke (not even an instruction on where they can go, just "no smoking"), - Lunch was ridiculous, small boxes and not even a place to eat; completely contradictory with the amount of money needed for registration and the networking spirit of an international conference, - Asking for identification to get a name tag may also be considered offensive (I personally have never seen such a thing before), so is asking people to leave while they are still eating/chatting at the banquet, - Finally, filling a form to get internet access is more of a joke than anything else.
• Wifi

Overall, how satisfied were you with the event? (#40)

Considering your complete experience at the conference, how likely are you to recommend our future conferences to your friends or colleagues? (#41)

Please state any other comments/suggestions that would help us make future conferences better. (#42)

• Everything was organised and location was perfect.
• I'm so grateful to the organizers. I have three comments. First, the registration price for SRS student authors should be clarified. The organizers instructed that SRS student authors can register at non-author student prices. However, this is not stated on the conference website, and there is no explicit choice in the registration process. It is quite confusing for authors, though offering a low price to students is very nice. Second, the schedule was tight. For WS, FA, and SRS, the period from the submission deadline to the notification is very short. Third, if it's possible, providing paper PDFs to the session chairs in advance helps them to prepare better discussions.
• Improve the program schedule layout and formatting.
• It would be better to provide some accommodation facility in the future conferences or subsidized accommodation.
• It would be nice also to set up a campaign for recruiting new reviewers for COMPSAC.
• More diversified forms
• Noisy children of participants. Perhaps an age limit of 12 years or older for the banquet would have been appropriate. Schedule was too packed. IEEE Conferences in Tokyo give participants the opportunity to go on excursions as a group. Appoint a "Banquet Chair", who is responsible for setting up banquet, welcome party, finding donations for snacks & lunches.
• Please improve the conference kit if possible and the banquet organised.
• Please provide an online session for students who do not have the means to travel to Canada.
• Please provide halal options everyday.
• Promote the conference more and strengthen cooperation with professors from other colleges, which will help expand the scale of the conference.
• reduce the Conference registration fee
• thanks
• The session program should be easy to understand. It would also be better to select several Best Paper nominees and announce them before the conference begins.
• Too many parallel sessions. The program lasted only 3 days. It should be 4 or 5-days Workshops should be assigned on a dedicated day. The quality of the reviews should be improved.
• Will it still take some time for presented papers to be published in IEEE Explore? For the ACM conference, it will be published as soon as the conference is held.