APMAA Annual
Conference Policy and Mission
APMAA is a
gmembers-firsth
organization. As everyone recognizes, our annual conferences are
the platform that brings our members together. All members are
on the list of possible heroes and heroines of our annual
conferences.
It
is a duty for all conference organizers to develop conference
programs and schedules that are
gof
the members,h
gby
the members,h
and gfor
the members.h
Parallel sessions should be the center in all APMAA conferences
and Doctoral Colloquiums. This
is our supreme policy and what the Board expects of all
conference organizers.
An
important
mission of
APMAA, as an
international academic association located in Asia, is to
provide regional researchers an
easy-to-access
platform
for communicating their research results with overseas
colleagues.
Our reviewers are not just scrutinizers, as in the case of
established conferences such as those organized by the AAA, but
rather, we are also facilitators.
Developing
each otherfs competence in research is APMAAfs core mission.
Background thought
for adding a Quality Control function to APMAA this year
There exist broad
variations in quality (relating to content, writings, etc.)
among papers submitted to APMAA parallel sessions. Some are very
good, i.e., may be at the level that a good scholarly journal
will accept. On the other hand, the quality and writing style of
some papers is far from good.
APMAA must
guarantee that the research results reported at their annual
conferences are honest, accurate and can be relied upon (quality
control). However, conference organizing teams and paper review
teams (local scientific committee) are different every year in
their experiences, skills, and in their level of commitment to
paper reviews. This is the reason that we founded the
gScientific
Committee at Headquartershin
2018.
Reorganizing the
Scientific Committee at Headquarters to the Quality Control
Committee.
The Scientific
Committee at Headquarters aimed to support local conference
organizing teams and paper review teams to ensure the integrity
and the reliability of the manuscripts in the proceedings
(quality control). The board changes this committee to the
gQuality
Control Committeeh
from 2020. The Quality Control Committee conducts
gprior
and post audits on an annual conference.h
It has a bigger role.
The APMAA Board
requests all conference organizers to use the
Model Program and
Schedule
developed on Dec.
11, 2019 (note
1)
as a base frame.
Like the frameworks
used in APMAA 2018 and 2019, it was developed to carry out the
conference policy and mission described at the outset. APMAA
annual conferences need to keep consistency and uniformity over
years and across organizers.
This is another role
performed by the model frame and also the function of Quality
Control Committee.
The audit by the
Quality Control Committee mainly examines (1) an appropriateness
of conference program and schedule in light to the APMAA policy
and mission and (2) an appropriateness of local conference
organizing team structure and function. Organizing teams of all
approved conferences are required to submit their conference
plans and other information to the committee when requested. The
Quality Control Committee reports the Board Chair regularly by
editing a short audit report. In addition, the committee
supports to prepare the
gNext
Conference Organizers Meeting.h
Conference
organizing team Chairs should report preparation progress to the
Board Chair regularly and frequently. Official releases and
publications using the APMAA name should obtain prior approval
from the Board Chair. This scheme has helped to create and
maintain trust towards APMAA from the academic society and was a
source of our growth in the past decade.
2020 Quality
Control Committee
Head:
Representative director
Co-heads:
President and vice presidents
Members:
Chairs and key members of conference organizing teams (APMAA
2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023)
(note
1)
http://s-ueno.sakura.ne.jp/APMAA_asia/To_APMAA_Conference_Organizers_.htm
http://s-ueno.sakura.ne.jp/APMAA_2018_Tokyo/Conference%20Program_.htm
http://s-ueno.sakura.ne.jp/APMAA_asia/2019_Doha_conference.htm
Parallel sessions (15
min. presentation, 10 min. discussion, 5 min. Q&A)
Doctoral Colloquium (20 min. presentation, 15 min. discussion, 5
min. Q&A) |