How to manage bidding for Senior Area Chairs

If your venue uses Area Chairs and Senior Area Chairs, your Workflow Timeline will include a bidding step for Senior Area Chairs: Senior Area Chairs Bid. By default, Senior Area Chairs are assigned to Area Chairs rather than to submissions, so they bid on the members of your Area Chairs group. To assign them to submissions instead, contact OpenReview Support; this can't be changed from the Workflow Timeline. Their bids can then be used when you compute the Senior Area Chair assignment.

By default, Senior Area Chair bidding opens 3.5 days after the submission deadline (the abstract deadline, if your venue also has a full submission deadline) and is due 7 days after it, and each Senior Area Chair is asked to complete 50 bids. To change these settings:

1. Open your Workflow Timeline and expand the Senior Area Chairs Bid step.

2. Click Edit next to Dates and set the Activation Date (when bidding opens), the Due Date and the Expiration Date (after which Senior Area Chairs can no longer bid). Click Submit.

3. Click Edit next to Settings to change the Bid Count (the number of bids each Senior Area Chair is expected to complete) and the Labels Senior Area Chairs can choose from. The default labels are Very High, High, Neutral, Low and Very Low. Click Submit.

The Senior Area Chairs Bid step, as Program Chairs see it.

Once bidding is open, Senior Area Chairs bid in the Senior Area Chair Bidding Console, at https://openreview.net/invitation?id=<venue_id>/Senior_Area_Chairs/-/Bid.

Senior Area Chairs can only bid on users who are members of the Area Chairs group, so recruit your Area Chairs before bidding opens.

When you create a Senior Area Chair assignment configuration, the Senior Area Chair bids are included in its scores specification by default, with Very High counting as 1, High as 0.5, Neutral as 0, Low as -0.5 and Very Low as -1.

If you do not want to include bidding for Senior Area Chairs in your venue, click Disable on the Senior Area Chairs Bid step.