amitabh varshney::If not, i would oppose such a constraint, since it effectively disadvantages others namely, grad students whose supervisor unfortunately is on the pc to submit to a conference of their liking amitabh varshney

amitabh varshney::If not, i would oppose such a constraint, since it effectively disadvantages others namely, grad students whose supervisor unfortunately is on the pc to submit to a conference of their liking.
I think this is not fair.
I may be wrong, but i believe that lics has disallowed submissions by pc members for a while.
Personally, i see no big problem with allowing pc members to submit if it is handled the right way.
But it is interesting that different areas of cs seem to have come up with different answers to this question, i guess mainly due to different circumstances.
Large db conferences do get more submissions than stoc or focs, but this does not alone explain the committee sizes!
One can discuss if larger committees result in better or worse decisions not clear to me.
Purely studentauthored papers are more common in theory, while in db it is sort of customary to have the advisor on every paper.
So if you run things as in theory, disallowing submissions by pc members is not a big limitation on either committee members or their students.
Latin and wads allow pc submissions.
The idea has been floated in passing, usually in discussions about heavy committee loads.
It was quickly shouted down.
No submissions from pc members means no submissions where even one coauthor is a pc member.
In that sense, a pc member is really like any other author and only receives the outcome, after the final decisions are made.
Thus, i see no real reason for disallowing submission by pc members, given the current technology.
This reminds me of the quip that there is nothing more conservative than the academic practices of otherwise generally progressive professors.
This is the only group of people i know who can readily posit extending human rights to whales and chimps, but consider parallel tracks and blind submissions too risky an experiment to be tried.