An academic conference or symposium is a conference for researchers to present and discuss their work.
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Overcoming nerves from anticipating conference questions
My field is atmospheric physics.
The irony is that I have been a school teacher for over a decade, but soon, I'll be giving a presentation of some of my findings at a conference. I think that the ...
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half good and some not good results in a research paper?
I have made a research about some CS topic. The initial idea seemed good, but when I implement the idea; this works in some cases and in some other it does not bring conclusive results.
The question ...
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How do journals and conferences verify if the results in paper are genuine
Most of the conferences and journals doesn't ask for code to be submitted along with the paper. How common is it to detect fake or incomplete results in such conference/journal review ? In my field of ...
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Is there any difference between journals and conferences which charge money vs those which don't?
Some journals and conferences charge money before/after paper acceptance, similarly there are some which don't (like Open Access Journals). Does money matter in judging such journals/conferences ...
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How to suggest reviewers for a Journal?
I recently tried submitting a paper to a Journal. The submission process mandatory required suggesting three reviewers. Is it a norm in Journal submissions ? If yes, how should one choose reviewers ...
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How to know if these congresses (i.e. organized by ISCA) are good?
One of my colleages has published a couple of papers in the CS congresses organized by:
http://www.isca-hq.org/
For what I saw that the papers that got accepted in their conferences, are indexed in ...
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mailing list for local conferences
Often I learn about conferences, even in my own country, when it is too late to submit papers. Is there a mailing list, or another way to get information about conferences in a specific location and ...
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Should I add references to conference presentations?
I am preparing a CS conference presentation and wondering how can I handle the references. I am thinking about three different possibilities:
Ignore them!
Just list them at the end of the ...
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question about submission dates
I want to submit a paper for an ACM conference and I see that there are two dates like this:
Full Papers
Abstracts due: May 10, 2013
Papers due: May 17, 2013
The issue is that I am still working in ...
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Going to conferences: all the research team members together or everyone alone?
I have been discussing with friends and colleagues about the strategy to use to decide, in a research group, who has to go to a conference and with who.
The issue is: if someone in the research group ...
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Why do PhD students volunteer at conferences?
Other than the possibility of waiving registration fees, What is the objective of graduate students volunteering at conferences?
For instance, I am considering volunteering at IJCAI these days and ...
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Final round of reviewing for a Program Committee
I've been recently involved in a Program Committee, and I was wondering what exactly was expected of the PC members from the PC Chair. Once all the reviews have been collected, are the reviewers ...
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What's the expected level of paper for top conferences in Computer Science
What's the expected level of paper to be submitted to top level conferences in theoretical computer science (FOCS/SODA/STOC)?
I think there should be four main concern:
Is it a novel results?
How ...
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Academic affiliation: which to choose?
I am actually working for two different universities in my country, and the problem is that they do not give too much support to academic research. I mean for paying the costs of tickets, travel ...
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Travel grant for undergraduate researcher for attending conference
I am an undergraduate student doing independent research. My research work is selected in a very reputed conference in US. I am from India. I cannot afford to attend the conference at all. How should ...
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My paper was accepted in Springer International Conference and National conference. What to do? [duplicate]
We had prepared the paper and applied for National Conference. After some days came to know about the International Conference and improved the paper and applied for it. After a month we got an accept ...
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What are the good indicators of fake conferences? [duplicate]
Here is the story:
After working on a project for a couple of months, I put the results in a scientific paper format in case I would submit it to a conference or yet this is a good practice for my ...
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What do I need to ensure my presentation will go smoothly?
From a technical stand point, what do I need to show up to a conference with (in general) to ensure that my presentation will go smoothly?
Two things I can think of:
Presentation remote
Equipment ...
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How did conferences “work” before the e-mail era?
Some friends and I were discussing a certain conference that has a "rebuttal" phase, in which the authors can see the reviews and reply to them. We realized that this rebuttal phase probably couldn't ...
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Publishing a conference version of a journal paper at the same time ? (copyright issues) [duplicate]
This may be a question repeated many times, but I want to know your opinion.
I submitted a journal paper for an algorithm (Computer Science). Fearing that the review process take too long, I decided ...
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How can I determine the quality of a conference?
I recently received an invitation to a conference and I'm trying to determine how reputable it is. Is there a good way to go about this?
One method I'm using is examining where the proceedings will ...
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Are contributions to conference proceedings considered to be “archival” publications?
While technical papers are generally considered to be "non-archival" and journal papers "archival", I couldn't find a clear statement about papers that appear in conference proceedings. Does it matter ...
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Conferences and journals for network science?
I'd like to learn about the state of the art in network science and which problems researchers are actively working on. In particular, I'm interested in the applications, but the theory is also ...
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How useful are professional society memberships?
En route to academia, are professional society memberships useful? So far, I feel like I have been paying ~$100/year for a few societies (with student discounts), just to receive copies of their ...
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How does the acceptance rate affect papers decisions?
Some conferences do maintain a percentage for the number of accepted papers to the total number of submissions.
Does this mean some good papers will be inevitably rejected just to maintain the ...
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How exactly does a conference abstract differ from an article abstract?
I am currently taking a brief course in Technical/Academic Writing. At one point, in passing, the lecturer (who's a researcher in linguistics himself) mentioned that one should not confuse a ...
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Submitting the same paper to more than one conference in economics [duplicate]
I am aware of the post relating to this topic here. However, it doesn't say anything for the paper relating to the economics. I would be glad if seasoned econ colleagues could clear out the confusion ...
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Cite paper in the same upcoming conference
I had two papers approved for a workshop in a IEEE conference and I'm going to send the camera-ready version soon.
Is it OK to have one paper cite the other? If it's OK, do I have to reference the ...
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Can the publication conference choice affect one's admission to a new academic job?
Sometimes, I have been noticing some postdoc open position announcements that, besides the common requisites for the admisssion (PhD, an excellent cv, programming skills, etc), were asking to the ...
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How to get a PC member's attention to comment on or review my submission?
I have submitted a thesis abstract to PhD consortium and my submission was accepted.
I just noticed that one of the program committee is well known professor on my thesis area. Actually, many of the ...
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Having a low tier publication as an undergraduate student?
Is a good thing for an undergraduate student to publish in a low-tier conference as first author ? Or should the student avoid from such places and only publish in atleast reputable places ? If it is ...
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Conference sponsored by a top conference?
How related two conferences are if B is sponsored by A? If A is a top conference, does this make B a worth-trusting conference also? For example, SIGCOMM is a top conference in computer networks & ...
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What to do with a paper with references but no citations?
I just received a paper for review that does not have a single citation (in the text) of its references.
I wonder if this is common in other areas non-CS related.
Since it is a conference, I don't ...
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“Looking for a postdoc” ad inside a conference talk?
I got my PhD one year ago; I am looking for a position (e.g., postdoc).
I am going to a fairly attended conference, and was pondering about how to make audience aware that I am on the market.
An ...
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Why do some reviewers mention their decision explicitly?
Recently, some of the reviews I received mentioned their decision at the end of the review (i.e. 'I recommend acceptance of the paper'), while others do not have such statements.
What is the point ...
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Why do some conference have an “abstract submission” before the “paper submission”?
I noticed that some conference have different deadline for paper submission: an "abstract" submission deadline, before the usual "paper" submission deadline.
For example, on the International ...
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Is checking the format of a paper an expected part of the reviewing process?
I have some papers to review and I am wondering whether I should do an in-depth inspection over the whole paper format? I see nothing major but there might be some tiny format errors here and there..
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Author title for ex-student in research paper
I have graduated from a Masters program recently. After graduating, my Masters thesis supervisor and myself decided to write a paper based on my dissertation. I have a question about the format in ...
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How do I remove myself from academic mailing lists?
When I was a grad student, I participated in a bunch of conferences, and sent papers to journals and the like.
But now I'm no longer in academia. I've been out for more than three years, and I still ...
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Business cards for graduate students
It's come up in our lab that we should probably have business cards for when we attend conferences, however, we've been given very little guidance for what is appropriate for a graduate student.
Some ...
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Should the slides in a presentation be self-explanatory or be as minimal as possible?
When you do a research presentation, what is usually the focus that you take.
Some professors tell me to make the slides as self explanatory as possible, and I quote:
Someone should be able to ...
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How to write abstract for conference when you have no results yet?
This situation is not uncommon; in my case, I have to submit abstract for conference in September by the end of January already. But the problem is I have no results yet. I'm pretty sure that in those ...
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Indirect expenses due to attending conferences
Going to conferences induces some costs on a researcher's personal budget. In all places I know, expenses directly related to travel and accommodation are usually covered (travel, hotels, food), but ...
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What will happen to my paper if the status of the accepted paper is “AAR” in a IEEE conference
I have been notified by IEEE organizing committee that my paper has been accepted by for their conference and requested to register. and the status of the paper is AAR . Please see below quotation. I ...
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Can I use abbreviations in the title of a research paper?
Is it a good practice to include an abbreviation in a title of a research paper.
for example : PC , IDE , RAM
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How to choose to which conference submit a scientific paper?
Nowadays, in almost every scientific field, there are hundreds of conferences. Many call for papers emails fill our mail boxes.
Freedom of choice is great, but, how to choose to which conference send ...
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Changing the Title of The Research Paper before the submission of Camera Ready Paper
My research paper has been accepted for the IEEE ICCSE conference. I am planning to change the title of the research paper before the submission of camera ready papers. This would be a slight ...
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Publishing Same Research Paper on a National Conference as well as International IEEE conference
I submitted my final year research paper for a national level conference as well as international level IEEE conference. I was notified that my research paper has been accepted for the national level ...
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What are the different roles between a programming committee member and reviewer?
Does someone know what are the different roles between a Program Committee (PC) member and Reviewer for conferences (e.g., in the field of machine learning)?
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reuse of text between publications (CS)
This probably depends on field, but in Computer Science it is common for people to publish similar material in workshops, then conferences, then journals. Each time it is acceptable to reuse some ...
