Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Marie desJardins
University of Maryland Baltimore County
(mariedj@cs.umbc.edu)
2005 AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium
July 10, 2005
Thanks to Rob Holte for
permission to use some slides
People
Networking
Meet people! It helps to have an objective:
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Be Prepared
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Publishing
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Authorship
Who should be an author?
Anyone who contributed significantly to the conceptual development
or writing of the paper
Not necessarily people who provided feedback,
implemented code, or ran experiments
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Conference Reviewing
Program committees
Selection process
Senior vs. area chair vs. regular members
Paper assignments
Keyword-based
Self-selection
All for one and one for all
Decisions
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Reaching a consensus
Final decisions
Conditional accepts (rare)
Acceptance rates (~~~20% in good conferences/journals)
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Journal Reviewing
Executive editor Area editor Board members or
reviewers
Longer decision cycle
Typically higher quality, longer, and deeper reviews
Decision options:
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Accept as is
Accept with minor changes
Accept with major changes (subject to re-review)
Reject with encouragement to resubmit
Reject out of hand
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Where to Publish
Workshops vs. conferences vs. journals
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Purpose of a Review
Evaluate the papers scientific merit
Check the validity of the papers claims and evidence
Judge the papers relevance and significance
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Polite
Fair
Concise
Clear
Constructive
Specific
Well-documented
Represent the scientific community
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Ethical Issues
Multiple submissions
Journal versions of conference papers
Authors and author order
Listing papers in your CV
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Presentations
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Preparing slides
of
animation
is
cardinal
sin!
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