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On the Road to the Naissance of a Good Technical Papers (in CS & EEE),Shujun Li Institute of Image Processing, Xian Jiaotong University, China March, 2002,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,2,0. Questions in Naissance of a Technical Paper,Select one research area Read related textbooks and review papers How to Find Them and Get Fulltexts? Focus interests on some specific topics Re-read review papers and search more review and original papers to read How to Find Them and Get Fulltexts? How to Estimate the Significance of the found Papers? Develop your own ideas, theoretically prove them (if necessary) and test them by enough experiments Write manuscripts with some word processor How to Write Beautiful Compuscripts?,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,3,Questions in Naissance of a Technical Paper,Submit manuscripts to international conferences or journals How to Seek Instructions for Authors and Call-for-Papers? How to Avoid Ethical Problems? Papers are accepted or rejected How to Understand Review Procedure and Returned Results? (Maybe) Re-submit rejected (or accepted?) papers for further publications How to Avoid Ethical Problems? Papers are published How to Estimate the Significance of Your Published Papers? Continue to research, write sequent papers and submit them for publication How to Avoid Ethical Problems? (How to Re-Use Your Own Words?),March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,4, Content with “How to”,How to Know Technical Papers? How to Get Fulltext of Technical Papers? How to Seek Instructions for Authors of Journals and Call-for-Paper Notices? How to Estimate Journals & Technical Papers? How to Write Well-Written and Well-Typesetted Compuscripts in English/Chinese? How to Avoid Ethical Problems in Research? How to Understand Review Procedure and Returned Results?,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,5,1. How to Know Technical Papers?,Well-known indexing products, such as EI Engineering Index, SCIE Science Citation Index (SCI) Expanded, etc. The search engines provided with the fulltext databases by publishers, such as the one contained in IEL IEEE/IEE Electronic Library and Elsevier ScienceDirect, etc. The search engines freely provided by some research institutes and researchers, such as NEC ResearchIndex, etc.,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,6,How to Know Technical Papers?,The online bibliography databases for specific research areas, such as The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies, CompuScience WWW-Database and DBLP Computer Science Bibliography. Citation information: a) references list of obtained papers; b) citation information of some indexing products, such as SCIE and NEC ResearchIndex.,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,7, What I suggest and remind,Search EI and SCIE using related keywords, please note EI can merge similar keywords, such as “chaos” and “chaotic”, but SCIE cannot. Select limited important papers, check their citation trees in SCIE to find more papers. Search IEL with related keywords to find more newly published IEEE conference papers. Search NEC ResearchIndex to see the significance of EI-indexed conference papers.,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,8, What I suggest and remind,To make your research more effective, it is strongly recommended that you go to know enough background information about well-known indexing products, creditable research organizations and technical publishers, high-quality journals/international conferences. We briefly introduce some knowledge about indexing products here, and about publishers and organizations here.,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,9,2. How to Get Fulltexts of Technical Papers?,Find the papers in the electronic fulltexts databases available in xjtu, which include IEL, Elsevier ScienceDirect, Kluwer Online, NEC ResearchIndex, IEICE Trans. Series. Rush into lib.xjtu and seek them. Rush into other libraries in Xian, such as the ones of 西电 and 西工大, and seek them. Rush into 情报咨询室 of lib.xjtu and request for 文献传递, but the fee is not cheap and you have to wait for several weeks. ,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,10,How to Get Fulltexts of Technical Papers?,Rush into some libraries in other cities, such as National Library of China or Libarary of Tsing Hua Univ. Let others abroad (HK, Singapore, USA or UK, etc.) to help you: a) seek them in electronic fulltexts databases available in their schools; b) rush into their libraries. To know whether or not your papers are hold in those libraries, visit their home pages for confirmation.,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,11, What I suggest and remind,Generally, many researchers will place their electronic versions of their published papers on their personal home page. We can use google to find them. Try to find the contact information of the authors, then directly contact them to request electronic or printed papers. I have got many papers through the above two perfect ways.,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,12, What I suggest and remind,In addition, there still exist many online resources containing electronic papers, books and course lectures etc. We can discover those resources by search related keywords in google. I have found some valuable ones in cryptology: Counterpane Labs Crypto Bibliography, Crypto-Log, Cryptology pointers, The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies, Unified Computer Science TR(Technical Reports) Index, Handbook of Applied Cryptography (Fulltext of a good book).,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,13, Some useful information,Most universities in HK and NUS have bought the following online databases (part or full): Academic Press, Elsevier ScienceDirect, The ACM Digital Library, Springer LINK, Kluwer Online, Wiley InterScience, World Scientific WorldSciNet, OSA Optics InfoBase, APS Journals, AIP OJPS, OUP Journals, CUP Journals, SIAM Journals, AMS Journals, The Royal Society Journals, Emerald Journals, JSTOR, ingenta, CatchWorld. (For introduction of the above fulltext databases, click here),March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,14, Some useful information,Tisnghua Univ. has bought the following online databases (not bought by xjtu): JSTOR, Academic Press, OUP Journals, CUP Journals, APS Journals, Wiley InterScience, World Scientific WorldSciNet, Springer LINK “Lecture Notes xxx” Series The library of Tsinghua Univ. and 兵器工业总公司21研究所(in Beijing) hold almost all volumes of Proceedings of SPIE. The libraries of 西电 and 西工大 have some paper-version journals that cannot found in lib.xjtu, such as J. Cryptology, Designs, Codes and Cryptography, Int. J. Bifurcation & Chaos, Signal Processing: Image Communication. ,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,15, Some Creditable Research Organizations,IEEE (USA) & IEE (UK) IEEE Societies and Councils: Computer , Signal Processing, Communications, Information Technology, Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Circuits and Systems, Consumer Electronics, Vehicular Technology, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Neural Networks, Systems, Man, and Cybernetics ACM The Association for Computing Machinery (USA) ,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,16, Some Creditable Research Organizations,IFIP International Federation of Information Processing (Austria) IEICE (Japan) The Institute of Electronics, Information & Communication Engineers SPIE The International Society for Optical Engineering IACR International Association for Cryptologic Research IASTED The International Association of Science and Technology for Development,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,17, Some Creditable Research Organizations,ISOC Internet Society APS American Physics Society(US) AIP American Institute of Physics (US) IoP Institute of Physics (UK) SIAM Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (US) AMS American Mathematics Society The Royal Society (UK) ,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,18, Some Creditable Technical Publishers,IEEE (US) & IEE (UK): IEL Elsevier Science (The Netherlands): EI Inc.s mother company ScienceDirect, mirror KAP Kluwer Academic Publishers (The Netherlands): Kulwer Online, mirror ACM The Association for Computing Machinery (US): The ACM Digital Library Springer (Germany): Springer LINK AP Academic Press: IDEAL Library John, Wiley & Sons Inc.: Wiley InterScience,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,19, Some Creditable Technical Publishers,World Scientific: WorldSciNet AIP American Institute of Physics: AIP OJPS SPIE : Journals contained in AIP OJPS APS American Physics Society: Online journals. IoP Institute of Physics (UK) OSA Optical Society of American: Optical InfoBase Oxford University Press (UK): OUP Online Journals,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,20, Some Creditable Technical Publishers,SIAM Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (US): Online Journals AMS American Mathematics Society: AMS Journals Program The Royal Society (UK): Online Publications Blackwell Publishers (UK): online journals contained in ingenta Cambridge University Press (UK): CJO Cambridge Journals Online Emerald (UK): Online Journals Fulltext,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,21, Some Online Databases for Technical Journals,JSTOR Journals STORage: a scholarly journal archive (with PDF-format papers) ingenta: a center of online technical journals SwetsnetNavigator (The Netherlands): another center of online technical journals CatchWorld: Similar to the above two M/E/O/S: similar to the above two ARL DSEJ ARL (Association of Research Libraries, US) Directory of Scholarly Electronic Journals and Academic Discussion Lists arX e-Print archive: Physics / Mathematics / Nonlinear / Computer Science.,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,22,3. How to Seek Instructions for Authors of Journals?,Generally speaking, one “good” journal must have its home page, where you can find anything what you want about this journal, including instructions for authors. In most cases, the home page of a journal is incorporated in the web site of the publisher. In many cases, the home page of a journal is established by the sponsor or the edit-in-chief.,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,23, What I suggest and remind,Many journals publish special issues. Generally, special issues have deadlines and the call-for-papers can also be found in the home pages of the journals or the sponsors. Essentially, each volume of some journals is published as a “special issue”, or each volume contains papers of “special focus”. Two examples are IEEE ISAC IEEE J. Selected Areas in Communications, Proceedings of IEEE, and AIP Chaos.,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,24, What I suggest and remind,Compared with Chinese journals, English Journals seem to be much more difficult for most Chinese researchers. But I do not think so. Consider the following facts: a) Nothing is impossible, if you really want to do it; b) If your paper is really good, it should be accepted by some reviewers even after some times rejections so please submit and submit until you succeed ; c) Once you really enter a research area, you will find it is not so difficult. d) The review periods of many English journals are not so long; e) Even if your paper is rejected, the reviewing results may be very valuable.,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,25,3. How to Seek Call-for-Paper of International Conferences?,Generally speaking, the notice of call-for-paper of a international conference can be found in the web site of the sponsor. For example, all information about IEEE sponsored and co-sponsored conferences can be found at IEEE site. Many international conference series have its own permanent home pages, such as IEEE Int. Conf. on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop, International Conference on Software Engineering, etc.,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,26,How to Seek Call-for-Paper of International Conferences?,There are many online search engines and web pages providing rich information about forthcoming international conferences and workshops. Generally, research organizations, institutes, researchers, related companies (such as RSA Security, Inc. in cryptology) all may run such online services. The most famous and important one in CS & EEE is IEEE conference database. We will give a brief list about online conference services later (to the best of my knowledge).,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,27,How to Seek Call-for-Paper of International Conferences?,The publishers of forthcoming proceedings may also provide information about the conferences in their web sites. Generally, many technical journals will publish call-for-papers about conferences related with the journals. Using google to find more call-for-papers of forthcoming conferences, and more useful online services about your research, especially the ones maintained by individual researchers.,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,28, Questions and Answers My Opinions,What is the difference between the following words: conference, symposium and workshop? Conceptually, symposium conference workshop. Many workshops will become conferences or symposiums after several successes; some conference will organize workshops (also called satellite conferences, such as ICM 2002 International Congress of Mathematics 2002, Beijing) for some specially selected topics. (to be continued),March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,29, Questions and Answers My Opinions,What is the difference between the following words: conference, symposium and workshop? (continued) There are still some other equivalent terms of conference: congress, meeting (SPIEs Annual Meeting), convention (Int. Convention on Multimedia and Hypermedia Systems), colloquium (Int. Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming). When you use keywords to search “conferences” in google, please note the use of different words “conferences”.,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,30, Questions and Answers My Opinions,International conferences J. Cryptology). (to be continued),March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,31, Questions and Answers My Opinions,International conferences journals? (continued) d) Many researchers only publish their papers on top “conferences” and top journals, such as many “good” researchers in Computer Science (沈向洋微软); d) Many researchers only read “new” conferences proceedings for recent progress in their areas and “old” journals for long-term research. e) Statistics of NEC ResearchIndex shows that top conferences play more positive roles in latest research even than top journals.,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,32, Questions and Answers My Opinions,How to judge the significance of an international conferences? The following facts are conceptually right: a) “conferences” with lower acceptance are better, such as SIGRAPHICCV; b) “conferences” (not workshop!) that accept less papers are generally better, such as ICCVCVPRICIP; c) peer-to-peer review committee review abstract review, such as LNCSIEEESPIE (not every!); (to be continued),March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,33, Questions and Answers My Opinions,How to judge the significance of an international conferences? (continued) d) If a conference is ranked by NEC ResearchIndex, the higher the score is, the more significant the conference MAY be; e) de facto viewpoint about a conference, please specially note different criteria exist in different research areas; for example, ICIP is a “good” conference for image/video coding but just a general one for pattern recognition and computer vision (from 微软).,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,34, Some Online Conference Services,IEEE Conference Database Conference Services of IEEE Societies and Councils: the most important and useful one is Computer Society Conference Wire. ACM Conference Calendar IFIP Calendar of Events SPIE Conferences Information IACR Calendar: The 1st List in Cryptology IEEE Cipher Calendar of Security and Privacy,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,35, Some Online Conference Services,Calendar from UCL Crypto Group (Belgium) IASTED Conferences IMA Conferences: IMA Institute of Mathematics LNAI Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, sub-series of LNCS.,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,36,4. How to Estimate the Significance of Journals?,The significance of a technical journal can be estimated based on the following facts: a) Which indexing products index it, SCI, SCIE or EI? b) If it is reported by JCR, how about its IF Impact FactorTM, Immediacy IndexTM, its rank and stability? c) If it is contained in PF Prestige Factor, how about its Prestige FactorTM (or Review FactorTM), Impact-Like Factor, Publishing IndexTM, rank and stability? d) Its acceptance ratio; e) The total number of published papers per year; (to be continued),March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,37,How to Estimate the Significance of Journals?,(continued) f) If it is contained in NEC ResearchIndex, how about its score and rank? g) The sponsor(s) and founder(s). Example: JNSNS Int. J. Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation founded by Ji-Huan He (何吉欢) at Shanghai Univ., China in 1999; h) de facto significance of this journal, such as J. Cryptology is only indexed by SCIE but it SHOULD be indexed by SCI in my opinion; i) Non-uniformity phenomena, i.e., different papers have different significances in a journal.,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,38, Some useful information ISIs JCR,As the top one (and the only one in the past 30 years) product about the estimation of technical journals (and a small number of conference proceedings and book series, such as LNCS / LNCIS / LNM / STMP / TAP, etc.), JCR Journal Citation Reports provided by ISI Inc. yearly has gained its good reputation. JCR contains many values, in which the most important one about the estimation of a journal is IF Impact Factor. Generally, larger IF means more significance.,March, 2002,Shujun Li, IPC-xjtu,39, Some useful information ISIs JCR,IF=C/A, where A=the number of papers published in the last two years, C=the cited times of the above papers in the current year. Another usefu