Research Papers

Scientific Publications

1. Journals and Transactions --> highest level. Normally when project finish or mostly finish

2. Conference Proceedings --> intermediate level. Normally when project is still in progress

3. Technical Reports --> When author has publish several related paper, collect the papers and generate technical report

4. Magazines and Newsletters --> When author become famous in one field, publishers invite him to write.

5. Books --> About five to ten years, author gather the paper in one field and generate the book

 

Research Paper

1. concerns a particular research question  --> Research Question

2. conducts a critical discussion on the available methodologies for answering the research question --> Literature review

3. proposes a different methodology, and --> Proposal

4. shows numerical or experiemental results for supporting the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed methodology --> Result

 

Research Question + Literature review + Proposal + Result + Conclusion

 

Comparison between Journals

Impact Factor (IF) is a measure reflecting the average number of citations of recent articles published in the journal.

Example: http://scholar.google.co.nz/citations (Input the author name to check the related information)

 

Conference Papers

1. reviewed quickly

2. reviews examined by program committee

3. Decision is binary

 

Journal Papers

1. reviewed carefully

2. Associate editor examined reviews and makes discoing

3. Decision may be acceptance, minor revision, major revision, resubmit or rejection

 

Research Papers Structure

1. Title

2. Abstract

3. Introduction

4. Preliminaries

5. Main Results

6. Experimental Results

7. Conclusion

8. Bibliography

 

Title

1. Short

2. Descriptive

3. Interesting

 

Abstract

1. short (200 words limit)

2. states the contribution and significance

Hints

1. write it last

2. ask yourself "would I want to read a paper with this abstract?"

3. read abstract of other papers and ask yourself if they are effective

 

Introduction

1. briefly motivates the problem that the paper presents

2. explains the background of the problem (related work)

    A. a short introduction to the research area.

    B. a short literature review (one or two paragraphs)

        Hints

        a. try to organize and categorize the related work

        b. avoid judging the related work

        c. use effective and useful citations

    C. the outstanding problems

3. states the paper problem clearly

4. explains the importance of the problem

5. states the intention of the paper clearly

6. explains the  importance of the paper clearly

 

Preliminaries

Reason: the introduction may describe your problem too informally for later use.

A formal description may require more details:

1. Assumptions: State them explicitly

2. Notation: Choose it judiciously

 

Main Result

Explaining main results clearly

1. Think about organization in advance

2. use subsections to reflect your organization

3. motivate first and give examples to support the precise technical content.

4. provide the reader with the intuitive ideas. to help make sense of complicated machinery

5. avoid the precise but dry model of lemma, theorem, proof, corollary.

Hints

1. Explain the objectives of the experiments

2. Explain the setup carefully

3. What assumptions are you making? Be explicit

4. Make sure that your graphs are clear, axes documented

5. Good graphs are wonderful, but accompanying higher-level text is important too.

6. Interpret findings. What does one learn from all of this data?

 

Conclusion

1. remind the reader of the major contributions of the paper.

2. describes some interesting related problems for future work.

 

Bibliography

1. Make sure that your literature search is thorough.

2. Cite all closely related papers, cite only representative major papers in more distant related work

3. Use reference management software

4. Spell check very carefully.

 

Submit your papers

1. Conference: use "call for papers" as keyword search in google

2. Journal: use "instructions for authors" as keyword search in google

check about the conditions

A. format

B. length limit

C. deadline

D. special requirements

 

Before start writing, ask yourself

1. Who is my audience?

2. What is the problem I have solved?

3. Is my work new and relevant?

4. What are my contributions?

5. What is the future work?

 

Start writing the paper, considering

1. a standard structure as discussed earlier

2. answers to the questions below title "Before start writing, ask yourself"

3. your findings in steps