Publishing in Top Venues

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Publishing in Top Venues

• Xuemin Lin
• School of Computer Science
• University of New South Wales
• Australia

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Database Group_at_UNSW (2003-)
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• 4 faculty members
• Prof Xuemin Lin
• Dr. John Shepherd
• Dr. Wei Wang
• Dr. Raymond Wong
• 4 research fellows (research assistant Prof)
• Dr. Lijun Chang --- Graph
• Dr. Muhammad Aamir Cheema (ARC DECRA) --- Spatial
  Temporal
• Dr. Wenjie Zhang (ARC DECRA) --- Uncertain
• Dr. Ying Zhang (ARC APD) --- Stream
• 20PhD students.
• Research Interests core topics in DB, DM, IR,
  MM.

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Enjoyable?

• Make an interesting story and sell it
• Tough game butlet us love this game!

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Outline

• Topic selection (?????)
• Techniques Developing (?????)
• Paper writing (?????)
• Experiment (??????)

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Topic Selection (new vs existing topics)

• New topics
• New areas
• tough to promote but go for it
• Very sound applications (e.g. association rules,
  data cube, etc)
• New problem formalization
• tough to promote
• avoid delta variations
• Period-dependent (NP-completeness, probabilistic
  queries, etc)
• Semantics validation

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Topic Selection (new vs existing topics)

• Existing problems
• Need a big story
• Complexity breakthroughs!
• Critical observations!

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Developing Techniques

• Single ideas vs multiple ideas?
• My personal choice single idea and framework
• Multiple ideas completeness of your selection
• How many enough? Interesting enough?
• Nothing to do with quantity
• Interesting insights! (minimum 3 interesting
  spots?)
• No space left for reviewers to imagine an
  immediate improvements.

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Writing-up

• Easy for busy people to read.
• Make the early parts most interesting.
• Clearly structured.
• No holes!
• Make a good story in the introduction part
• 40 contribution to your success
• Your short bio/CV

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Experiments

• Final chance to market your technical
  developments
• Avoid to have fun and mess-up things around!
• Results presented aim to verify your insights.