CS Research

• What is reproducible research and why is this important?
• What is peer review and why is this important?
• What is publication and why is this important?
• ACM : The Association for Computing Machinery
  • The "CS club" for professionals.
  • Supports the CS community.
  • Publications
    • Communications of the ACM
    • Other journals.
    • On line digital library
  • SIG: Special Interest Group
    • SIGGRAPH - Special Interest Group for GRAPHics
    • Most have journals
    • Most have conferences
    • Most have workshops.
  • Courses.
  • CCSC
    • Computing Sciences in Colleges.
    • Has a number of small, student oriented conferences.
    • Publishes a journal of conference proceedings. (Look at east 2024)
• IEEE: Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • Societies, not SIGs
    • Mostly the computer society.
    • But there are others as well.
  • You have access to many IEEE journals as well.
• Where do we publish?
  • Conferences and conference proceedings.
    • Journals have a multi-year turn around.
      • IE it can be several years between when an article is submitted and when it is published.
    • We are in a fast paced discipline and don't have time for this.
    • Viewpoint: Time For Computer Science to Grow Up
      • Because we are a "new" discipline, we publish in conferences.
      • Major conferences are highly selective.
      • Review boards are dominated by research faculty from big universities, which skews the selection process.
      • Many important journal articles were rejected by cs conferences.
  • Look a Supercomputing's Acceptance Rates (Look at the front matter, Message from the program co-chairs, paragraph 2)
  • Use google scholar to see if we can find anyone citing this article.
  • Look at the paper Conferences versus journals in computer science
    • Notice the form of the paper.
      1. Abstract
      2. Introduction
      3. Past Work
      4. Data, Method, and Measures
      5. Results
      6. Discussion
      7. Conclusions
      8. Bib
    • Look at the publication rates in table 1.
      • Based on a 2010 study that classified conferences and journals based on citations.
      • CS Journals composed 4% of all journals in the study
      • CS Conferences composed 76% of all of the conferences studied.
      • With twice as many conferences listed than journals.
    • Is there a difference in the citation rate for papers published in conference proceedings or in journals?
      • Table 4 and 5 are interesting.
      • They appear to be the same en masse.
      • Elite conference edge out elite journals.