Other approaches to run conferences, opinions, etc.
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Collection of links
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Evaluations – Industrial Challenge
An actual industrial problem, described in way academics can understand, made public, can help steer research towards reality. Research aiming to be relevant to reality needs proper evaluations, ideally of actual industrial problems. In my experience, this is often hindered by ECRTS addressed the issues by providing “Industrial Challenges“, use cases from reality, in which…
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Literature Databases
I found many of the commercial databases surprisingly flawed. Better to use dblp computer science bibliography. I remember doing a thorough analysis of papers published at ECRTS for the 25th anniversary edition, looking for most active authors, collaborations and their development etc over time. To my surprise the commercial ones had errors, e.g. IEEE Xplore…
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Top universities are abandoning ranking systems
“Institutes are questioning the value and methods used by ranking companies, which can focus more on research output than other parameters.” An interesting article on ranking systems – and why we should not engage: Sorbonne University, Columbia University, Utrecht University, Yale and Harvard, and several Indian institutes have opted out of major ranking systems such…
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Berlin Universities Publishing
Some Berlin universities teamed up to provide knowledge for free to authors and readers by setting up a (genuine) open access publisher, not for profit, without fees. Berlin Universities Publishing (BerlinUP) “deliberately sets itself apart from profit-oriented, commercial publishers and strives for a publication model that is free of charge for publishers and readers in…
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Suggestions for better Research Assessment: San Francisco Declaration
An substantial number of institutions and individuals have signed to support the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which is critical of the use of journal impact factors in assessing research. I find the reasoning behind and suggestions for how (not) to do assessments quite interesting, see examples quotes below. A tool is provided, Reformscape,…
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RTNS – Multi-submission model
RTNS 24, The 32nd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems, has three deadlines over the year, with accept and reject decisions, as usual, but also “Major Revision: the paper may be re-submitted in the second or third round and will be re-evaluated by the same reviewers.”I find this a nice way to support those…
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EMSOFT – International Conference on Embedded Software
Computer Science conferences appear to have a different understanding of conferences and journals from e.g., physics, where conferences are for quick results and journal for established work. CS appears to focus on conferences, which have high quality demands etc, journals mostly being an archival after thought.Prestige and perceived quality of journals, however, are higher than…
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ERTS – European Congress on Real-time Embedded Systems
ERTS24 has a submission model where authors first submit a 4-page abstract. If accepted, a full version of the paper is prepared with supervision from a dedicated TPC member.I see a number of advantages, in particular with involved efforts: Authors and conference, and community, win. The total effort for the PC goes up with shepherding,…
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Edward Lee – “The Toxic Culture of Rejection in Computer Science”
Edward Lee posted on the Sigbed Blog “The Toxic Culture of Rejection in Computer Science” on negativity in CS conference culture, with some interesting observations, some resonating with issues addressed in this blog: “We have come to value as a quality metric for conferences a low acceptance rate. This feeds a culture of shooting each…