Towards an effective approach to publishing

Hints and tips to:get your stuff published

Outline

Picking a title

DOs and DON'Ts

Experiments

Select a venue

Wait for reviews

Get the reviews

Profit!?

Pick a title, the easy way

83% of papers use this template[*]

[Funky name:]Towards A/An A/An

newnovelefficientfasteffectiveetc.

methodapproachalgorithmsystemprotocoletc.

for/to (problem stated decades ago)

* 95% of statistics are made up on the spot [**]

DOs and DON'Ts

Do not write: there are 3,000 related papers, there is no way I am going to read them all!

Do write: the literature on this topic is vast, we outline below some key previous works

Do not write: we had to remove 2 pages from the conference submission, now we added them back for the journal version

Do write: portions of this work were previously presented in summary form

Do not write: if you remove your glasses and step back you may see this is not totally random

Do write: the data suggests a certain correlation to be studied in future work

DOs and DON'Ts (2)

Do not write: of course we assume an infinite budget, P=NP, the flat-earth conjecture, etc.

Do write: we omit the details for lack of space

Do not write: we tried lots of stuff and were getting desperate, the only thing that kind of worked was this

Do write: we summarize only the main results

Do not write: we started reviewing the literature two days before the deadline

Do write: in a very recent work [x] did something similar, we will compare against it in future work

Experiments

The secret is to pick the right baseline

Ours!

Algorithm written by 4 monkeys typing at random

Selecting a venue

It is not always easy ...

Option A:First international multi-workshop on medium-scale systems (Hawaii)

Option B:The 34th ACM STHG (Scranton, PA)

Wait for reviews

Have a back-up plan!

ACM STHGrejections

Journal ofProsimianReasoningspecial issuedeadline

Wait for reviews

Keep your expectations low

Many reviewers will actually read your paper

That's pretty much it

Get the reviews

Finally:
Keep your goals flexible

Thank you!

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