by jordicabot | Nov 13, 2014 | publishing, Research Rants
The other day we tried to submit a journal paper summarizing the PhD work of one of my students. He had published a couple of conference papers and one workshop paper covering specific parts of his work and, after the PhD, he wanted to write a journal paper presenting...
by jordicabot | Sep 5, 2014 | doing research, publishing, Research Rants
I’m really enjoying the book Team Geek: A Software Developer’s Guide to Working Well with Others and I strongly recommend it to any software developer out there but that’s not why I’m mentioning it here. I’m doing it because it includes a...
by jordicabot | Aug 4, 2014 | organization, publishing, Research Rants
In the opening session of any conference, the PC Chairs give a brief presentation of the conference. This typically includes informing about the number of abstracts and full papers submitted, the number of papers accepted, the corresponding acceptance rate and some...
by jordicabot | Jun 13, 2014 | publishing, Research Rants
A typical question in every workshop I co-organize is whether we (the organizers) are allowed to submit papers to the workshop. I almost never do it but I have no problem with other co-organizers doing it (I’m assuming we are talking about real workshops, not...
by jordicabot | Mar 5, 2014 | evaluating research, publishing, Research Rants
I took the time to count how many new reviews for the ECMFA’14 conference were uploaded each day to the easychair account for the conference. The results, displayed below, are exactly what I was expecting (it’s also my own behaviour 🙂 ). Even if the...
by jordicabot | Dec 5, 2013 | evaluating research, publishing, Research Rants
Empirical validation is becoming a MUST if you want a publish a research paper on software engineering topics. In principle, this is a good thing, right? I mean, for sure, in a field like ours validating the usefulness/applicability/.. of our new...