Publishing in Top Venues Xuemin Lin School of

Publishing in Top Venues Xuemin Lin School of Computer Science University of New South Wales Australia

Database Group@UNSW (2003 -) 3 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 ¡ ¡ ¡ 20+Ph. D students. Research Interests: core topics in DB, DM, IR, MM. DBG@UNSW

Enjoyable? 3 Make an interesting story and sell it… Tough game but…let us love this game!

Outline 4 v v Topic selection (故事的主题） Techniques Developing （故事的展开） Paper writing （故事的写作） Experiment （故事的现实性）

Topic Selection (new vs existing topics) New topics: q New areas ü tough to promote but go for it ü Very sound applications (e. g. association rules, data cube, etc) q New problem formalization ü tough to promote ü avoid delta variations ü Ø Period-dependent (NP-completeness, probabilistic queries, etc) Semantics validation

Topic Selection (new vs existing topics) q Existing problems ü Need a “big” story ü Complexity breakthroughs! ü Critical observations!

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

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

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