Questions tagged [conferences]
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Are theoretical computer science conferences losing touch with reality?
Anonymous account for obvious reasons. I am a researcher in TCS. I have several publications in SODA/STOC/FOCS. I've recently been so disgruntled with the way these conferences are run, and wanted to ...
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FOCS virtual fee $600
I'm not sure this is on topic here, but probably can be best answered by this community, so I'm posting it as a soft-question.
Due to the pandemic, FOCS 2021 will be a virtual conference. Most ...
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Understanding a conference reviewer comment
I submitted my first paper to ICALP 2021 and just got the reviews back after receiving a rejection a couple of days ago. The reviews were overall positive with nearly all of the comments on ...
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How do conference proceedings add to academic prestige?
I come from mathematics and, for whatever reason, am trying to publish in theoretical computer science. I'm still trying to understand the role of conference proceedings, and I have two specific ...
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What are the criteria for inviting conference papers (e.g. SODA) for special issue?
This is mostly for some immigration related document that I am trying to write and want to reference an online link which mentions that only a select few papers are invited for special issue for SODA ...
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Is it a bad idea to critique someone's paper in my first publication?
I am currently facing a situation that I am not sure how to handle.
Basically, there is this problem $A$. Problem $A$ has been a hot topic in the past $5$ years. Last year, a paper was published in ...
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Notification vs List of Accepted Papers
Why do conferences in TCS take so long to send reviewer's comments and to publish the list of accepted papers?
I guess that sending reviewers comments some days after notification makes some sense, ...
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Correcting a conference paper error in the journal version
In a conference paper, in order to prove the $\mathsf{NP}$-completeness of a problem, I wrote the stupid sentence "It is clear that the problem is in $\mathsf{NP}$. So we will prove that it is $\...
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Advice for a mathematician trying to present a paper at a CS conference?
I am a mathematician who works primarily in the spectral theory of self-adjoint and unitary operators. Some of my research is of relevance in quantum walks, and I have one paper in particular that I ...
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Is the proceedings of WG 2015 published?
Within theoretical computer science, the "Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG)" is one of the main specialized venues for publication of papers dealing with graph theory. It's ...
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What does it take to be accepted to FUN?
I've just understood that FUN's deadline is slowly approaching. The conference page is very vague about what kind of fun they are looking for. So the question is: what the FUN committee is looking for?...
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SODA '15 Page Limits
The SODA '15 submission rules state that "The submission, excluding title page, bibliography and appendix, must not exceed 10 pages."
However, the website does not define "title page." Does "title ...
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TCS conferences for undergraduate students?
I have noticed that ICFP has a student volunteer program and research program that accepts undergraduate students and POPL have the Programming Language Mentoring Workshop, so I was wondering if there ...
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List of TCS conferences along with important dates
I saw that there is a post with a List of TCS conferences. However, this does not list important dates like conference date, submission deadline etc. Is there any post or website which maintains these ...
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Are there websites for TCS announcements that maintain mailing-lists or web feeds?
For a while, I have been wondering if there exists some site where you can subscribe to receive TCS-conference announcements via e-mail, or, alternatively, that offers some periodically-updated web-...
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Open access journals
With the advent of internet (and common sense) there is more and more demand for open-access research. Several researchers (including me) find it frustrating that published peer-reviewed research ...
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Required delta between proceedings and journal versions
I am recently getting my papers rejected from journals (i.e., TALG) on the mere basis of not having a significant difference between the journal and proceedings (i.e., SODA) version.
The main reasons ...
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Advice for attending my first TCS conference
I will be attending my first computer science conference and after reading the advice for how to improve conferences I noticed the several suggestions were about grad students attending their first ...
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List of TCS conferences and workshops
I would like to ask for help in compiling a list of as many TCS-related conferences and workshops as possible. My main motivation for doing this is to plan possible blog coverage of more theory ...
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How did TCS become conference-oriented rather than journal-oriented?
Disclaimer: I can only vouch for my research fields, namely formal methods, semantics and programming language theory. The situation is possibly different in other parts of the discipline.
It seems ...
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Importance of ACM/IEEE in TCS conference
Recently I was in an ACM supported conference.
During the banquet, the conference organizers told us about the future and past of the conference. They told us that during the 2010 edition of the ...
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How to become referee for TCS papers and conferences
I moved somehow from biophysics to a mixed team where we usually publish in TCS journal / conferences. For getting funding, in the European country where I live, it is advisable to show in your CV ...
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Quality of a conference
I am a physicist working in TCS in a new group. I would like to know, given a conference (imagine your favorite ones), how can I know the quality of this conference and also the quality of the ...
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How do you decide when you have enough research results to write a paper and to which journal you submit the paper
In some research area in CS we got some very interesting results. Now we are thinking about publishing them. In the group we are, the philosophy is to publish inmediately small things in conference ...
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Small steps for better TCS conferences?
Often, when we take part in TCS conferences, we notice some little details that we wish the conference organisers would have taken care of. And when we are organising conferences, we have already ...