文档介绍：How to Write and Publish Research Papers for the Premier Forums in Knowledge & Data Engineering
Xindong Wu
Department puter Science
University of Vermont
USA;
合肥工业大学计算机应用长江学者讲座教授
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Contents
Some TKDE and ICDM statistics
Scientific writing and paper structure
What to know and how to write a top-quality paper
A promising topic
A convincing case
In-depth analysis of empirical results
The most important part: the introduction
How to publish at ICDM and TKDE
Paper reviewing and its feedback
Summary of take-home messages
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Focused Areas in Knowledge & Data Engineering
Data Mining
Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD)
Intelligent Data Analysis
Database Systems
Data Management
Data Engineering
Knowledge Engineering
Semantic Web
Knowledge-Based Systems
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Major Forums in Data Mining
Conferences (conference publications are extremely important puter Science):
The birth of data mining/KDD: 1989 IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Databases
1991-1994 Workshops on Knowledge Discovery in Databases
1995 – date: International Conferences on Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Data Mining (KDD)
2001 – date: IEEE ICDM and SIAM-DM (SDM)
Several regional conferences, incl. PAKDD (since 1997) & PKDD (since 1997)
Journals (top journals vs high-impact journals):
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD, since 1997)
Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS, since 1999)
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
Many others, incl. TPAMI, ML, IDA, …
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ACM KDD vs. IEEE ICDM
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TKDE Submission Numbers and Acceptance Rates
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Why Write a Scientific Paper
Advance knowledge in your research field with evidence
Explain your ideas and make them accessible to others
Two ponents in a research paper:
An explicit claim on your contribution on a research problem
Evidence to support your claim
Your contribution can pos