Do's and Don't of Independent Study (IS)

THE POST ISN'T COMPLETE  AND BASED ON SOME PRACTICES THAT MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT SUCCEED.

Do's

1.  Try to find a topic of your relevance e.g. if you are a web developer go for web related research, if mobile developer choose any mobile related topic. This will not only help you enhance your knowledge but your burden will be shortened as well.
2. Create a folder in your PC for storing all research related stuff.
3. Maintain a file for your hard copy stuff. (I also place the Research Methodologies notes along with this file)
4. Use http://portal.acm.org/results.cfm to search your topic. You will get a list of research paper here.
5. Select the research paper you want to get. Simply Google it (with and without quotes try both). Mostly you will be able to find your paper within first two pages of Google search.
6. While saving the research paper try to put it under a folder named on the conference it is published in.

Don't

1. Try to find a specific topic. I have proposed a general topic for the first time and my proposal got rejected.
2. Usually authors from developing countries (like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc) don't post pdf's of their articles. So if you are unable to find article within the first 10 minutes try not to waste you time. Also add that author to you blacklist to avoid any further wastage of your time.

Links to search Research Papers

http://portal.acm.org/results.cfm

 

IS Schedule (Spring 2011)

• 2nd week:- IS proposal approval from Advisor till end of
• 3rd week:-  IS Proposal Approval from MS Corodinator till end of
• 4th week:- Approved IS Proposal Submission to Academic till end of
• 8th week:- Mid Semester Presentation in
• 12th week:- Final IS Long and Short Reports Submission to Advisor
• 13th week:- Advisor's Feed Back on both Short and Long Reports
• 14th week:- Final IS both Reports Approval by MS Coordinator
• 15th week:- IS Reports Submission to Academic with CD
• 18th week:- Presentations

Conferences Calendars

http://www.usenix.org/event/

ACM and IEEE Affiliated Design Automation Conferences, Workshops, and Symposia 

Some Useful links

1. http://w2spconf.com/2010/
2. http://journal.webscience.org/view/events/WebSci10=3A_Extending_the_Frontiers_of_Society_On-Line/paper.html
3. http://www.usenix.org/events/sec10/tech/techAbstracts.html
4. http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html
5. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/ds-red/
6. http://seclab.stanford.edu/websec/
7. http://www.w3.org/
8. http://jisr.szabist.edu.pk/index.html
9. http://www.pubzone.org 

List of Computer Science Journals

Computer science

• ACM Computing Reviews
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journal of Computational Science
• Communications of the ACM
• Computer
• IEEE Transactions on Computers
• International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems
• Journal of Functional Programming
• Journal of Machine Learning Research
• Journal of the ACM
• SIAM Journal on Computing

Note:- Kindly report if you found any other journal.

Difference between Symposium, Conference, WorkShop and Journal

1.       Symposium: A 'super-conference' of smaller conferences, e.g.: http://www.ieee-ssci.org/

a.       a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations

 

2.       Conference: e.g. http://www.computelligence.org/sis/2007/

a.       one of the conferences as part of the symposium, above.

b.      Conferences are occasional or annual meetings organized by a committee, with a group of appointed paper reviewers who review submissions and select the most suitable, original, best etc. papers for publication in a book: 'conference proceedings'.

c.       Conferences are self-funded - i.e. people attend because they are interested in the conference subject matter. People who attend pay a registration fee, which provides for e.g. a printed book of proceedings for all registrants.

3.       Workshop:

a.       There are nominal differences between a workshop and a conference paper

b.      A workshop paper isn't technically a publication and is typically meant to represent work-in-progress

c.       Nowadays, workshops are typically very topically-focused and non necessarily any less quality than a conference paper

d.      That being said, I think it’s safe to say workshop papers are generally regarded as less prestigious than conference papers.

 

4.       Journal: e.g. one of Nature's publications, http://www.nature.com/ng/index.html

a.       Journals are usually peer-reviewed, which means your paper was carefully evaluated for errors and possibly rewritten a few times. It also could have been rejected. Conference papers (or proceedings) take whatever you send them if you participated in the conference. Journal articles (from peer-reviewed journals) are better.