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> Nonetheless, your paper alone should provide a good enough description of the conditions and methods you used for the paper to be reproducible. Too bad there

by rspeer 10y ago

> Nonetheless, your paper alone should provide a good enough description of the conditions and methods you used for the paper to be reproducible. Too bad there's an 8-page limit, then.

kilburn 10y ago
8 pages now? It used to be 6. Anyway, 8 pages can fit a lot of explanation/discussion. Also, keep in mind that AAAI is a conference, where you are supposed to present promising research that you are still edging out. Finished works are supposed to be presented in journals, where space constraints are typically more relaxed. On a personal note: I'm sick of smart-ass reviewers, unprofessional researchers, results over-selling (to put it mildly) and so on. I think the whole system is so corrupted that i just quit research in despair. Unfortunately, I don't see how blogs and/or just "publish the code" would magically solve all those problems. Anyway, publishing your code is certainly a good thing to, so I applaud and encourage you to keep doing it!
- rspeer 10y ago
  > Also, keep in mind that AAAI is a conference, where you are supposed to present promising research that you are still edging out. Finished works are supposed to be presented in journals, where space constraints are typically more relaxed. This is a dated view of AI research. Promising research appears in workshops, blogs, and/or arXiV. Finished research appears in conferences. Nobody's sure what journals are for.
  - kilburn 10y ago
    Talk to your advisor about that. Everybody is pretty sure that journals are to support your academic curriculum: good luck getting postdoc positions without Q1's under your belt. Of course if you are in one of the Ivy league universities this may be different. Otherwise... yeah, you can feel research moves too fast for journals, but curricular evaluation practices moves even slower.
    - BeetleB 10y ago
      >Talk to your advisor about that. Everybody is pretty sure that journals are to support your academic curriculum: good luck getting postdoc positions without Q1's under your belt. I agree with GP. The view that conference publications is less important than journal papers is inaccurate, depending on your field. In my field, it's as you describe. Conference papers are not polished, and journal publications is what matters in your academic career. For many of my peers in some disciplines in CS, it was the opposite. Getting into a highly regarded conference was much more valued than publishing in a journal. Then I found this was not limited to CS. It really just depends on your discipline's culture.

by rspeer 10y ago

> Nonetheless, your paper alone should provide a good enough description of the conditions and methods you used for the paper to be reproducible. Too bad there's an 8-page limit, then.

kilburn 10y ago

8 pages now? It used to be 6. Anyway, 8 pages can fit a lot of explanation/discussion. Also, keep in mind that AAAI is a conference, where you are supposed to present promising research that you are still edging out. Finished works are supposed to be presented in journals, where space constraints are typically more relaxed. On a personal note: I'm sick of smart-ass reviewers, unprofessional researchers, results over-selling (to put it mildly) and so on. I think the whole system is so corrupted that i just quit research in despair. Unfortunately, I don't see how blogs and/or just "publish the code" would magically solve all those problems. Anyway, publishing your code is certainly a good thing to, so I applaud and encourage you to keep doing it!

rspeer 10y ago
> Also, keep in mind that AAAI is a conference, where you are supposed to present promising research that you are still edging out. Finished works are supposed to be presented in journals, where space constraints are typically more relaxed. This is a dated view of AI research. Promising research appears in workshops, blogs, and/or arXiV. Finished research appears in conferences. Nobody's sure what journals are for.
- kilburn 10y ago
  Talk to your advisor about that. Everybody is pretty sure that journals are to support your academic curriculum: good luck getting postdoc positions without Q1's under your belt. Of course if you are in one of the Ivy league universities this may be different. Otherwise... yeah, you can feel research moves too fast for journals, but curricular evaluation practices moves even slower.
  - BeetleB 10y ago
    >Talk to your advisor about that. Everybody is pretty sure that journals are to support your academic curriculum: good luck getting postdoc positions without Q1's under your belt. I agree with GP. The view that conference publications is less important than journal papers is inaccurate, depending on your field. In my field, it's as you describe. Conference papers are not polished, and journal publications is what matters in your academic career. For many of my peers in some disciplines in CS, it was the opposite. Getting into a highly regarded conference was much more valued than publishing in a journal. Then I found this was not limited to CS. It really just depends on your discipline's culture.