For Ph.D. students, it is most important to publish research papers in academic communities such as professional associations, conference-based communities, and journal-based communities. Believe it or not, it is often said that GPA is not even looked at by employers when considering a doctor for a job position. As it may be the first step to find where to publish for a new Ph.D. student, I am going to talk about the academic communities that I believe I might be part of in the near future.
A subsection of professional association usually holds a conference once a year or every other year. Authors whose papers were chosen to be published are to gather and present their work at a specific location, usually in a university campus. After submission of a conference paper, it takes about two or three months for it to be reviewed and chosen for publication. After the decision, authors often refine their papers and submit them again. It is very attractive that the first authors usually get travel grants to the conference they are accepted by mostly their advisors.
A journal, on the other hand, is just to be published in the form of a book without any presentation. Journal papers are usually longer than conference papers in length. It also takes much longer time, about 2-3 years at worst, for a journal paper to be published. For this reason, people in an area where things change rapidly prefer to publish and read conference papers; journal papers in those areas are often out-of-date while they are still invaluable in the areas of traditional studies.
At this time, my interim goal has been set to publish papers at several conferences including IST Graduate Workshop, and i-Conference 2009. Following conferences will be considered afterward. (they are so called top conferences)
- ACM SIGKDD (Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining)
The primary focus of ACM SIGKDD is to provide the premier forum for advancement and adoption of the "science" of knowledge discovery and data mining by adoption of "standards" in the market in terms of terminology, evaluation and methodology, and by interdisciplinary education among KDD researchers, practitioners and users.
- WWW (World Wide Web) Conference
The International World Wide Web Conferences constitute a series of conferences, usually taking place in May of every year. The location varies year to year, covering Asia, Europe, or North America. The conference is a mixture of academic and industrial content. Beyond the core conference there are also tutorials, workshops, and a separate Developers' Day. The event usually spreads over 5 days.
- IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
IJCAI is the premier international gathering of AI researchers and practitioners. Held biennially in odd-numbered years since 1969, IJCAI is sponsored jointly by International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) , and the national AI societies of the host nations.
As I am working on social network analysis with emphasis on expertise in artificial intelligence, I believe publishing in those three prestigious conferences will be really honorable for my fantastic Ph.D. life and my future career as well.
References
[1] ACM SIGKDD, http://www.sigkdd.org/
[2] WWW Conference, http://www.iw3c2.org/Conferences/index.html
[3] IJCAI, http://www.ijcai.org/
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