recent conferences to go

I'm working on papers to submit to CIKM or ICDE.

I just checked both conferences, one requires 10 pages, and the other requires 12 pages.

The ridiculous thing is that once you are accepted as short paper, you have to reduce to 2 pages for CIKM, and 4 pages for ICDE.

some notes on professional writing

1. should use punctuations in equations.
2. Avoid starting a sentence with a mathematical expression, seperate symbols by puncutation marks or words.
3. "the" is inapproprieate when the object referred is not unique or does not exist
4. write "the kth term", not "the k-th term"
5. two types of ellipsis, vertically centered and ground level. The latter is used between a list of symbols or to indicate a product. A_1...A_n. i = 1, 2, ..., n
6. Several commonly used abbreviations, e.g., i.e., et al.,

7. avoid using the adj or advs. very, rather, quite, nice, interesting (all these are imprecise). So is "essentially"