what's your chance of acceptance if you submit late?

Just came across this question:

The same paper, which one would have a higher chance of being accepted in a conference?

Submit early? normal? or submit late?


Basically, would a larger submission number gives you a higher chance of being accepted?

I believe so.

Actually, as a reviewer and author, I have seen many people rushing their paper for a conference especially in CS. So a large submission number automatically hint that "the paper is rushed". So somehow the reviewer would have a low expectation. Then a good quality paper would stands out in the local region and is likely to get accepted.

Of course, this is just a small trick and no evidence can be found.

A simple way to avoid this bias is to reshuffle the paper when assigning them to the reviwers. Such that the paper's reviewer number has no correlation with the quality. Then, that seems a more fair process.

Just my 2 cents.

A special issue of network analysis on Science

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/325/5939/405

Quite interesting special issue.

"It is not enough to look at patterns; we need to study how they evolve and change."

Recent Update

Finished conference papers for ICDM and CIKM. (Still a paper of understanding groups in progress, probably submitting to WSDM)


Need to come back to the journal papers and thesis proposal now.

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"

what's the point of 30% new material?

I decide to convert my KDD08 paper into a journal version. Unfortunately, it is said that I have to add at least 30% new materials.

The sad thing is that I have wrote too much for the conference paper, since I want to make the paper more solid and comprehensive.

But it turns out I have nothing to add for the journal paper(Of course, you can always add something new but the cost is way too high, almost another journal paper).

So that's what I learned from this class:
Don't write too much in one conference paper.

It's really funny and ridiculous.

Avoid being yesterday's sucker

I have been a sucker for a long while. Thanks to this miserable time, I, right now, start to read more than ever before. Though my reading speed is still too low considering the English context. However, this do give me insights and a hilarous time.

My goal, avoid being yesterday's sucker and do something solid!