How to write a scientific paper Fausto Giunchiglia Literature: Jeffrey A. Lee, The scientific endeavor, 2000 Bruno Buchberger, Thinking Speaking Writing By Fausto Giunchiglia and Alessandro Tomasi

1.Role of Papers 2.Analysis of audience 3.Analysis of kind of paper 4.Defining Goals 5.Structuring Papers 6.The Process 7.Style Index:

1. Role of Papers

“I have got the idea but I cannot express it” 1. Role of Papers This is nonsense

1. Role of Papers Role of parts of Papers: support the process of expressing an idea show your result relate to existing scientific work enable readers to learn / continue their work

2. Analysis of audience

“First I’ll write the paper and then I’ll publish it” This is nonsense

Depends on the audience: Age Scholarship Background Scientific Community 2. Analysis of audience

3. Analysis of kind of papers

1.TechRep 2.Workshop Paper 3.Top Conference 4.Journal 5.Invited Talks 3. Analysis of kind of papers

Kind of publications archival publications not archival publications ISBN/ISSN publications 3. Analysis of kind of papers

It’s the writer’s business to make the reader’s life as easy as possible 2. Analysis of kind of papers

A Paper must be: Self-Explanatory Self-Contained

2. Analysis of kind of papers To plan long in advance is the difference from accepting and rejecting Deadline of a Conference Decide which conference to submit the paper Write it 3…6 months [for a PHD Student] 3 months [for a PHD student] Write it

4. Defining Goals

The process from Analysis to Synthesis Until you have written a paper, the research is not finished

4. Defining Goals One paper one message Ask yourself: What is your goal? (a new technique, a new experimentation) What did you try to do? What have you done? How did you do this? What is the core idea?

Message = Core Idea = Goal A goal may be a sub-goal of another goal A goal may be a prerequisite for another goal 4. Defining Goals

5. Structuring Papers

After defining your goal, you can start working on the structure of the paper 5.1 Coarse Grained 5.2 Fine Grained

Do the Writing according to the following Sequence 1.Tentative Title A 2.Write your Main Idea D 3.Write Introduction C 4.Write Conclusions E 5.Finalize the Title A 6.Write the Abstract B 5. Structuring Papers

A B C D E F 1.Title 2.Abstract 3.Introduction 4.Work out of main idea 5.Details of main idea 6.Conclusions 7.Appendixes 5. Structuring Papers

In Title, Abstract, Introduction, Conclusions - same thing at different levels of detail - different purposes 5. Structuring Papers

A 1.Title: A short sentence with the description of your work Goal: convince reader to read abstract 3-5 words 5. Structuring Papers

A 1.Title Structure: 1.Name of the problem solved 2.Data Domain 3.Solution 5. Structuring Papers

A 1.Title Structure: Example 1. Data Domain Data Coordination in Peer-to-Peer DataBase 2.Name of the problem to be solved: Peer-to-Peer DataBase 3.Solution: Semantic Matching in Heterogeneous DB’s 5. Structuring Papers

A 1.Title Structure: how to find a title 5. Structuring Papers A table with problems, solutions and domains: Title is a combinations of this words… ProblemsSolutionsDomain Heterogenity DBMatchingP2P Database …Semantic MatchingBioinformatics ……

B 2.Abstract A paragraph with the description of your work Goal: convince reader to read the paper 10 lines 5. Structuring Papers

B 2.Abstract Components 1.Name of the Problem Solved 2.Data Domain 3.Solution 4.What is new 5.NO CITATIONS 5. Structuring Papers

C 3.Introduction Some paragraph with the set of goals of your work Goal: establish main message of paper 1 page 5. Structuring Papers

C 3.Introduction 1.[Context + to get the idea]  1 paragraph (NO citations) 2.Problem + Citations  ≤ 20 lines 3.Approach + Solutions  ≤ 20 lines 4.[Why you are novel] 5.Structure of the Paper, by sections  ≤ 20 lines 6.[Auxiliary Material (Notations, Observations, How to read it,…)] 5. Structuring Papers