Search Methods --sharing my own experience Cyrus 11/09/08

Motivations Search difficulty in the beginning? How to perform surveys? Which conference/journal to submit? Share my personal experience

General methods Types of Information Sources

General methods Types of Information Sources New, up-to-date  Old, long period Informal, incomplete  Formal, complete Workshop, Conference, Journals, Books

General methods Effective Search Strategies – Find background information – Perform Exploratory Searches – Identify Major Concepts and Generate Search Vocabularies synonyms for your keywords, variations in spelling, abbreviations, and acronyms Formulate a Search Statement – Truncation and Wildcards – Phrase Searching and Proximity Operators Use the Right Tools to Start Your Search Evaluate Your Search Results and Refine Your Topic if Necessary

External resources lib.cuhk.edu.hk Library Workshops for September - November 2008 – Programme 2: Advanced Library Catalogue Searching – Programme 3: Searching Journal Articles – Programme 5: Effective Internet Searching

External resources News –Locating Library (for Engineering Postgraduates) –20 Sept 2008 (Sat) 2pm - 5pm at User Education Room 1, University Library If you are interested to join this class, please register here: – ear/logon.asphttps://mmlab.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/Cl ear/logon.asp –Course name: Locating Library (group 4)

Right places to go Bioinformatics related

Right places to go

Where to submit Conferences –Big brands: IEEE, ACM, LNCS –Prestigious ones: google “computer science conference ranking” –Bioinformatics related

Where to submit Journals –IEEE, ACM Transactions, Elsevier… –ISI Web of Knowledge Journal Citation Reports® additional_resources.do?highlig hted_tab=additional_resources &product=WOS&SID=2DkDgDd bm4ohLDdPh74&cacheurl=nohttp://apps.isiknowledge.com/ additional_resources.do?highlig hted_tab=additional_resources &product=WOS&SID=2DkDgDd bm4ohLDdPh74&cacheurl=no

Also where to look for papers The selected conferences, journals from above –Classic works (State-of-the- art) –Up-to-date works (Novel findings)

Survey? Complete closure 1. Find an appropriate paper (the starting point) to be included in the closure 2. Look at the papers it cites and include them 3. Until the closure converges --complete but very expensive in terms of time and efforts

Survey? Review closure 1. Find a most updated survey/review/assessment paper 2. Look at the reviews it cites and include them 3. Until the closure converges 4. For old methods, it is easier to find them together in a book --relatively complete and more efficient

Survey? Heuristic method Find a most updated and prestigious paper Look at its related work/background—try to judge whether its summarization is good Try to see papers/reviews it cites in a similar way, until you think the representative methods are all included --most efficient but it requires your summarization capacity and depends on the paper qualities you look at Risky!?

Discussions Benchmark Datasets –Download from the supplementary materials of survey papers –Contact the authors—if they are nice guys I’m still a beginner and appreciate all your suggestions

Thank you