1. CONCRETE
META-RESEARCH
- How to collect, manage, and read papers?
Tao He
elfinhe@gmail.com
Software Engineering Laboratory
Department of Computer Science, Sun Yat-Sen University
With thanks to our supervisors: Prof. Li and Prof. Zhou
October 2011
Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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2. CONCRETE
META-RESEARCH
 “Our professors often talk
abstractly and high-level?”
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3. Motivation of this talk
 Share research tools and experience
 Discover stains and pitfalls of my habits
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4. How to access Internet without limits?
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5. VPNs
 goagent
 http://code.google.com/p/goagent/ “越过长城，走向世界”
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6. Auto Proxy for browsers
 Switchy!
 http://code.google.com/p/switchyplus/
 Auto Switch Rules:
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7. How to find first-tier
conferences/journals in a specific
research area?
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8. Microsoft Academic Search
 Top conferences ( find research trends)
 http://academic.research.microsoft.com/RankList?entitytype=3&topDomainID=2&subD
omainID=4&last=5&start=1&end=100
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9. Microsoft Academic Search
 Top journals ( find evaluation methods)
 http://academic.research.microsoft.com/RankList?entitytype=4&topDomainID=2&subD
omainID=4&last=0&start=1&end=100
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10. WIKIPEDIA
 List of computer science conferences
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_science_conferences
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11. How to get the paper list of a
particular conference?
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12. DBLP (Digital Bibliography &
Library Project)
 DBLP listed more than 1.3 million articles
on computer science in January 2010.
 http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/
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13. DBLP (Digital Bibliography &
Library Project)
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14. DBLP (Digital Bibliography &
Library Project)
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15. DBLP (Digital Bibliography &
Library Project)
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16. DBLP (Digital Bibliography &
Library Project)
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17. DBLP (Digital Bibliography &
Library Project)
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18. DBLP (Digital Bibliography &
Library Project)
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19. How to search a paper? (in others‟
references, by author name, by
keyword)
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20. Complete Search DBLP
 http://www.dblp.org/search/
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21. Complete Search DBLP
 Ranked by publication time
 Based on Ajax query
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22. Google Scholar
 Ranked by relevance and citation number
 Show versions through different databases
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23. Google Scholar
 Ranked by relevance and citation number
 Show versions from different databases
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24. Google Scholar
 Ranked by relevance and citation number
 Show versions from different databases
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25. What are the common research
databases in Computer Science? (for
the purpose of downloading full-text
papers)
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26. IEEE Xplore
 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/guesthome.jsp
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27. IEEE Xplore
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28. ACM Digital Library
 http://dl.acm.org/
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29. ACM Digital Library
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30. How to manage papers in local host?
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31. Note Express
 Tortoise
 http://682.116.65.75/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=1&
name=DLFE-381.ppt
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32. How to search papers in local host?
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33. Everything
 Much faster than the original „find‟ tool
 http://www.voidtools.com/
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34. Note Express
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35. How to take notes for papers?
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36. Note Express
 You can even copy screenshots into a note!
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37. Google Notebook
 HTML format-copy
 Synchronization
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38. Google Notebook
 Export as HTML
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39. How to generate citation?
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40. IEEE Xplore
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41. ACM Digital Library
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42. Note Express
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43. ACM Ref
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44. What resources can we utilize in our
library?
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45. Resources in our library
 Please visit - http://library.sysu.edu.cn/web/guest/fwzn/dzpx
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46. How to get a quick preview of
terminology?
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47. WIKIPEDIA
 E.g., „mutation testing‟
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48. How to find similar papers?
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49. Keywords
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50. Keywords
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51. References
James A. Jones, James F. Bowring, and Mary Jean Harrold.
2007. Debugging in Parallel. In Proceedings of the 2007
international symposium on Software testing and
analysis (ISSTA '07). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16-26.
DOI=10.1145/1273463.1273468
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1273463.1273468
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52. References
 Names of authors
James A. Jones, James F. Bowring, and Mary Jean Harrold.
2007. Debugging in Parallel. In Proceedings of the 2007
international symposium on Software testing and
analysis (ISSTA '07). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16-26.
DOI=10.1145/1273463.1273468
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1273463.1273468
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53. References
 Title
James A. Jones, James F. Bowring, and Mary Jean Harrold.
2007. Debugging in Parallel. In Proceedings of the 2007
international symposium on Software testing and
analysis (ISSTA '07). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16-26.
DOI=10.1145/1273463.1273468
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1273463.1273468
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54. References
 Conference name or journal name
James A. Jones, James F. Bowring, and Mary Jean Harrold.
2007. Debugging in Parallel. In Proceedings of the 2007
international symposium on Software testing and
analysis (ISSTA '07). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16-26.
DOI=10.1145/1273463.1273468
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1273463.1273468
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55. References
 Address
James A. Jones, James F. Bowring, and Mary Jean Harrold.
2007. Debugging in Parallel. In Proceedings of the 2007
international symposium on Software testing and
analysis (ISSTA '07). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16-26.
DOI=10.1145/1273463.1273468
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1273463.1273468
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56. References
 Digital object identifier
James A. Jones, James F. Bowring, and Mary Jean Harrold.
2007. Debugging in Parallel. In Proceedings of the 2007
international symposium on Software testing and
analysis (ISSTA '07). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16-26.
DOI=10.1145/1273463.1273468
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1273463.1273468
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57. Homepage of authors
 Google it!
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58. Homepage of authors
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59. Homepage of laboratory
 We can find technical reports here
 E.g. (http://swerl.tudelft.nl/bin/view/Main/TechnicalReports)
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60. How to read a paper?
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61. Papers are written in *one* template?
Abstract
The presence of multiple faults in a program can inhibit the ability
of fault-localization techniques to locate the faults. This problem
occurs for two reasons: when a program fails, the number of faults is,
in general, unknown; and certain faults may mask or obfuscate other
faults. This paper presents our approach to solving this problem that
leverages the well-known advantages of parallel work flows to reduce
the time-to-release of a program. Our approach consists of a
technique that enables more effective debugging in the presence of
multiple faults and a methodology that enables multiple developers to
simultaneously debug multiple faults. The paper also presents an
empirical study that demonstrates that our parallel-
debugging technique and methodology can yield a dramatic decrease
in total debugging time compared to a one-fault-at-a-time, or
conventionally sequential, approach.
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62. Papers are written in *one* template?
Abstract
The presence of multiple faults in a program can inhibit the ability
of fault-localization techniques to locate the faults. This problem
occurs for two reasons: when a program fails, the number of faults is,
in general, unknown; and certain faults may mask or obfuscate other
faults. This paper presents our approach to solving this problem that
leverages the well-known advantages of parallel work flows to reduce
the time-to-release of a Background
program. Our approach consists of a
technique that enables more effective debugging in the presence of
multiple faults and a methodology that enables multiple developers to
simultaneously debug multiple faults. The paper also presents an
empirical study that demonstrates that our parallel-
debugging technique and methodology can yield a dramatic decrease
in total debugging time compared to a one-fault-at-a-time, or
conventionally sequential, approach.
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63. Papers are written in *one* template?
Abstract
The presence of multiple faults in a program can inhibit the ability
of fault-localization techniques to locate the faults. This problem
occurs for two reasons: when a program fails, the number of faults is,
in general, unknown; and certain faults may mask or obfuscate other
faults. This paper presents our approach to solving this problem that
leverages the well-known advantages of parallel work flows to reduce
the time-to-release of a MotivationOur approach consists of a
program.
technique that enables more effective debugging in the presence of
multiple faults and a methodology that enables multiple developers to
simultaneously debug multiple faults. The paper also presents an
empirical study that demonstrates that our parallel-
debugging technique and methodology can yield a dramatic decrease
in total debugging time compared to a one-fault-at-a-time, or
conventionally sequential, approach.
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64. Papers are written in *one* template?
Abstract
The presence of multiple faults in a program can inhibit the ability
of fault-localization techniques to locate the faults. This problem
occurs for two reasons: when a program fails, the number of faults is,
in general, unknown; and certain faults may mask or obfuscate other
faults. This paper presents our approach to solving this problem that
leverages the well-known advantages of parallel work flows to reduce
the time-to-release The authors‟ approach
of a program. Our approach consists of a
technique that enables more effective debugging in the presence of
multiple faults and a methodology that enables multiple developers to
simultaneously debug multiple faults. The paper also presents an
empirical study that demonstrates that our parallel-
debugging technique and methodology can yield a dramatic decrease
in total debugging time compared to a one-fault-at-a-time, or
conventionally sequential, approach.
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65. Papers are written in *one* template?
Abstract
The presence of multiple faults in a program can inhibit the ability
of fault-localization techniques to locate the faults. This problem
occurs for two reasons: when a program fails, the number of faults is,
in general, unknown; and certain faults may mask or obfuscate other
faults. This paper presents our approach to solving this problem that
leverages the well-known advantages of parallel work flows to reduce
the time-to-release ofinsights of thisOur approach consists of a
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technique that enables more effective debugging in the presence of
multiple faults and a methodology that enables multiple developers to
simultaneously debug multiple faults. The paper also presents an
empirical study that demonstrates that our parallel-
debugging technique and methodology can yield a dramatic decrease
in total debugging time compared to a one-fault-at-a-time, or
conventionally sequential, approach.
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66. Papers are written in *one* template?
Abstract
The presence of multiple faults in a program can inhibit the ability
of fault-localization techniques to locate the faults. This problem
occurs for two reasons: when a program fails, the number of faults is,
in general, unknown; and certain faults may mask or obfuscate other
faults. This paper presents our approach to solving this problem that
leverages the well-known advantages of parallel work flows to reduce
the time-to-release of a program. results
Evaluation and Our approach consists of a
technique that enables more effective debugging in the presence of
multiple faults and a methodology that enables multiple developers to
simultaneously debug multiple faults. The paper also presents an
empirical study that demonstrates that our parallel-
debugging technique and methodology can yield a dramatic decrease
in total debugging time compared to a one-fault-at-a-time, or
conventionally sequential, approach.
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67. I hope this talk will be helpful…
Q&A
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68. Thank you!
Contact me via elfinhe@gmail.com
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69. Outline
 Tools
 Cross the Great Wall via VPNs
 Databases of publications
 Local management
 Everything
 Note Express
 Rules
 Top conferences/journals
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70. Tools 工
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事
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器
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71. Skills of graduate students
Skills of graduate
students
Information acquisition Presentation (e.g. giving
Technical skills (e.g. Evaluation skills ( e.g.
skills (e.g. paper-reading, a talk and
programming, performance empirical study and
points extraction, and communication via
improvement, and validation) statistical analysis)
asking questions) emails)
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72. Others
 Springer Online Library
 Wiley Inter Science
 Elsevier Online Library
 Science Direct
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73. Resources in our library
 Please visit - http://library.sysu.edu.cn/web/guest/fwzn/dzpx
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74. Massive resources
 Please visit - http://library.sysu.edu.cn/web/guest/fwzn/dzpx
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75. Open courseware
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