How
to set up your researcher identity for academic search engines?(April 25, 2022)
A publication has a set of authors. A single author publishes several
papers. Some authors share the same name. An author has (most of the
time) at least one first name and one family name. These are easy rules
for humans.
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How
to write a good cover letter for an academic journal paper?(August 25, 2020)
When one submits a scientific paper to an academic journal, one
typically writes a cover letter.
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How
to (not) use laptops and phones at scientific talks?(November 24, 2019)
During scientific talks, one sees many people not following the talks
but looking at their screens (laptop, tablet, phone, etc).
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Assessing
research oriented companies with Google Scholar(April 18, 2019)
How to say that a company is “research oriented”? How to assess this
objectively, from the outside? One way to do so is to see if the company
publishes research papers, or even better, if the company publishes
research papers that matter.
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What’s
a scientific conflict of interests?(March 25, 2019)
What’s a conflict of interests? Here is the definition of the European
Research Council, which should reflect the strictest standards
associated with excellent research.
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Journal
extensions are not good for science(February 09, 2019)
In academia, the big business is about publishing papers. There are
different kinds of papers: conference papers, journal articles,
technical reports, monographs.
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Scholar
Bibliographic APIs(November 02, 2018)
This post contains my notes about web APIs to access bibliographic data,
mostly for the sake of open-access. Meta APIs Meta-APIs gather content
from different bibliographic repositories.
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Computational
Research with GPUs in Sweden(August 30, 2018)
If you need to perform computational experiments based on GPUs in Sweden, here is a list of pointers: Academia
SNIC:
KTH’s PDC has nodes with GPUs ref The “Kebnekaise” resource at HPC2N contains nodes with GPUs. >>> read more
How
to do a master’s thesis in my group(July 03, 2018)
Recap. document for a good master’s thesis. May be specific to my field
(computer science / software engineering) and my style of supervision.
Topics Looking for a thesis topic? See
https://www.monperrus.net/martin/topics and contact me by email.
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Open-access
made in Sweden: notes about DIVA (May 19, 2018)
Here are some notes about DIVA and DIVA@KTH.
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Keeping
arXiv’s Light in the Double-blind Obscurity(May
18, 2018)
Over the recent decades, arXiv has created a culture of open-access and
early dissemination that has never existed at this scale in science. At
the same time, in some disciplines, the peer-review process has become
double-blind.
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Open-science
and Double-blind Peer-Review(October 20, 2017)
Recently, double-blind peer-review has fallen over my research community
as a storm. Unfortunately, beyond its noble goal of reducing unfairness,
double-blind peer-review may have detrimental collateral effects on
open-science.
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How
to use LuaTeX and LuaLaTeX on arXiv?(May 30, 2017)
The arXiv open-access archive only supports pdftex/pdflatex. If you like
using LuaLaTeX and all its wonderful features, it is very likely that
you won’t be able to compile it identically using pdflatex.
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Copy
bibtex to clipboard in Google Scholar(May 22, 2017)
I am addicted to Google Scholar. It has found so many excellent papers
related to my research! However, there is one thing for which it sucks:
Bibtex export.
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How
to receive email notifications about new Arxiv papers?(December 05, 2016)
engineering and programming languages? Email You have to write an email
to cs@arxiv.org, with subject subscribe your name and email body: add
Programming Languages add Software Engineering The official (and
unclear) doc is https://arxiv.org/help/subscribe.
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Makitoo:
la réparation à chaud du labo à la startup(September 01,
2016)
Makitoo est une startup issue des travaux de recherche en génie logiciel
menés au laboratoire CRISTAL et Inria Lille, dans l’équipe Spirals.
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The
tasks of a publication chair(August 11, 2016)
What are the duties of a publication chair in a conference? Here are
some humble notes from my small experience and the pieces of advice of
Francesca Lonetti.
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Open-science
and Travis: continuous integration for reproducible scientific
experiments(April 23, 2016)
BLUF: one can use the concepts from continuous integration for achieving
nearly perfectly reproducible computational experiments. A continuous
integration server is a server that compiles and runs automated tests
for each commit of a software project.
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How
to write a good author response?(February 13, 2016)
Peer-review has many different forms. One classical form is the journal
publication process, where authors submit articles, reviewers comment on
it, and the authors are invited to submit a revised version based on the
comments.
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Lab
notes on compiling genprog(January 27, 2016)
Here are some notes on the Genprog automatic repair tool.
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Required
qualifications for research(January 15, 2016)
Here are the key qualifications for successful research in software
technology.
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Allopatric
software diversification(October 16, 2015)
In ecology, allopatric diversification is when the same population is
split in two different locations and diversification happens after the
split. In this post, we present the concept of ``allopatric software
diversification’’, directly inspired from the ecological concept.
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Martin’s
Collection of Bug Stories(September 01,
2015)
I work on automatic repair of software bugs. I love good bugs stories.
Classical (catastrophic) These are even meme.
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Un
flux RSS pour les postes de Galaxie(June 27, 2015)
En France, les postes académiques (Maître de conférence, Professeur) des
Universités dépendantes du Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur sont
publiés sur un site nommé Galaxie.
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The
“revise and resubmit as new” option in peer-review(May
07, 2015)
Recently, as author and reviewer, some academic journals have introduced
a new kind of decision “Revise and resubmit as new”. Definition There is
no official definition of the meaning of “Revise and resubmit as new”.
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Graphical
Understanding of Cohen’s d Effect Size(May 02, 2015)
I’ve just read “A systematic review of effect size in software engineering experiments” (IST, 2007). The authors say that in software engineering, an effect size is considered as:
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Automatic
software repair tools(October 16, 2014)
This page lists automatic software repair tools. The publicly available
ones allow comparative and reproducible open research. If you are aware
of other ones, please send me an email.
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A
Discussion on Antifragile Software(October 15, 2014)
Questions by Russ Miller and Bett Correa. Answers by Martin Monperrus,
based on the paper “Principles of Antifragile Software” Please explain
what is meant by Antifragile by Taleb? Antifragile by Taleb is a
radically new perspective on errors.
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Empirical
Software Engineering Research: Methodology Papers(March 28, 2014)
Here are important papers about empirical research in software
engineering.
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Empirical
studies on bugs(March 26, 2014)
I love bugs. I work on automatic software repair. Hence, I am constantly
looking for empirical knowledge on bugs. Here are the main papers on
this topic. I you know more of them, please drop me an email.
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The
Multiple Goals and Data in Data-Mining for Software Engineering(November 12, 2013)
Data mining for software engineering consists of collecting software
engineering data, extracting some knowledge from it and, if possible,
use this knowledge to improve the software engineering process, in other
words ``operationalize’’ the mined knowledge.
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How
to write a good scientific review(November 12, 2013)
A review is a critical evaluation of a paper. In a usual peer-review
process, a review is meant to be read: by the editor (or the PC chair)
and by the authors. The editor/chair uses it to accept/reject the paper,
the authors get a wealth of information to improve their paper.
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Six
Golden Rules for Writing, Using and Sharing Research Prototypes(April 16, 2013)
A research prototype demonstrates an idea, collects some data for sake
of writing a scientific paper. When it’s software, it must be considered
as a special kind of software.
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The
1000-index: a bibliometric for outstanding scholars(December 31, 2012)
This post proposes a new bibliographic metric for academics, defined as
follows: The 1000-index is the number of papers cited at least a
thousand times. Google has invented the expression “i10-index” (the
number of publications with at least 10 citations).
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Publication
lists with HAL and bibtexbrowser(November 25, 2012)
[[http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/?langue=en|Hal]] is an open-access
archive, similar to [[http://arxiv.org/|Arxiv]]. It is funded and
maintained by French institutions such as [[http://www.cnrs.fr/|CNRS]]
and [[http://www.inria.fr|INRIA]].
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Good
Research(October 31, 2012)
Introduction “The great thing about the research world is that you get
to choose your environment, which consists in large measure of the
members of your network.
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Companion
Web Page for “Abmash: Mashing Up Legacy Web Applications by Automated
Imitation of Human Actions”(May 25, 2012)
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Pointers
on abstract syntax tree differencing algorithms and tools(April 11, 2012)
This post presents papers and tools on semantic source code
differencing. It is a special kind of tree differencing. Unix diff and
successors (CVS, GIT diff) are line-based. On the contrary, semantic
source code diff work on the abstract syntax tree (AST)
[1,2,3,4,5,6,11].
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A
Comparison of Median and Mean(March 26, 2012)
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean|Mean]] and
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median|median]] are two measures to
summarize a data set of N numerical values. However, there are not
equivalent. Here is a thorough comparison of their properties.
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Research
Crew KTH?(February 22, 2012)
student at KTH Frank Garcia, PhD student at KTH André Silva, PhD student at KTH Aman Sharma, PhD student at KTH Sofía Bobadilla, research assistant other travel partners
Carefully advising PhD students to train them to do high-impact science is very important to me. >>> read more
Sciclomatic:
A Peer-to-Peer System for Sharing Scientific Datasets(February 09, 2012)
This post sketches a peer-to-peer system for sharing scientific
datasets. Permalink:
[[http://www.monperrus.net/martin/sciclomatic-sharing-scientific-datasets]]
=====Introduction===== ^^Academics, students and researchers obtain,
create or use data in their experiments.
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RSS
feeds for software engineering academic publications(December 17, 2010)
Here are the main RSS feeds for academic publications related to
software engineering. The inclusion in the feed depends on the publisher
reputation (currently the major academic publishers) and on the ISI Web
of Knowledge bibliometrics.
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Graphical
Visualization for Understanding the f1-score(December 12, 2010)
F1 is a standard evaluation metric from information retrieval research.
It combines the precision and the recall. In order to understand this
combination, here is a visualization of the landscape of the
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1_score|F1-score]].
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Accurate
bibliographic metadata and google scholar(October 27, 2009)
It is often the case that the metadata (e.g. title, authors, etc) that
is automatically extracted by Google Scholar’s robot is incorrect. There
is a way to give Google Scholar the correct bibliographic metadata of
your publications.
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Users
of bibtexbrowser(May 15, 2009)
[[http://www.monperrus.net/martin/bibtexbrowser/|bibtexbrowser]] for
their publication list! You can add your group/name by
[[https://github.com/monperrus/bibtexbrowser/edit/master/bibtexbrowser-users.wiki|editing
it on GitHub]].
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bibtexbrowser:
publication lists with bibtex and PHP(September 11,
2007)
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