Michael Sirivianos


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Academic Ranking Tool

If you are looking for a reliable means to identify top computer science authors/papers/conferences/journals, check out Libra Academic Search, by MSR Asia. Check out their papers for details on their generalized PageRank-like methodology. 

In contrast to arbitrary rankings, such as the ones published at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/guofei/CS_ConfRank.htm and www.cs-conference-ranking.org/, Libra uses a methodology based on advanced  information retrieval and keyword-based object-level ranking techniques. For Libra's computer science conference rankings, they have indexed most of Computer Science literature until 2005-2006. It is similar to citeseer's estimated impact of venues but more accurate. In addition to citations, it considers the ranking of  paper authors and the ranking of publication venues.  This work is related to a project  by the database folks at UCSD,  called ObjectRank.

Their ranking is  inaccurate for relatively new or otherwise insufficiently indexed venues, such as NSDI and USENIX Security (they currently have only 20-50 papers indexed). In general, good conferences have a greater or close to 5 citation to publication ratio. You will notice that some of the undoubtedly most prestigious conferences and journals (SIGCOMM, SOSP, OSDI, NSDI, ToCS, SIGGRAPH, SIGMOD, PLDI, ISCA etc) have citation ratios that are equal to or higher than 20.

Links to some of my friends' sites (in alphabetical order):     

Ang Li

Claudio Soriente

Ersin Uzun,

Jong Han Park,

Karim El Defrawy

Mayur Deshpande

Minas Gjoka

Mishari I. Almishari

Nikitas Liogkas

Fragkiskos Papadopoulos

Rex Chen

Vlad Balan

Xin Liu



Usefull advices by some very smart people:

Unsolicited advice on CS independent work

Preparing a talk

How not to write a system's paper

The science of scientific writing

C programming tips

Selecting publication venues

P2P, DSM, and Other Products from the complexity factory

Systems software research is irrelevant (?)

Politics

James Moore: "Second Superpower"

Senator On-line

Sequential Innovation, Patents and Imitation

Enterpreneurship

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Quotes

"... and on the 5475 billionth day Man created god in his image."