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Applying to Ph.D. Programs in Computer Science (Topics Covered: Do I really want a Ph.D.?, What does a Ph.D. entail?) PDF file of the paper: Applying to PhD Programs in Computer Science

  Mor Harchol-Balter   Information / Advice from the School of Computer Science at the Carnegie Mellon University
  Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student   Manuel Blum   Information / Advice from the School of Computer Science at the Carnegie Mellon University
  The Researchers Bible  PDF file of the paper: Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student   Alan Bundy et al.  

Teaching Paper from the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh

  The Researchers Bible (Modified)  PDF file of the paper: The researchers bible   Vance Gledhill  

The Department of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin

Writing and Publishing
  How to Write an Informatics Paper   Alan Bundy   Teaching Paper from the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh
  How to Get a Paper Accepted at OOPSLA   Ralph E. Johnson et al.   Panel at the OOPSLA'93 - Proceedings of the eighth annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications, ACM Press, 1993.
  How to Get Your Paper Accepted at OOPSLA   Alan Snyder   Proceedings of the OOPSLA'91 - Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications
  Writing good Software Engineering Research Papers: A Minitutorial   PDF file of the paper: Writing good software engineering research papers   Mary Shaw   Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering, IEEE Press, 2003.
 
Presenting and Reviewing
  How to give a good research talk  PDF file of the paper: How to give a good research talk   Simon P. Jones et al.  

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 28 Issue 11, 1993

  How to give a good research talk: Slides  PDF slides of the presentation: How to give a good research talk   Simon P. Jones   Talk
  The Task of the Referee  PDF file of the paper: The task of a Referee   Alan Jay Smith  

IEEE Computer Vol. 23, No. 4. pp. 65-71, 1990.

Research Methodologies
  The Role of Experimentation in Software Engineering: Past, Current, and Future     PDF file of the paper: The role of experimentation in software engineering   Victor R. Basili   Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, 1996.
  The Experimental Paradigm in Software Engineering  PDF file of the paper: The experimental paradigm in software engineering   Victor R. Basili   Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Software 706, 1993.
  Experimentation in Software Engineering   PDF file of the paper: Experimentation in software engineering   Victor R. Basili et al.   IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 1986.
  What makes good research in software engineering? PDF file of the paper: What makes good research in software engineering?   Mary Shaw   International Journal of Software Tools for Technology Transfer, 2002
  Experimental Evaluation in Computer Science :A Quantitative Study PDF file of the paper: Experimental Evaluation in Computer Science   Walter F. Tichy et al.   Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier Science Inc., 1995.
  Should computer scientists experiment more?   Walter F. Tichy   IEEE Computer Vol. 31, No. 5. pp. 32-40, 1998.
  Experimental models for validating technology
  Marvin V. Zelkowitz, Dolores R. Wallace   IEEE Computer Vol. 31, No. 5. pp. 23-31, 1998.
  A Theoreticians Guide to the Experimental Analysis of Algorithms PDF file of the paper: A Theoreticians Guide to the Experimental Analysis of Algorithms   David S. Johnson   At&T Labs ­ Research, November 25, 2001 ( This is a DRAFT of a paper that appeared in the Proceedings of the 5th and 6th DIMACS Implementation Challenges, Goldwasser, Johnson, and McGeoch (eds.), American Mathematical Society, 2002 )
  Evaluation und Evaluationsforschung in der Wirtschaftsinformatik, Handbuch für Praxis, Lehre und Forschung   Lutz J. Heinrich
Irene Häntschel
  Oldenbourg Verlag
  Reflective Systems Development   Lars Mathiassen   Dr. Techn. Thesis, Aalborg University, 1998
  A Multi-Perspective Framework for Evaluating Conceptual Models in Organisational Change PDF file of the paper: A Multi-Perspective Framework for Evaluating Conceptional Models in Organisational Change   Frank Wolff, Ulrich Frank   Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005, Regensburg, Germany, May 26-28, 2005
  Multi-Perspective Enterprise Modeling (MEMO) - Conceptual Framework and Modeling Languages PDF file of the paper: Multi-Perspective Enterprise Modeling   Ulrich Frank   Proceedings of the IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-35): Honolulu, 2002.
  Conceptual Modelling as the Core of the Information Systems Discipline - Perspectives and Epistemological Challenges PDF file of the paper: Conceptual Modelling as the Core of the Information Systems Discipline   Ulrich Frank   Proceedings of the Fifth America's Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS99). AIS, Milwaukee 1999, pp. 695-697
  A bibliography of Cognitive Dimensions papers   Alan Blackwell   Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
           
Research Career
  Branding yourself   Richard Snodgrass
Merrie Brucks
  ACM SIGMOD Record, Volume 33, Issue 2, 2004.
  Time Management for New Faculty   Anastassia Ailamaki, Johannes Gehrke   ACM SIGMOD Record, Volume 32, Issue 2, 2003.

 

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