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This comprehensive guide assists researchers and practitioners in selecting the optimal venue and track (e.g., DAC, ICCAD, ISCA) for their electronic design automation (EDA) or chip-design project. It clarifies the critical distinction between the archival Research Manuscript track and the industry-facing Engineering Track at DAC, emphasizing the need to frame contributions using measurable Quality of Results (QoR) improvements, novel algorithms, or real-world industrial lessons.

This guide provides comprehensive standards for designing, auditing, and reporting empirical evaluations in database systems research. It emphasizes the principle that evidence must proportionally match the claim, requiring the use of real-world workloads, fair and tuned baselines, thorough measurement of variance and state (warm/cold), and fully reproducible evaluation harnesses. It also outlines the higher bar for 'Experiments & Analysis' papers.

This guide assists in structuring the design of Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) studies, including lab, mesocosm, field sampling, or modeling experiments. It ensures methodological rigor by planning for environmental relevance, necessary controls (e.g., abiotic loss, sorption), proper replication, mass/energy balance, and a comprehensive QA/QC plan from the outset, helping the study withstand expert peer review.

A comprehensive guide for designing and auditing empirical experiments in signal processing, audio, and speech domains. It emphasizes matching standard metrics (e.g., WER, SI-SDR, PSNR) to specific tasks, establishing current strong baselines, and systematically sweeping operating conditions (like SNR or reverberation time) to ensure robust, reliable, and publication-ready results.

This guide provides comprehensive standards for designing, executing, and reporting systems experiments for top-tier academic venues (like ICDE). It emphasizes methodological rigor, including mandatory ablation studies, reporting variance and tail latency (p99), demonstrating scaling trends (curves over points), disclosing cost trade-offs, and ensuring full hardware and software reproducibility to withstand adversarial review.

A comprehensive guide for designing and reporting rigorous experimental results in robotics research. It details the 'evidence ladder' (from simulation to real-world deployment), statistical best practices (e.g., sample size, confidence intervals), ensuring baseline fairness, and quantifying sim-to-real transfer gaps. Essential reading for researchers submitting to top-tier robotics conferences.

A comprehensive methodology guide for designing and auditing empirical studies in software engineering, specifically focused on maintenance, evolution, and change impact. It outlines best practices for ensuring evidence is proportional to the claim, managing data provenance (SHAs, criteria), handling statistical confounds (survivorship, effect sizes), and integrating rigorous LLM evaluation protocols.

A comprehensive guide for authors targeting the IEEE CASE conference. This tool helps assess manuscript fit by focusing on automation science, manufacturing, logistics, and cyber-physical systems. It guides authors on how to re-frame algorithmic designs with practical operational evidence, structure the contribution, and anticipate reviewer expectations for top-tier automation venues.

This tool guides authors on structuring manuscripts for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (TAP). It emphasizes that the core contribution must be in applied electromagnetics, antenna design, or wave propagation theory, requiring a standard evidence chain: sound theory, full-wave simulation, and measured prototype validation. Use it for venue selection and content re-framing.

This skill guides authors on submitting power conversion manuscripts to IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL). It evaluates the manuscript's fit by checking for the required balance between theoretical novelty and rigorous experimental validation, covering topics like converter topologies, control methods, and wide-bandgap devices. Use it when evaluating a paper's suitability for TPEL or re-framing a design from a single build to a generalizable, highly benchmarked contribution.

A specialized tool designed for researchers targeting the International Journal of Plasticity (IJP). It guides authors on whether their manuscript—especially those related to plastic deformation—is a strong fit, focusing on the necessity of developing a rigorous, constitutive model and validating it against experimental data. Use this skill to re-frame observational studies into impactful theoretical contributions.

A comprehensive guide for designing and auditing rigorous experiments for sensing systems and information processing claims. It emphasizes the necessity of measuring performance on real hardware (not simulation), accurately instrumenting ground truth, quantifying energy consumption, latency, and physical footprint, and establishing fair, skeptical baselines. This ensures scientific rigor and reproducibility in research submissions.