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This skill provides comprehensive guidance for authors submitting Information Retrieval (IR) manuscripts to the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR). It assists in strategically positioning the work by defining scope fit, structuring the evidence (e.g., baselines, error analysis), aligning with the rigorous standards of the European IR community, and guiding the differentiation of the contribution against similar top-tier venues like SIGIR or CIKM. Essential tool for pre-submission refinement.

This guide provides a comprehensive framework for designing rigorous, falsifiable system evaluations for academic research papers. It details best practices across four critical evidence layers: end-to-end performance, mechanism decomposition, operational cost, and boundary testing. Learn how to ensure workload realism, maintain baseline fairness, structure your experiment matrix, and avoid common pitfalls to meet top-tier systems research standards.

This guide provides a rigorous framework for designing and auditing empirical studies in software engineering (SE). It emphasizes that evidence must proportionally match the claims made, covering topics like using real subject systems, establishing fair baselines, calculating SE-standard statistics (effect sizes, CIs), and ensuring thorough provenance, especially for LLM-based work. It helps researchers strengthen their research methodology before publication.

A comprehensive guide for auditing and improving the scientific rigor of hardware architectural evaluations (e.g., HPCA style). It emphasizes establishing a clear 'fidelity contract' defining tools, scope, and configurations. It requires that all performance claims are backed by credible instruments, mandates capturing full machine state provenance, ensuring honest baseline tuning, and reporting results via per-workload distributions rather than single means.

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.

A comprehensive guide for authors responding to IEEE ICDE peer reviews. Learn how to structure both rebuttals to initial concerns and detailed revise-and-resubmit change documents. The guide emphasizes strategic triage, anchoring answers to concrete evidence, addressing systems-level pushback (e.g., baselines, cost), and maintaining feasibility discipline within tight revision deadlines.

A comprehensive guide for authors preparing submissions for top-tier data mining conferences (e.g., ICDM). It emphasizes the critical strategy of preemptively addressing potential weaknesses—such as baselines, variance, scaling, and data leakage—directly within the submitted manuscript, as author rebuttals are often not permitted. Also provides strict guidelines for drafting anonymous, high-impact responses if a rebuttal window is available.

This guide provides comprehensive best practices for designing and auditing empirical experiments for top-tier ML conferences. It covers necessary ablations, robustness checks (e.g., data shift, seeds), fair baselines, and detailed compute reporting to ensure that reported gains are scientifically genuine, reproducible, and address common reviewer skepticism.

This guide provides a comprehensive framework for stress-testing Machine Learning experimental evidence before submission or rebuttal. It covers critical areas such as establishing strong baselines, conducting mechanism-isolating ablations, reporting variance, checking for data leakage, and disclosing compute costs. Use this to ensure your ML claims are scientifically sound, robust, and fair against rigorous academic scrutiny.

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 strategic guide for authors targeting top-tier microarchitecture conferences like MICRO. It covers core topics, required evidence (baselines, workloads, mechanisms), structural expectations, and common pitfalls, ensuring submissions are framed correctly for highly technical audiences.

A comprehensive guide for authors submitting data mining research to elite computer science venues like ICDM. This skill helps define the paper's fit, target the correct scope (algorithms, graph mining, etc.), and structure the manuscript to meet rigorous academic standards. It emphasizes providing sufficient evidence, rigorous baselines, and clear positioning relative to the conference's focus.