The other morning, Google Scholar shot me another email, indicating new citations to my papers. It’s often interesting to see how other people build on what I’ve done in the past, and so it’s become somewhat of a tradition that…
This other day, when trying to mark-up a final proof of a paper that my colleagues and I had accepted to an Elsevier journal, I had a flash-back to the 1990’s – you know, the good old days when not…
As many (most, I suspect?) scientists, I have Google Scholar set up to sent me email-alerts. For example, I get an email when publications matching certain keywords are released, or when whatever fuzzy (or rather, “dizzy”, since it sometimes, seems…
Early in 2017, I got an email with the subject: Invitation for the Post of Editorial Board Membership In Academia, being on the editorial board for a journal is a Real Big Deal – second, of course, to being Editor-in-Chief…
Ecole Polytechnique is hiring full-time, permanent, faculty members in computer science (and related fields, including networking). We’re specifically looking for junior, but tenure-track, applicants – in France that position is called “Maitre de Conferences”, and at Ecole Polytechnique it entails…
As is, I suppose, an all too common occurence for an academic, I recently received an email, asking me to review a paper. This time for a journal called “Journal of Computer and Communications“, published by an outfit called SCIRP.…
In last month’s “Bad Science” blog posting called “Bad Science: Show me a protocol, and I will show a scenario where mine is better …“, I commented on the paper “Performance Study of AODV with Variation in Simulation Time and Network Size“,…
Last months “Bad Science” blog posting, called “Bad Science: Incessant Protocol Comparisons“, triggered some off-line discussions, with various students, colleagues and peers, on bad science in general: on how many papers are lacking rigor in statistical treatment of results, for example,…
One very, very, very (,very, very, very, …) common type of papers in my scientific domain is “protocol comparisons”. Such papers are very, very, very often of the form: Pick a domain (e.g., sensor networking, MANET, multicast…) and a topic (e.g.,…