Jul 20, 2023 · In my experience, how to organize the sections for a computer science paper depends a lot on the conference or journal that you're sending it to. With "computer science native" …

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In the computer science/software engineering and human-computer interaction, the first author is generally the person who both had the "main idea" and led the effort to ensure that the efforts to …

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Here's a bit of meta-advice on this point. One major way I've learned how to improve introductions is by thinking hard about negative referee reports. In my experience, when a paper gets a referee report …