Academic Conference

An Academic Conference is a conference where researchers present research results that apply to some academic discipline.

• AKA: Scholarly Conference, Scientific Conference, Research Conference.
• Context:
  • It must includes one or more Research Presentations.
  • It can be organized by a Learned Society.
  • It can have a Peer Review Process for accepting Research Presentations.
  • It can have a Conference Proceeding.
  • It can include one or more Research Papers.
• Example(s):
  • Artificial Intelligence Conferences, such as: AAAI Conference.
  • Machine Learning Research Conferences, such as: ICML Conference, NIPS Conference, COLT Conference, ...
  • Data Mining Research Conferences, such as: SIGKDD Conference, ICDM Conference, PAKDD Conference, ...
  • WWW Conference, ISWC Conference.
  • K-CAP Conference, EKAW Conference.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • “Interop Conference”, an Industry Conference.
• See: Academic Workshop.

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References

2009

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_conference
  • An academic conference is a conference for researchers (not always academics) to present and discuss their work. Together with academic or scientific journals, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between researchers.

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