conference-research

name	conference-research
description	Find papers from specific ECE/CS venues. Activate when you need to discover papers accepted at specific conferences/journals, analyze venue acceptance patterns, or look up CFP requirements.
always	false

Conference Research Protocol

When researching papers from specific academic venues, academic_search with venue names WILL FAIL — conference names don't appear in arXiv paper titles. Use source-specific strategies below.

Source Priority (try in order)

1. ECE/CS Power Systems Venues: IEEE PES / IREP / PSCC / PowerTech

openalex_search: {topic} year_from=2020 sort_by=citations
academic_search: {topic} source=arxiv            # for preprints only
web_search: site:ieeexplore.ieee.org {topic} {conference} {year}

2. Control Theory Venues: CDC / ACC / IFAC

openalex_search: {topic} sort_by=citations
web_search: site:ieeexplore.ieee.org {topic} CDC {year}

3. ML/AI Venues: NeurIPS / ICLR / ICML

OpenReview is authoritative for all three:

web_search: site:openreview.net {topic keywords} NeurIPS 2024
web_search: site:openreview.net {topic keywords} ICLR 2025
web_search: site:openreview.net {topic keywords} ICML 2024

Do NOT quote the topic phrase; use bare keywords.

4. NLP Venues: ACL / EMNLP / NAACL

ACL Anthology is authoritative:

web_search: site:aclanthology.org "{topic}" {year}

Venue codes: acl-long, acl-short, emnlp-main, naacl-main

5. Systems Venues: OSDI / SOSP / EuroSys / MLSys

web_search: site:dblp.org {venue-abbrev} {year} {topic keywords}

6. Cross-Venue Search

openalex_search: {topic} sort_by=citations        # 250M+ works, all domains
semantic_scholar: {topic}                          # citation graphs

Critical Anti-Patterns (NEVER do these)

• arXiv_search with venue names — ti:"CDC" or ti:"NeurIPS" will return garbage. Conference names are not in arXiv paper titles.
• Using arXiv alone for venue-specific papers — arXiv has preprints, not accepted papers.
• Conflating Findings/Workshop with Main Conference — acl-findings is not acl-long.
• Asserting venue preferences without evidence — require at least 3 papers as evidence before stating a pattern.

Analysis Workflow (after collecting papers)

1. Note each paper's track (Main / Workshop / Findings) — do not conflate them
2. Group papers by methodological approach, not just topic keyword
3. Extract style signals from abstracts (theoretical vs empirical, simulation vs hardware)
4. Require minimum 3 papers as evidence before stating a venue preference pattern
5. Cross-validate CFP scope text against the collected paper sample

Finding CFP and Acceptance Criteria

web_search: "{Conference} {year} call for papers"
web_search: "{Conference} {year} submission guidelines review criteria"
web_search: "{Conference} {year} acceptance rate topics scope"