A scholarly conference is not much better than its program comittee

Some general guidelines for guaging the worth of a conference would be something like:

1) Its relevance i.e. How relevant is it to your research area. Some conference just invite everyone and do not have specific goals.
2) It reputation. For instance everyone in the area of communications networks would know the worth of getting a paper published in IEEE Infocom or ACMs sigcomm.
3) A major and often over-looked factor is to have a look at the Technical Programme Committee of the conference. This is very important and the candidate should have a look at the members in the TPC before actually submitting. Once again, two conferences might have almost the same king of TPC in terms of whether whcih institutions have representations in them. However, one conference might have more seasoned researchers than the other even though they belong to the same universities.

A one slide Tutorial!

I had to make a presentation on my work on GP. Just to explain the basic GP, I thought that maybe it'd better to make a small diagram. Clueless for a while on as to what to do, I came up with the picture shown above. I really find it both funny and interesting as an explanation of "How GP Works". I find this picture to be quite comprehensivly describing how it all works out. Not only it eases the explanation of a GP cycle to researchers, it can also evoke some interest in this field among youngsters. I hereby publish this picture as an open source. Evolve it as per your wish. If by any chance you end up making some interesting changes to it then kindly do let me know.

Regards...

Evening!

Hi all, it is almost evening here. And it persists like this for a while because the twilight zone is a bit bigger where I live. This a beautiful picture really and was shot by alina as she was using my camera like a machine gun that day.

About Psyops

Hi all,
So although the blog has been named psyops. It really hasn't got to do with psyops. I just didnt have a good idea on as to how should I name my brain child so I named it quite randomly (conditionally still) as psyops.

The same would goes into it; all random stuff. Just like what u r reading now. Though, I might come up with some cool ideas later on during the process of writing.

More often, I would still like to write general things about life such as attitudes, feelings, morality, emotions, emotional intelligence etc etc. as opposed to the more technical (or academic so to say) stuff such as mathematics, statistics, programming, DSP or the likes. And I think I would come up with simple ideas (thoughts). At the same time I must say that it is the simple things of life that are more important (and charming at the same time too (maybe)).

The Entry!

Salam,
I have been wondering since a long time now that there should be medium through which I could voice my thoughts to people with convenince. I think that I have found the place. And sometimes, as it is the case with the poets, one is looking for someone who could listen. And it is quite funny though that u r even willing to pay a price sometimes but u dont find the appropriate ears.
This seems to be a fine idea i.e. blogging. It seems that I have a whole world to talk to. Irrespective of whether someone is listening or not, it atleast provides me a dumping yard for my quite random, bizarre and sometimes not so healthy or charming thoughts.
So my name, as u already might know, is Adil Raja. Currently I am based somewhere in Europe. But I belong to somewhere in Pakistan.