Help SoCS and ICAPS! Update your Google Scholar Profile!
Sven Koenig
The International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS) is working to improve its ranking in the CORE list of conferences (https://www.core.edu.au/conference-portal).
The current CORE rank for SoCS is "B", which indicates a "good to very good conference, and well regarded in a discipline area". We believe, and the community has previously argued (https://tinyurl.com/5a23t9j9), that SoCS should be ranked "A", which indicates an "excellent conference, and highly respected in a discipline area".
Meanwhile, ICAPS will be re-evaluated by CORE and we are working to make sure it continues to retain its A* ranking, which indicates “flagship conference, a leading venue in a discipline area”.
You can help these efforts by adding the "Heuristic Search" and/or “Automated Planning” label to your Google Scholar profile. Currently, some of us use the labels "Planning" and/or "Artificial intelligence", which makes it harder to recognize the community on Google Scholar. Agreeing on common labels helps increase the visibility of our core topics and makes it easier to identify who is publishing in this area.
Publishing in well ranked conferences is important for researchers in our community. First, it is important for hiring and promotion and other similar situations that require a track record of quality publications. Second, it is important for keeping conferences healthy and strong, as attendance at a well ranked conference is easier to budget for and easier to justify, especially for young researchers and students.
Please take a few minutes to make this change. You’ll be helping SoCS and ICAPS now and the entire community in the future (as the CORE rankings are periodically re-evaluated).
To update your labels on Google Scholar:
Go to https://scholar.google.com/ and log in
Click on “My Profile”
Click on the pencil icon next to your name
Update your “Areas of Interest” and click save
Thank you for considering this request. We hope you can help out!
Daniel Harabor, Hang Ma, Ariel Felner, Sven Koenig and Roni Stern (SoCS working group for CORE 2023)
Gabi Röger, Erez Karpas and J. Benton (ICAPS working group for CORE 2023)
-- Sven Koenig Computer Science Department University of Southern California idm-lab.org