Introduction
Not all research projects end up with positive results. Sometimes ideas that sound enticing at first run into unexpected complexity, high overheads, or turn out simply infeasible. Such projects often end up in a proverbial researcher's drawer, and the community as a whole is not aware of dead-end or hard-to-advance research directions. NOPE is a venue that encourages publishing such results in all their "badness".
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Submission Topics
Our goal is to find papers which the community can learn from and might otherwise have trouble finding a suitable venue, so we take a broad view of what constitutes a "negative" result. A good NOPE submission might entail:
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Thorough evaluations of failed projects which uncover and characterize the root cause.
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Papers which describe both positive and negative results, with an emphasis on the underlying reasons behind why some succeeded and other failed.
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Cradle-to-grave examination of completed projects, specifically to dissect dead-ends and unworkable solutions encountered along the way.
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Design space explorations or comprehensive experiments which suggest a particular technique is unlikely to work under a realistic set of assumptions.
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Research which uncovers fundamental limitations in scalability, performance, accuracy, or other quantifiable metrics.
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Any research which serves to share the lessons of failure to the broader community, such that we can avoid repeating them in the future.
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Important Date
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Oct 14
2017
Conference Date
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Sep 27 2017
Draft paper submission deadline
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Oct 14 2017
Registration deadline
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