Literature retrieval tool | Computer English literature retrieval database DBLP

1. What is DBLP?

Definition: DBLP (DataBase systems and Logic Programming) is an integrated database system of computer English literature with the author as the core of the research results in the computer field.

Introduction: DBLP lists the author's scientific research results by year. Including published papers in international journals and conferences. DBLP does not provide collection and retrieval functions for Chinese literature, and domestic authoritative journals and papers at important conferences lack a similar integrated retrieval system. The journals and conference papers collected by DBLP are of high quality, and the literature of DBLP is updated very quickly, which well reflects the frontier direction of foreign academic research.

Features: DBLP has a good reputation in academia, bringing great convenience to people, and its authority has also been highly recognized by the research community. However, DBLP does not provide collection and retrieval functions for Chinese literature, and domestic authoritative journals and papers at important conferences lack a similar integrated retrieval system. The DBLP project is developed and maintained by Michael Ley of the University of Trier in Germany. It provides search services for scientific literature in the computer field, but only stores relevant metadata of these literatures, such as title, author, publication date, etc. As of July 2009 there are more than 1,200,000 documents. Unlike the generally popular situation, DBLP does not use a database but uses XML to store metadata.

Address: https://dblp.org/

Interface: The interface of DBLP official website is shown in the figure below:

2. Three methods of DBLP literature retrieval

This article will introduce three methods of literature search, namely:

• Search by conference/journal name
• search by author name
• Search by thesis title

2.1. Retrieve papers from specified conferences/journals

This chapter will take the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence as an example to introduce how to search for papers in specified conferences/journals.

1) First, enter the name of the conference/journal in the search bar, such as: AAAI. After entering the result, in Venue search results , matching results will appear, as shown in the figure below.

Since the first option AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence(AAAI)is the conference we searched for, click the link to jump to the AAAI conference interface, as shown in the figure below.

It should be noted here that in addition to formal meetings, general international academic conferences will also have some workshops (seminars) on a certain subfield, such as AAAI's seminar on artificial intelligence safety (Proceedings of the Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety 2022 , SafeAI 2022). This kind of seminar is somewhat similar to a round table discussion, which is an informal meeting, and the quality of papers is lower than that of formal meetings. The content of the Workshop is shown in the blue mark in the figure below.

If we need to read the latest AAAI conference papers (that is, papers admitted to the 2022 AAAI conference), click at the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2022, Thirty-Fourth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, IAAI 2022, The Twelveth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2022 Virtual Event, February 22 - March 1, 2022. AAAI Press 2022, ISBN 978-1-57735-876-3 [contents]end of the conference information [contents]to jump to the relevant link, as shown in the figure below.

Some conferences will classify accepted papers. Taking the AAAI conference as an example, the common classifications in recent years are: 计算机视觉（Computer Vision）, 数据挖掘和知识管理（Data Mining and Knowledge Management）, 智能机器人（Intelligent Robotics）, 机器学习（Machine Learning）and so on. Readers can roughly know the category of the paper according to the classification.

The author, title, page number of the collection of papers, and the link to the original paper are systematically recorded in DBLP, as shown in the figure below. If you want to view the original text, you can click electronic [email protected]the link to jump to the original text of AAAI to read it.

2.2. Retrieve the papers of the specified author

This chapter will take a professor in Southern California Milind Tambeas an example to introduce how to search for papers with designated authors.

Enter the author's name in the search bar, eg: Milind Tambe. After entering the results, in Author search results , matching results will appear, as shown in the figure below.

When retrieving papers by a specified author, focus on several filter attributes in the right column:

• refine by author: Filter by co-authors.
  This function allows you to check who the authors often cooperate with and how many times they have collaborated.

• refine by venue: filter by conference/journal information.
  This function can check the conference/journal papers frequently published by the author, such as AAMAS, AAAI, etc.

• refine by type: Filter by publication type.
  This feature allows you to see what types of articles the author often publishes, Conference and Workshop Papersbe it conference and seminar papers, Journal Articlesor journal papers.

• refine by access: filter based on visibility.
  This function can check how many papers of the author are public and how many are not public.

• refine by year: filter by year of publication.
  This function allows you to check the years in which the author's papers were published, and how many of each.

2.3. Retrieve papers on a specified topic

Taking Professor Milind Tambe's paper "Networked Restless Multi-Armed Bandits for Mobile Interventions" published in AAMAS in 2022 as an example, this paper introduces how to search for papers on a specified topic.

Enter the thesis title in the search bar, such as: Networked Restless Multi-Armed Bandits for Mobile Interventions. After entering the results, in the Publication search results , matching results will appear, as shown in the figure below.

As can be seen from the figure, the paper "Networked Restless Multi-Armed Bandits for Mobile Interventions" was first published in arkiv (CoRR means arkiv), and was finally accepted by the Conference on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-2022).

3.Tips: The meaning of each color module in DBLP

• Books and Theses (books and dissertations)
• Journal Articles (Journal Papers) [most commonly used]
• Conference and Workshop Papers (conference and workshop papers) [most commonly used]
• Parts in Books or Collections (parts in books or collections)
• Editorship (edited revision)
• Reference Works
• Data and Artifacts (data and artifacts)
• Informal and Other Publications (informal and other publications, arkiv preprints are common) [most commonly used]