Some journals are open to people outside academia but as Mohit said, there is no easy answer which one is the best for you.

I would recommend you to submit to open access journals,

e.g. explore DOAJ http://doaj.org/; Open Access net http://open-access.net/de_en/open_access_in_individual_disciplines/computer_science/#c451, INASP http://www.inasp.info/en/work/journals-online/

There are also open access search engines but I have no idea how efficient they are.

Here is one example: http://www.oajse.com/subjects/computer_science.html

Hi Karimulla,

You can in theory publish as a "freelancer". Which ideas are you talking about ? Were you able to carry experiments in your work or do you have only "theoretical guesses" ? Depending on what you want to achieve you can consider getting in touch with a lab that can provide you the setup to run your experiments, or produce some data on your own by using simulations.

There's no hard and fast rules to getting your research work recognized/published.

I think the best way is to do lot of literature study in your concerned field. You will get to know about people who work in similar/same fields. You could even collaborate with them in due course of time.

P.S.: That has been my experience as an undergrad.

@Mohit: Thanks. :)

@Stephane: Yes, they are "theoretical guesses" right now. I think your pointer is right about doing simulations. I will work on that.

Most of the companies are corporations have a section called R&D, Research and Development. There are a great deal of scientific papers, are which published by the researchers in this sections. You can actually use the R&D section of your corporation in addition to its title as your affiliation.

Furthermore, "Scholar" title might be accepted for most of the proceedings, however the first suggestion suits you more.

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Some journals are open to people outside academia but as Mohit said, there is no easy answer which one is the best for you.

I would recommend you to submit to open access journals,

e.g. explore DOAJ http://doaj.org/; Open Access net http://open-access.net/de_en/open_access_in_individual_disciplines/computer_science/#c451, INASP http://www.inasp.info/en/work/journals-online/

There are also open access search engines but I have no idea how efficient they are.

Here is one example: http://www.oajse.com/subjects/computer_science.html

Hi Karimulla,

Being an academic is not mandatory in order to publish your work in a research journal. If you can perform the experiments needed to assess your ideas, you can even publish your work by yourself. In this scenario, you can take into account some open access journal. However, by my own experience from an industrial environment, I have to say that if you don't have any financial support, it's possible this kind of journals isn't the better option for you. Thus, I recommend you to submit your paper to a conventional journal belonging to your research field. The specific journal will depend on the quality of your work.

On the other hand, if you need a collaboration to perform/finish your investigation, you can find on the internet many references in your field (e.g. this site offers you free access to lots of research papers). You can contact the corresponding groups asking for a collaboration.

Lucky with your work.

In principle there should be no major difference but there still could be some pitfails, see e.g. this discussion: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/3171/how-do-i-go-about-publishing-a-paper-without-a-university-affiliation/

Check resources incl. journals provided by Computer Science societies:

Artificial Intelligence societies: http://www.aiinternational.org/societies.html

Resources by AAAI: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Journals/sponsored-journals.php

CS Societies in the Scholarly Societies Project (note that there are some additional links at the bottom of the page) http://www.scholarly-societies.org/compsci_soc.html

Call for Papers by some publishers, e.g. http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showCategory?categoryId=43983483

Nothing changed, just work on your research interests and ideas. If possible get in touch with a lab or R&D section in a company to simulate or work on your test data.

I agree with Hristina that open access journals might be a good idea to publish your work. However, I would recomend that you have it reviewed by some academic to ensure that the idea is clearly presented. Perhaps, you could even submit to some conferences in your field of interest. There are practitioners who take part in conferecnes and get their work published.

you can publish it as a patent. It is best if you want to make money. If money is your priority, you can submitt it to a journal (free)

In addition to journals, conferences, and patent submissions, I would suggest being active as an open source code developer and industry developer and author - for example, IBM has a nice program to publish and recognize the works of applied researchers and developers and has interest in machine learning, video analytics, Linux applications and systems development, and just general work in these areas - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aboutdw/dwa/about.html

I have written quite a few developer articles myself - http://www.cse.uaa.alaska.edu/~ssiewert/Sam-Siewert-Publications.pdf

Intel, NVIDIA, and many other computer engineering firms have similar developer web pages. For something more formal, but applied, you might submit to the Intel or IBM Research Journals.

The nice thing about Developer articles is that they are interested in early stage prototype, proof-of-concpet and idea stage work as long as you are ok sharing with other developers, but if you want collaboration, I suspect you are.

The web-based publishing is fast and invites feedback and collaboration.

Otherwise, I think if it's collaboration you seek, conference papers are best because you'll meet like minded researchers and developers, much more so than you would publishing in journals and filing patents (in my opinion and based on my experience).

Either way, the more you write, the better - good luck!

That is exactly my field of research and honestly if you want to publish in a top conference like KR, you really must be academic in a sense that you must do in depth and very logically sound research. You must be in the click too because you must be very well aware of what's going on and understand all possible ramifications - not always clear at first sight.

Affiliation is not by any means necessary though.

I have worked with a number of students to get published. The most common mistake that students make is thinking that the research community has the same interest as they do. You really need to make sure that there are active areas of research around your idea. Many times students come to be with a "really great idea", but when it comes time to do a literature review they find out that no one in the research community is interested in the topic.

I have submitted papers in different stages of my life, being an academic or not. I did not feel any difference in the reaction of the referees. What did really count was the content of the paper, how it was written, and the message of the paper. Don't be shy: if you have something to say and share, just do it.