Note: All available papers are linked to the programs for each year.
II. Advanced search of TPRC archives at ArXiv.org
Note: At present, only papers for the 2001 conference have been stored
in this archive.
III. Hints for more advanced searches
Boolean Operators
AND, NOT, OR (N.B. NOT means 'AND NOT')
Metacharacters
The bad news: In general, punctation and other non-alphanumeric characters are not indexed and cannot currently be searched for. Currently some interesting characters like (,), and = are not searchable. Regrettably, this means that one cannot search for SU(3) or d=3 at this time. The good news: The characters ^,_,{,},+, and - are indexed. For example, searching for K^+ or nu_e will work - be aware that authors aren't always consistent in how super- and subscripts are presented.
Non-indexed characters are stripped out from the search query.
Single letter words and single digit numbers
These are not indexed, so they cannot be searched on. Numbers are indexed though. SN1987A is searchable.
Soundex
SOUNDEX works in author field only
SOUNDEX Ruckl will match Ruckl, Rueckl, and Rückl (as well as others)
Stemming
Most fields stem words automatically (searching for superconductors will match superconducting)
Wild card truncation
Wild card '*' can only be used at the end of a term (but see author examples below).
Grouping
Grouping can be done with parentheses
Binary Booleans are not associative - parentheses are mandatory if a field has multiple Booleans
First two fields are grouped together in form before third field is added in
Exact phrases
Use double quotes (") - Warning: can be very slow (try AND instead)
Hyphenated terms
Hyphens have been removed from most phrases (domain-wall becomes domain wall). This is because use of hyphens is often inconsistent.
Hyphens have not been removed from e-print archive names, nor have then been
removed when it would result in a single letter being left over: c-theorem remains hypenated and is searchable.
Try searching for domain AND wall or for "domain wall". The latter is more accurate, but can be much slower than the former.
Example author searches
T Bhattacharya
T Bhattacharya NOT (A A Khan OR Rajan Gupta)
SOUNDEX Bhatacharya (initials and SOUNDEX can't be used together)
'Bhatta*' is OK, but 'T Bhatta*' won't work (initials and '*' can't be used together)
Example journal references
Phys AND Rev
Year searches
'Past Year' and 'All Years' override individual years
Subject Classes
Covers Subj-class, ACM-class, and MSC-class
Multi-archive searches
Search time is linear in the number of archives. Before embarking on
wide-range multi-archive full abstract searches, imagine that all this is
running on a little 386 pc
(with an '030 mac as co-processor) since that's all we can afford.
