Writing of Technical Papers

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Writing of Technical Papers
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Classification

• Original research papers
• Describe novel technical results of some research
  work
• Survey papers
• Review of the existing research work and point
  out the new issues

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Research papers

• A clear statement of the problem the paper is
  addressing
• What has been done before on the problem, and
  what is new
• The proposed solution(s)
• The results achieved
• Could be an algorithm, A system construct, A
  performance evaluation, A theory
• the significance of the results

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Paper Structure

• Title
• Abstract, Keywords (optinal)
• Introduction
• Related Work
• Body of paper
• Related work (if not done at the beginning)
• Conclusions and Future Work
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Appendix (to be cut first if forced to)

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Title

• Careful to use abbreviations
• Not to use novel, performance evaluation
• Use adjectives that describe the distinctive
  features
• Reliable, scalable, energy efficient
• Right on the problem and solution
• A XXX-based method for XXX in XXX systems

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Abstract

• Do not contain references
• Do not use in this paper all the time
• Avoid equations and complex math
• Describe
• The research background
• The topic
• The shortcomings of existing solutions
• The proposed solutions
• The significant results

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Introduction

• Important!
• Decide whether to read this paper
• First impression of reviewer
• Preview of the paper, not copy Abstract
• What is the problem, background knowledge
• What are the solutions, and why not good enough
• What is the proposed solution, not in detail
• What is the contribution of this paper
• Overview/organization of the paper

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Related Work

• Not to just list all the existing works
• Classify them
• Pointing out why they are
• Not good enough in some aspects
• Not good enough in some environments

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Body of the Paper

• The model of the problem
• The proposed solution
• Theoretical analysis
• Discussions

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Simulations

• Environments and settings
• Tools, tunable parameters, performance metrics
• What to compare with
• Simulation results
• Summary

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Conclusions

• Try not to copy Abstract and Introduction
• Could include some deep words
• Future work

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References

• Complete information of each one

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Acknowledgements

• Acknowledge funding sources
• Somebodys help

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Appendix

• detailed protocol descriptions
• proofs with lots of lines
• other low-level but important details