How to Read a Paper (Practice: CCS’14) Chunyi Peng Fall 2015

What is the main problem? Abstract Introduction 30 second (summary) 5 minute (summary) 45 minute summary (not here) CSE5469 (Peng)

What in your mind before reading? Does it solve an important problem? What is the novelty? Formulating a new problem? Proposing a new solution? Presenting a new evaluation? The work is not incremental? Relevance of the work? Based on a hot problem? Is it the first one in the area? CSE5469 (Peng)

Introduction Problem statement Importance of the problem Challenge of the problem Current solution New ideas and techniques Performance summary Main contributions Structure of the paper CSE5469 (Peng)

Background Relevant technique (background) Model used Assumption made CSE5469 (Peng)

Design?  Finding An overview of findings For each component What are the issues to address? How the authors prove them? What are the insights (pros)? Novelty, novelty, novelty CSE5469 (Peng)

Implementation (not applicable) CSE5469 (Peng)

Evaluation section See empirical validation in the finding section Quantitatively show how good the solution is or how the findings work Describe the test scenarios Describe the analytical results Explain figures and tables Share the insights In the end, a brief summary CSE5469 (Peng)

Design (Solution) CSE5469 (Peng)

Discussion, Relate Work CSE5469 (Peng)

Conclusion Summary of the work Insights/Lessons Future work CSE5469 (Peng)

Pros and Cons Three strong points One or more weakness Be critical!!! CSE5469 (Peng)