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

2. What is the main problem?
Abstract
Introduction
30 second (summary)
5 minute (summary)
45 minute summary (not here)
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3. 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?
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4. 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
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5. Background Relevant technique (background) Model used Assumption made
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6. 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
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7. Implementation (not applicable)
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8. 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
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9. Design (Solution)
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10. Discussion, Relate Work
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11. Conclusion Summary of the work Insights/Lessons Future work
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12. Pros and Cons Three strong points One or more weakness Be critical!!!
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