CS854: Experimental Performance Evaluation

Project Information

Important Dates (Tentative)

Proposal Presentations: Tuesday Oct 18 and Oct 25
Papers Due: Tuesday, Nov. 29, before class.
Reviews Due: Monday, Dec 5, 9:30 am.

Paper Requirements

Papers must be submitted in pdf format.
Length: 6 pages maximum including all references, figures and graphs.
This is an absolute maximum. Papers longer than this will not be considered (i.e., receive a grade of 0).
Use the templates at this site for preparing your paper
Paper Requirements
Be sure to see the information also available on that page for more hints about preparing a paper.
From the information about USENIX submissions.
In a good paper, the authors will have:
- attacked a significant problem
- devised an interesting and practical solution
- clearly described what they have and have not implemented
- demonstrated the benefits of their solution
- articulated the advances beyond previous work
- drawn appropriate conclusions

For this project the emphasis will be on the experimental performance evaluation.

See the advice provided for writing a thesis and use the hints provided there when doing and writing up your project.
A Simple Approach to Thesis Writing

IMPORTANT: before submitting in your paper,

Proofread it carefully and correct all of the mistakes that you find.
Then do it again, and again, and again.
Then have a friend read the paper to look for mistakes.

Then repeat from the top until you are pretty certain that the writing is in clear and correct English and that there aren't any typos and ~~smelling~~ spelling mistakes :-)

Project/Paper Submission

This is an absolute and hard deadline. No extensions. Anything recieved late will receive a grade of 0 (no exceptions). This simulates conference submission deadlines.
Create a file with the name XXX.pdf where XXX is your project id (which you can find elsewhere on this web page). That file must contain the project paper you are submitting.
Email file XXX.pdf (where XXX is your project id) to me as an attachment.
The subject line MUST read
Subject: 854 Project Submission
This will allow me to easily save each project submitted so they can later be obtained for reviewing.

Review Submission

There are M projects. You will each be required to review N projects (including your own project).
The form to be used for paper review ratings.
- Use the template above to create a file review-XXX-YY-rating.txt where XXX is the project/paper id and YY is your reviewer id.
- Be sure to follow the instructions carefully (the file will be processed with a program).
- As stated in the instructions, please UNCOMMENT your choise for ratings.
- MUST be plain ASCII text (it will be processed using a program)
- Keep the text lines to a maximum of 70 columns wide by adding linebreaks.
In one single email with
Subject: 854 Reviews
attach all of the XXX-YY-rating.txt files.

Paper/Project Ids

Group               Project Id
Ahmed               ahmed
Aiman               aiman
Alan                alan
Ali                 ali
Michael and Noha    michael-noha
Ray                 ray
Shehroz and Taha    shehroz-taha
Tao                 tao

Last modified: Thu Nov 10 13:21:53 EST 2011