Project Information

Important Dates (Tentative)

Papers Due: Wednesday, November 30, 7:30 pm (Late papers will not be accepted)! This is just like a conference submission. 1 minute late and the system will not accept the submission.
Reviews Due: Monday, December 5, 11 am.
Program Committee Meeting, Thursday, December 8 10:00 am - 12:20 pm

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). Again, this is to emulate a conference submission.
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 idea and the methodlogy used to determine and/or argue whether or not this would be a good avenue for research.

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

NOTE: That I will likely use HotCRP or Easychair to organize the submission and management of papers and reviews so some of the stuff below about how to submit papers and reviews is likely to change.

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 will be emailed). 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
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.

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