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how to write a technical paper [6af2de23]

Tags: papers, writing

1. Introduction

  • Two purposes:

    • Background and motivation
    • Summary and outline

  • Background review should include:

    • trends
    • open problems
    • recent developments
    • also introduce specific terminology

  • Summary:

    • Problem description
    • Description of the solution
    • Arguments about the imacpts
  • Close introduction with paper outline

2. Related Work

  • Gives a list of works that show what has happened in the field
  • Provides a critque to the approaches in the literature, establishes the importance of the paper
  • Show sthat the "homework" has been done
  • Distinguish and describe all the different approaches to the problem

3. System Model

  • Describe all the hypothesis and assumptions of the environment for which the problem will be solved

4. Problem Statement

  • Often merged with the system model
  • State the problem clearly, be exact in stating the question

5. Solution

  • Provide overview of solution
  • Thorough description of the solution and its functionality

6. Analysis

  • Qualitative and quantitative

  • Qualitative shows some properties of the solution

    • Profess of correctness

  • Quantitive shows some performance aspects of the solution

    • Performance analysis, which metrics?

7. Simulation and Experimentation

  • Describe the environment of the simluation and experiments
  • Make sure that the simluation or experiments are statistically stable