Paper Outline and a template

Outline
•Problem X is important
•Previous works A, B, and C have been done
•A, B, and C have their weakness
•Your work D
•(Theoretic analysis of D)
•Comparison against A, B, and C
•Why D is better
•Strength and weakness of D
•Future works on D

A template
•Abstract
•Introduction
•Review of previous works
•Your work
•(Theoretic analysis)
•Experiments and comparisons
•(Related works / Discussions)
•Conclusions
•Acknowledgements
•Appendix 

Abstract
Purpose: Summarize your contributions
Style:
•What is the problem
•What is your work
•Features of your work
•Advantages of your work
•Experimental results

Introduction
Purpose: Background and organization of the paper
Style:
•Problem X is important
•A, B, and C have been done
•A, B, and C have their weakness
•Our work D
•Features and advantages of D
•Experimental results of D
•Organization of the paper

Previous works  
 
 
Purpose: Why your work, the differences  
 
Style:  
 
•Categorization of previous works  
 
•One or two sentences for a work  
 
•Strength  
 
•Weakness  
Your work  
 
Purpose: Introduce your work  
 
Style:  
 
•Motivation  
 
•Definition, notation  
 
•Algorithm  
 
•Pseudo-code  
 
•Diagram  
 
•Explanations  
Experiments  
 
 
Purpose: How your idea works  
 
Style:  
 
•Experimental design  
 
Be sure that other researchers can repeat your  
experiments according to your descriptions  
 
•Comparisons  
 
•Discussions  
 
What is revealed by the experiments?  
 
Conclusions  
 
Purpose: Summary and future works  
 
Style:  
 
•Summary  
 
•Future works  
 
 
 
 
Acknowledgements  
 
Reference  
 
 
 
Appendix