Paper Reviews and Presentations

Copied from Advanced Computer Networks, Johns Hopkins University.

Paper Reviews and Presentations

• Each student reviews 1 paper/class; submit reviews before the class
• Each student presents 2 papers; sign up here

How to write reviews

• 4 sections in review
  • Summary
  • Paper strengths
  • Paper weaknesses
  • Detailed comments
• Summary (points in sentence or bullet form)
  • 1-2 points: What problem?
  • 1-2 points: Core novel ideas or technical contributions
  • 3-5 points: Summarize approach, mechanisms, findings
• Strengths/Weaknesses: 2-4 points each
• Detailed comments
  • Longer exposition. Be constructive. Imagine conversation w/ authors: What would you tell them?
  • May include
    • Problem: What is it? Is it new? Is it real? Is it important?
    • Solution: What is the technique(s)? Is it novel? How is it compared to past solutions? What is the intuition(s)?
    • Implementation/evaluation: Does it have a real system prototype? Is the evaluation dataset(s) representative? Does the evaluation cover all aspects?
    • Looking forward: Can you come up with a new/different/better solution? Can you find a new/related problem to solve?