how to write a technical paper

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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

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

System Model

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

Problem Statement

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

Solution

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

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?

Simulation and Experimentation

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