CS258: Spring 2008 Final Paper Information

1. It should be 10 pages, double-column.  This is essentially a conference format.  Please stick to the format. Papers that are less than 10 pages are unlikely to be sufficiently detailed.  Papers more than 10 pages will be penalized. This 10 pages should include references as well.  Again, treat this like a conference paper so that you make sure to reference all of the related work. Try to keep your font size >= 10 pt.
   
2. Make sure that your introduction and/or first couple of sections motivate your problem and describe the domain in sufficient detail that a non-specialist could understand. You don't want to spend 50% of the paper on background, but you should make sure that the paper makes sense by itself without requiring the reader to look at related work in detail. Help the reader understand what is important about your domain of research.
3. Many of you have simulation results.  One very important aspect of any paper that has simulation is that it should include a section that (1) describes your simulation environment, including which simulators you combined together, number of lines of code you had to write to make it work, perhaps a block diagram of the simulation system, (2) details of the benchmarks that you utilized or discussion of the synthetic benchmark that you utilized, and (3) a discussion about why you think that your simulation will indicate something important about a real system; how did you validate the various parameters? Why does the lack of accuracy (all simulators trade speed for accuracy in some way) not matter for your environment? Etc.
4. Make sure that you have a related work section that puts your work in context with related work.  Some people believe that such sections should come early in the paper, others think that they should come late in the paper (to avoid interrupting the flow).  I am agnostic on this issue except for the fact that such a section must exist.
5. Deadline: 11:59PM on Monday, 5/19.  Note that you should submit both your talk from Wednesday and your paper by using the "edit" button on the projects page (with your project number).