COMP 3000 Essay 2 2010

Directions

You are to write a document that explains the key ideas of your assigned paper from OSDI 2010. Your articles should have the following format:

Paper: the paper's title, authors, and their affiliations. Include a link to the paper and any particularly helpful supplementary information.
Background Concepts: Explain briefly the background concepts and ideas that your fellow classmates will need to know first in order to understand your assigned paper.
Research problem: What is the research problem being addressed by the paper? How does this problem relate to past related work?
Contribution: What are the research contribution(s) of this work? Specifically, what are the key research results, and what do they mean? (What was implemented? Why is it any better than what came before?)
Critique: What is good and not-so-good about this paper? You may discuss both the style and content; be sure to ground your discussion with specific references. Simple assertions that something is good or bad is not enough - you must explain why.
References: You will almost certainly have to refer to other resources; please cite these resources in the style of citation of the papers assigned (inlined numbered references). Place your bibliographic entries in this section.

Your essay will be graded based upon three criteria:

How well is your article written, in terms of grammar, spelling and organization?
Are the technical details and conclusions of your article correct?
Are appropriate sources cited when needed?
Does your article explain the assigned research paper in a way that is easily understandable to other students taking COMP 3000?

Remember that your presentation of the material should be original. Citations are to acknowledge sources for ideas and specific past work. Do not use words or figures from any other source, even with citation! While such use, with appropriate citation, may not be plagarism, it won't help the quality of your work - thus, you should avoid it.

Group assignments are here. Each group should send me an email confirming your members by Monday, November 15th. (At that point I may need to rebalance groups.)

Your articles are due on December 2nd (a one week extension). Good luck!

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