An important part of this course is reading research papers. High-level synthesis is an active research area and many of the most interesting developments are taking place in the research domain. In addition, reading and reviewing research papers is a good skill to practise, especially for those of you that go on to a research career.
Schedule
Paper reviews are due the day before we discuss the paper in class
Paper Review Contents
Include the following in your paper review (in marked sections):
- A sentence or two giving an overview of the paper.
- Describe the 2-3 Major Contributions and/or Novelty of the paper. This should be more than a re-statement of the abstract. What do you think are the important contributions of the paper?
- Provide a critical review, discussing several positive and negative aspects of the paper. Try to provide non-trivial arguments, including some points not brought up by the authors. Do not summarize the paper (that’s what the abstract is for); rather, evaluate the merits of the work done by the authors as presented in the paper. You could comment on things like: (not all in one review):
- importance of the problem being solved
- soundness/correctness of approach
- appropriateness of methodology
- quality, completeness or repeatability of results
- readability
- perspective and/or comparison with previous work
- Identify at least one aspect of the paper that you didn’t understand, or want to better understand.
Your review should be one page or less (normal fonts and margins). Quality is more important than quantity.
Submission Instructions & Late Policy
Send your review as a direct message on Slack. Because we discuss the paper reviews as a class, no late submissions will be accepted. Please make sure to get your paper reviews in on time!