Advanced Database Management Systems :Validation and Research Assessment
Presentation
- Evaluate the paper according to six questions.
- Prepare a slide for presentation.
- Present your selected topic in class (10-15 mins).
Six questions
- What is the problem?
- Why is it important?
- Is it a hard problem? What is the novelty?
- What is the main contribution?
- What is your approach?
- What is your validation?
What is the problem?
- What is the problem addressed in the paper?
- Is it clearly stated?
- Does the author make the important issues clear?
Why is it important?
- Is the problem significant / relevant?
- Is there any reason to care about the problem (practical applications / real world applications) and paper’s results?
- Is the problem new?
Why is it challenging?
What is the difficulty of solving the problem?
- Computationally complex? (NP completeness?)
- Large search space?
- Hard to solve?
What are the limitations of the related work? What is the novelty?
- Has the problem been solved before?
- Is this a trivial variation on or extension of previous results?
- Is the author aware of related and previous work, both recent and old?
- What are the assumptions and limitations of related work?
- Which limitation is solved in the paper?
- Critique an assumption that you believe is unreasonable.
- What is the impact of removing this unreasonable assumption on the solution proposed by the authors?
. What are the contributions?
- Is the problem the extension of the related work? Which part is extended?
- Is the problem new?
- What are the proposed approaches, algorithms, and ideas?
- Is there any experimental and analytical evaluation?
What is the validation methodology?
- Case study?
- Statistical hypothesis testing?
- Analytical evaluation?
- Computational complexity?
- Theorem and lemmas, proofs?
- Experimental evaluation?
- The strengths and weaknesses of the methodology?
- Why did authors choose this/these methodology?
