CS695 Topics in Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Spring 2019
Paper review (not to exceed 1500 words)
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* Paper title and authors: 

* Conference/journal details: 
  (name of conference/journal, publication year)

* Specify name, roll number, time spent for review---paper reading, review prep.

1. Problem context and problem description.
   Overall goal/scope of problem. Motivation/challenges/why interesting?
   - what problem is the paper addressing? (note: state problem not solution)
   - what it the motivation? why is problem interesting?
   - what are main contributions?

2. Detailed notes. (your notings, not paras from paper)
   - what are system assumptions/architecture highlights?
   - what is the solution approach? (note: this is not solution, this
     point relates to the generic desription of approach used).
   - describe the solution briefly (main steps).

3. Questions answered by experimental section/evaluation.
   note: this relates to the questions that require experimentation.
         do not at describe experimental settings etc.
   - state questions answered by evaluation.	 
     state assumptions, observations, inferences for each.
   - comment on whether these questions are enough to solve problem
     statement and scope outlined by paper.

4. Negative points (at least three, description required)
   - assumptions/claims not verified.
   - experiments that are missing/could be helpful in understanding technique
   - methodology/techique related
   - ...

5. Possible extensions: 
   (mention details. not same as future work section in paper)
   e.g., 
   - state questions that can be/need to be answered by evaluation
     and why this question is important?
   - explain if assumptions used are too simple? what would happen
     when such assumptions do not hold.
   - ...

6. Positive points (at least two, description required)
   - state what about the methodology followed in the paper that
     you think stands out.
   - "paper found a good solution for server consolidation." ... does not qualify!
     above statement is aim of the paper ... "to find a solution".

     what about the solution approach, overall approach in paper stands out
     as good?