Review Report

Reviewer: <Reviewer Name>

Reviewed Paper1 Title: <Paper Title>

Reviewed Paper2 Title: <Paper Title>

Section 1

 State the problem(s) the papers are trying to solve.

Section 2

Summarize the main contributions of the papers: identifying a new problem, proposing a new algorithm, or presenting a new evaluation (analysis).

Describe the main ideas proposed in these two papers. Briefly introduce the used techniques (mathematical or statistical models) and the simulation results if available.

If these two papers are related, compare their proposed methods and results.

Section 3

Critique the two papers from some of the following aspects:

• Are the assumptions reasonable (at the time of the research)?
• Is the problem(s) studied in the papers clearly defined?
• Is the methodology convincing: Do the authors use arguments, analyses, experiments, simulations, or a combination of them, to justify the proposed methods? Is the paper free of methodological errors?
• Can the proposed methods efficiently solve the problems?
• Are the experiments well designed? Are there different experiments that would be more convincing? Are there any other alternatives the authors should have considered?
• Do the claims and conclusions follow from the arguments, analyses or experiments?
• What are the limitations of the proposed methods? What (if any) problems cannot be solved by the proposed methods?
• What lessons should researchers and builders take away from this work?

Section 4

List 3 – 5 questions you would like to discuss with others in class.