How to Read, Write, Present Papers 怎样阅读，书写，提交论文Nitin H. Vaidya Texas A&M University vaidyacs.tamu.edu 2001 Nitin VaidyaCaveats说明gStatutory warning : Your advisor may not agree 法定警告：您的顾问可能不会同意gOnly my opinions. Random thoughts, often in no particular order 这只是我的意见。随机的想法，往往在没有特定的顺序 gUse advise at your own risk 使用提醒您自担风险gI do not necessarily follow the advise all the time 我不一定在所有的时间遵循以下的建议Caveats 注意事项gThis presentation ignores some of its suggestions 此演示文稿忽略它的一些建议 gCould be a good example of a bad talk 关于一个不好的演讲可能是一个好的例子Omissions 遗漏gReferences at the end of the talk provide many suggestions not included in this talk 在会谈后参考提供的许多建议但没有包括在这次讲座所 提到的 Summary 总结gUse common sense 使用常识gLearn from experience 从经验中学习Reading a Paper 阅读一篇论文Why read papers 怎样阅读论文gSo you know whats happening 你要知道发生了什么gAvoid reinventing the wheel 避免做重复性的工作 idoes happen commonly, 确实发生了 too many wheels already许多重复已经存在gFind interesting research topics寻找有趣的研究课题Why not to read papers 为什么不去读论文gCannot read everything不能读所有的东西gShould not read everything不必读所有的东西 itoo much junk out there太多的垃圾gCan suppress innovation ionce you see solutions using a particular theme, often hard to think differently 可以压制创新 i 一旦你了解使用特定主题的解决方案,往往很难有不同的 想法Read or not to read, that is the question 读还是不读，这是一个问题gRead, of course读，是当然的gKnow whats important知道什么是重要的gKnow what can be ignored without significant loss of information在没有重要信息的损失下知道什么可以被 忽略What to read读什么gMajor conferences iCS journals are a few years behind, but still can be useful 重大会议。政务期刊几年落后，但仍可能是有用的 gTech reports from active research groups ineed to know which groups to look up 从积极的技术研究小组的报告 需要知道哪些群体来查找 Survey / overview papers调查/概况文件 iACM Computing SurveysACM计算调查 iMagazines杂志CACM, IEEE Computer, Spectrummore technical - IEEE Personal Communications, newsletters - ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMOBILE, .Whats in a paper 论文里有什么gAbstract摘要gIntroduction介绍gMotivation动机gProblem description问题的描述gSolution解决g.gPerformance Analysis性能分析gConclusions结论gFuture Work未来的工作How to read a paper?怎样阅读论文Know why you want to read the paper 知道你为什么想要阅读论文gTo know whats going on (e.g., scanning proceedings) ititle, authors, abstract 要知道到底怎么回事(例如,扫描程序)。 i 标题、作者、抽象的gPapers in your broad research area在你能找到的广阔的 领域研究论文 iintroduction, motivation, solution description, summary, conclusions介绍、动机、描述、总结,得出结论 isometimes reading more details useful, but not always有时会阅 读更多的细节,但并不总是有用的gPapers you may want to improve on iread entire paper carefully仔细阅读论文What to note注意事项gAuthors and research group作者和研究小组 iNeed to know where to look for a paper on particular topic 需要知道哪里可以寻找特别题目的论文gTheme of the solution该解决方案的主题 iShould be able to go back to the paper if you need more info 应能返回到文件，如果您需要更多信息gApproach to performance evaluation绩效评估方法gNote any shortcomings注意任何缺点So this paper is in print .因此这论文在出版gBe skeptical被怀疑gIf it sounds too good to be true, it often is 如果他听起来太过于异想天开，因此它通常是着这样的How to Write 如何写How to write a paper怎么写论文gDo unto others as you would have them do unto you 己所不为，勿施于人How to write a paper 怎样写论文When you have truly exceptional results当你真正有无与 伦比的结果 iP = NPgProbably doesnt matter how you write, people will read it anyway可能无论你怎样写，人们都会尽可能阅 读它How to write a papergMost papers are not that exceptional 大多数论文并不罕见gGood writing makes significant difference 良好的写作可以造成很大的差异gBetter to say little clearly, than saying too much unclearly 最好说的言简意赅，不要说的太多又不清楚Readability a must可读性If the paper is not readable, author has not given writing sufficient thought如果论文没有可读性，那么是作者没有给予写作太多的考虑gTwo kinds of referees两种裁判 iIf I cannot understand the paper, it is the writers fault iIf I cannot understand the paper, I cannot reject it 如果我不能理解文章,它是作家的过错 如果我不能理解文章,我无法拒绝gDont take chances. Write the paper well.不要碰运气。写好文章gBadly written papers typically do not get read严重的书面文件通常不让阅读Do not irritate the reader不要刺激读者gDefine notation before use 定义符号后在使用gNo one is impressed anymore by Greek symbols 没有人会对希腊符号留下深刻印象gIf you use much notation, make it easy to find isummarize most notation in one place 如果你使用太多的符号,使它容易被找到 i在一个地方总结大多数符号Do not irritate the reader不要刺激读者gAvoid Using Too Many Acronyms避免使用过多的缩 略语 iAUTMA ?!gYou may know the acronyms well. Do not assume that the reader does (or cares to) 你可能知道缩写。不要假设读者也知道(或关心)。How to write a theory paper如何写一个理论性论 文gUnreadability is not the same as formalismgReader should be able to understand contributions without reading all details阅读者应该在没有阅读所有 细节的情况下理解整个结构gIf some proofs are not too important, relegate them to an appendix如果证据不太重要,那么久把它们作为附件 iProofs are not as worthy as new proof techniques 证据并不如新技术，值得证明 How to write a systems paper如何写系统性的论文gProvide sufficient information to allow people to reproduce your results提供足够的信息,让人们去复制你的结果 ipeople may want to reproduce exciting results人们可能会想 要复制令人兴奋的结果 ido not assume this wont happen to your paper不要认为这不 会发生在你的论文中 ibesides, referees expect the informationgDo not provide wrong information不要提供错误的信息gSometimes hard to provide all detail