DISCUS Paper Reading Group
The DISCUS Reading Group has been meeting for several years to discuss
both recent and classic research in systems area. Faculty and graduate
students contribute equally to discussions in these weekly
meetings. This activity was initiated by Professor Dwight Makaroff and now is organized by PhD
candidates Yanping Zhao and Wenguang Wang.
Paper Lists and Discussion Records
Current term:
2004-2005 term 1 (spring
2005)
Previous terms
2003-2004 term 1 (spring
2004)
2003-2004 term 1 (fall
2003)
Discussion Guidelines
- Try to answer the following questions when you read the paper:
- What is the problem that the paper tries to solve? Is it a good problem?
- What are the main contributions and/or main shortcomings of the paper?
- How well is this work compared to other papers with similar topics?
- Which methodologies can we borrow from the paper for our research?
- Do NOT repeat the paper content since everyone has read the paper.
- Provide an outside perspective of the paper.
- Limit your introduction of the paper and its related work within
20 minutes, so that people have enough time to discuss.
- Discuss at a high level.
- Be both constructive and critic. It's often easier to be critic
since nothing is perfect. Therefore, being constructive is even more
important. For example, if an idea does not work, how to fix it? If
it does not work here, where could it work?
- Propose some questions (no matter you know the answer or not) to
initiate the discussion. You can even give some plausible statements
for others to attack.
- The discussion leader should take notes on who and what other
people said during the discussion. These notes help the leader to
write the summary.
- When writing the summary, please download this template file and rename it to
a shtml file so that we can get a consistent look and feel.
Thanks David Schwab for writing these stylesheets for our group web site.
Discussion Summary Disclaimer
The summaries of discussion on various papers in this web site do not
represent opinions of the Department of Computer Science, University
of Saskatchewan on these papers, nor do these summaries try to conclude the
paper in any objective or comprehensive way. The objective of these
discussions are help people to understand various aspects of the
topics studied in these papers. Extreme opinions are intentionally
taken to make the discussion active.
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