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Abstract
Introduction
Related Work
The purpose of the related work section is the most misunderstood by young authors. Therefore, it is important
to pay extra attention in writing this section. Similar
to the introduction, the purpose of the related work is
twofold. First, it gives a list of research works that are
Introduction
Related Work
System Model
Problem Statement
Your solution
Analysis
Simulation
System Model
Experimentation
Conclusions
Problem Statement
Future Work
related to your papernecessary to show what has happened in this field. Secondly, it provides a critique of the
approaches in the literaturenecessary to establish the
contribution and importance of your paper.
Providing a related work section shows that you have
done your homework. In this aspect, it is important
that your related work section be as complete as possible. By complete, it is not meant that you should list all
the existing publications on the subjectthis would be
somewhat hard but mostly meaningless; on the contrary,
you should distinguish and describe all the different approaches to the problem. Ideally, a person who chooses to
focus on the area of your paper should only read your paper to catch up with the background work in the field.
Moreover, a good background work survey will deter the
possibility that your solution has already been proposed
by others. In time, you will realize that the most important works are found only in journals or in proceedings of
major conferences. Although you have probably studied
publications from other sources, you will end up citing
only the important ones.
Critiquing the major approaches of the background
work will enable you to identify the limitations of the
other works and show that your research picks up where
the others left off. This is a great opportunity to demonstrate how your work is different from the rest; for example, show whether you make different assumptions
and hypotheses, or whether your approach to solving the
problem differs.
Solution
Analysis
Conclusions
Bibliography
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long program codes, rigorous and tedious proofs, mathematical background of a key concept which is not well
documented, and detailed instructions of reproducing an
experiment. Generally, an appendix takes anything that
is necessary to be included in the paper, but it is not
completely within the main scope of the paper.
in the figure. The example in the figure should be minimal yet complex enough to demonstrate the non-trivial
aspects of the idea you are trying to illustrate.
Reuse the figures. Draw simple figures on which you
can build upon and demonstrate more concepts as you
progress in your paper. Similarity and reuse of figures
increase the consistency, coherency and comprehensibility
of your presentation. By maintaining the basic style and
layout in the figures, you allow the reader to relate and
understand the new ideas based on the differences and
similarities among the figures in the paper.