D-Term 2006 CS 4513 Prof. D. Finkel
BS/MS
Assignment
To obtain BS / MS credit for this course, you
must have filled out a BS / MS credit form (available in the CS Department
Office). You must obtain a grade of B in
the course, and complete the following assignment.
The assignment is to write a five to ten page
page on a topic related to the material of this course. Your paper will be based on three to five papers
published in the research literature, all on the same topic. You will need to locate and select the papers
to use. You should look in journals and
conference proceedings such as:
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
Communications of the ACM
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing
Systems
Proceedings of ACM Conferences
Proceedings of IEEE Conferences
Proceeding of Usenix
Conferences
Please note that
popular press magazines, such as Byte,
PC World, PC Magazine, etc. are not
acceptable sources of articles for this assignment.
Step 1:
Select the three to five articles to use. Write a one-page proposal, listing the
articles you will you and describing what the common topic of the papers is,
and its relation to the material of the course.
The proposal must be turned in to me, by email, by Friday, April
14. I would be happy to talk to you as you
choose a topic, locate papers, and prepare the proposal
Step 2: Write the paper. Be sure to provide complete bibliographic
citations to your papers. The paper
should summarize the contents and main findings of the papers. You should then compare the results of the
papers – if their results disagree with each other, give an opinion about which
is correct (or perhaps, in what circumstances one or the other is
correct). Alternatively, you could
express and justify your opinion about which paper uses a more valuable
approach, or provides more useful conclusions.
Your paper must go beyond just
summarizing the contents of the papers you have read. Again, I will be happy to discuss your paper
with you as you prepare it.
The paper is due to me, via email, by the last
day of D-Term, May 2.