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Instructions for submitting reports
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As mentioned previously, we will use EasyChair system for
peer-reviewing the course projects. One of the group members should
submit an anonymized version (strip off ids of team members) of their
report. Please follow these steps to do so:

You should create an account in EasyChair at
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi. Use your andrew email id
if possible. Make sure to enter your EasyChair email id at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15nL0cZiRZloiEs_Hgk77ABc3Ayu0g0iYPVwwGyydFhI/viewform
This information will be used to assign reviews to you.

You may submit an anonymous version of your report in the following steps.
Just submit one report per team please.
1. Access https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coptsf15 and enter your
EasyChair user name and password.
2. Click "New Submission" and fill out author information. Here please
input email address of all your team members which are corresponding to
their *EasyChair accounts*.
3. For Abstract and Keywords, you can input anything; something like
'test' should be fine.
4. In "Uploads", submit anonymous version of your team's report.
5. Click Submit button.

Submissions are due Tues Nov 10, 4pm. You do not need to submit
a hard copy.

After the submissions are done, you will be assigned 3 projects to review.

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Instructions for reviewing
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Accept your email invitation to become PC members at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=copts2015. Change your role in
EasyChair to "PC Member" to write the reviews for the projects
assigned to you. You can change your role by clicking on "COPTS F15"
tab and then selecting Change role option.

Your review should be in the following format, with your answers inlined.

1. Briefly summarize the project.
2. State a few positive aspects of the project.
3. State a few potential drawbacks of the project.
4. Detailed feedback for the authors.

[0-10] Motivation: Is the problem properly motivated?
[0-10] Review of prior work: Have they considered previous approaches
or is there major work they missed?
[0-10] Objectives: Are they clearly stated? Do they make sense?
[0-10] Novelty/utility: Is there a new and/or useful component to the
project?
[0-10] Method description: Is the method clearly described? If not,
please state which paragraphs/statements/equations are unclear. Be as
specific as you can.

5. Add up the total score from the above (out of 50).