CS621: Performance Evaluation
Student Research Paper Presentations
Odd Semester 2007
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* Each student will select one regular length research paper from
  leading international conferences and journals. The topic of the
  paper should be closely related to Computer Science.

* The selected paper should have a strong performance evaluation
  component, including some mathematical technique.

* You must email Dr. Krishna Sivalingam, the title and PDF file of
  selected paper by Oct 22, 2007, 3pm.

* The student will prepare a 20 minute talk, based on the selected
  paper. The talk will contain:

  a. Introduction to the problem - About 3 minutes.

  b. Concise and Precise Problem Statement - 2 minutes.

  c. Proposed Method/Mechanisms - 3-4 minutes

  d. Performance Analysis Technique - High level overview, without
     getting into too much details - 5-6 minutes.
 
  e. Highlights of Performance Evaluation: Parameters, Metrics, Subset
      of key graphs/tables presented in the paper: 5-6 minutes

* The talk can be a Powerpoint talk. The talk must be emailed to
  Dr. Krishna Sivalingam, two hours prior to the start of class.

* All students are required to attend ALL talks; Each student will
  also fill out a feedback form that will be returned to the speaker.

  Any student who misses even one talk, without giving valid reason,
  will lose all points for their presentation.

  Any student who does not provide a presentation will lose 10 marks
  out of the total 100 for the course.

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TALK SCHEDULE:

Nov 1

* Kiran Kumar
* Deepti Kumar

Nov 2

* G. Anirudh
* Mita Jana

Nov 3 (Saturday): Special Class to cover for lectures of Oct 25,26,Nov.9

* R. Shyam Sundar
* Rebesche G.
* B. Durai

Nov 5

* G. Palakshi
* A. K. Arun

Nov 7

* Nikhil Handigol
* A. Naveen Kumar

Nov 12

* Y. Pavan Kumar
* Mahendran V.

Nov 14

* N. Srinath
* P. Bharat Chandra

Nov 15

* Arun Asok
* S. Gopinath

Nov 16

* Nikhil Ranjan
* S. P. Meenakshi

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