1 SCIENCE PASSION TECHNOLOGY Introduction to Scientific Writing 01 Structure of Scientific Papers Matthias Boehm Graz University of Technology, Austria Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science Technology, WS 2020/21 Agenda  Data Management Group  Course Organization, Outline, and Projects  Structure of Scientific Papers  Paper Project Proposals 4 706.015 Introduction to Scientific Writing – Integration and Large-Scale Analysis (DIA, WS) Master Bachelor Data management from user/application perspective Distributed Data Management ML system internals DB system internals + prog

a function exceeds about 40 lines, think about whether it can be broken up without harming the structure of the program. Even if your long function works perfectly now, someone modifying it in a few months public members. Exceptions We do not use C++ exceptions. • Exceptions allow higher levels of an application to decide how to handle “can’t happen” failures in deeply nested functions, without the obscuring Code should be 64-bit and 32-bit friendly. Bear in mind problems of printing, comparisons, and structure alignment. • printf() specifiers for some types are not cleanly portable between 32-bit and 64-bit

paper/thesis is about  Read abstract, and optionally introduction scan paper (sections/subsections, structure, figures)  Understanding  Goal: understand how the presented approach accomplishes the paper’s University of Technology, WS 2021/22 Process of Reading – Skimming/Understanding  Abstract and Structure  #1 Partial Reading (mostly skimming)  Read into each paragraph until you get what it’s about self-explanatory figures (close to text), and structure  Avoid unnecessary formalism  as simple as possible  Shortening the text in favor of structure improves readability  Ex. Compressed Linear Algebra

you can’t start at 0 [J. Sommer, M. Boehm, A. V. Evfimievski, B. Reinwald, P. J. Haas: MNC: Structure- Exploiting Sparsity Estimation for Matrix Expressions. SIGMOD 2019] 15 706.015 Introduction harvard.edu/ #Guidelines] [J. Sommer, M. Boehm, A. V. Evfimievski, B. Reinwald, P. J. Haas: MNC: Structure- Exploiting Sparsity Estimation for Matrix Expressions. SIGMOD 2019] 27 706.015 Introduction (all students) Paper Project Selection Alternative: LV combined with bachelor thesis See 01 Structure of Scientific Papers for project list 31 706.015 Introduction to Scientific Writing – 03 Experiments

properly. If that should happen, those programs are broken and they must be fixed. 3 Source file structure A source file consists of, in order: 1. License or copyright information, if present 2. Package discouraged). 4. As required by other sections of this document (such as Section 3, Source file structure, and Section 3.3, Import statements). Multiple consecutive blank lines are permitted, but never

order being most generic to least generic: • standard library imports • third-party imports • application-specific imports Within each grouping, imports should be sorted lexicographically, ignoring case