Quality papers

1. European Modelling Symposium 2009EMS2009UKSim 3rd European Symposium onComputer Modelling and Simulation 25 – 27 November, Athens, GreeceGuidelines for ReviewersDavid Al-DabassSeptember 2009.

2. Quality papers • Your prime objective is to ensure only ‘good quality’ papers find their way to the conference proceedings. • As a practicing academician you are familiar with what constitutes ‘quality’ in an academic context, but here are some guidelines which you may find helpful.

3. EMS2009: Paper Structure • Paper Structure: it needs to follow the conventional steps of the ‘scientific method’, i.e. - Abstract • - Introduction • -Literature survey to outline limitations/weaknesses of current systems/techniques/methods • - The proposed new ideas • - Tools to test the quality of the proposed ideas, e.g. simulation, software, hardware, or combinations • - Results and discussions of experimentation with the tools to validate the new ideas • - Conclusions and suggestions for future work • - References

4. EMS2009 : Presentation and Language • Quality of Presentation and Language: look for - well argued and discussed ideas - quality of displaying the results, e.g. tables, graphs, charts, and references to them in the text. - Does the title read well and reflect the content accurately?

5. EMS2009: Novelty Novelty: • is the argument for originality and novelty convincing? • Does the author build on the findings in the literature survey as platform for the proposals? • How well Do the results validate the proposed ideas?

6. EMS2009 : References • Are the References in quality journals and/or conferences? • Are they cited within the text appropriately?

7. EMS2009: Plagiarism • Plagiarism: EDAS gives a ‘similarity’ score for the paper • Read the text for similarity and decide if there is a case for plagiarism • If there is, say so in the review and • Ask the author to explain.

8. Thank you!!