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 – and Overview Matthias Boehm, Graz University of Technology, WS 2020/21 Outline Lectures  01 Structure of Scientific Papers [Oct 28, 6.15pm, optional]  02 Scientific Reading and Writing [Nov 04, 6pm

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 Scientific Reading and Writing Matthias Boehm, Graz University of Technology, WS 2021/22 Finding Relevant Work  Motivation  Some research areas might be very large (e.g., index structures, compression)  How of top-tier conferences/journals and find latest work  These papers’ related work should provide a good categorization and discussion of related work  recursive lookup  By Author  Sometimes there

Consistency also allows for automation: tools that format your code or adjust your #includes only work properly when your code is consistent with the ex- pectations of the tooling. In many cases, rules global namespace: name collisions across a codebase of hun- dreds of millions of lines are difficult to work with and hard to avoid if everyone puts things into the global namespace. Concede to optimization extensively. This section lists the main dos and don’ts you should follow when writing a class. Doing Work in Constructors Avoid virtual method calls in constructors, and avoid initialization that can fail

experiments  observations and ideas for improvements  Don’t be afraid of throw away prototypes that don’t work  Good Research Fires Itself  Initial experiments give directions for further improvements  Problem-oriented Proper planning helps to keep you from “getting lost”  Repeatable experiments simplify your own work  There is no single way how to do it right  There are many ways how to do it wrong  Basic Planning 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

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

class OuterClass: 23 class InnerClass: pass Inheriting from object is needed to make properties work properly, and it will protect your code from one particular potential incompatibility with Python