Goals of Review

- Guide the program committee in selection process
- Help authors (to revise paper for acceptance, to understand rejection, 
  to improve further research and future projects)


Guidelines on what to address in a review:

Goals and Tasks. Does the submission state the goals of the research,
including the criteria by which readers should evaluate the results?
Does it specify clearly the tasks under study? How could the authors
improve the paper along these lines?

Significance. How important and original is the work reported? How
difficult is the problem it attacks? What lesson(s) does the paper
offer to the scientific community?

Description. If the paper describes a system or a method, does it
specify the knowledge representation and algorithms in enough detail
to let readers replicate them? If the paper describes an application,
is the application domain adequately described, is the choice of a
particular methodology discussed and the chosen methodology described
in sufficient detail? How might the authors describe their framework
more effectively?  

Claims and Evidence. Do the authors make explicit claims or draw clear
conclusions, and do they present reasonable evidence to support their
position? Do their results reveal the underlying reasons or causes for
phenomena? How might they strengthen their claims, evidence, or
reasoning?

Context and Limits. Does the submission motivate the research, place
it in the context of previous work, and explain its contribution to
the literature? Do the authors note their approach's limitations and
suggest directions for future work? How could they do better on these
dimensions?

Communication. Does the paper communicate well to the reader? Does the
manuscript have a rational organization, with understandable
sentences, necessary transitions, and correct grammar?  Can you
suggest ways to improve its readability?

Other Comments. Do you have any other suggestions or comments for the
authors that would help them improve their paper or their research?


Confidentiality

Please, remember that submissions are confidential: don't distribute
them, don't refer to them, don't use ideas expressed in them - act as
if you didn't know they existed.