Research paper on

DATABASE EVOLUTION

What is the problem?

1) What is the problem addressed in the paper?

2) Is it clearly stated?

3) Does the author make the important issues clear?

Why is it important?

1) Is the problem significant / relevant?

2) Is there any reason to care about the problem (practical applications / real world applications) and papers results?

3) Is the problem new?

Why is it challenging?

What is the difficulty of solving the problem?

Computationally complex? (NP completeness?)

Large search space?

Hard to solve?

What are the limitations of the related work? What is the novelty?

1) Has the problem been solved before?

2) Is this a trivial variation on or extension of previous results?

3) Is the author aware of related and previous work, both recent and old?

4) What are the assumptions and limitations of related work?

5) Which limitation is solved in the paper?

6) Critique an assumption that you believe is unreasonable.

7) What is the impact of removing this unreasonable assumption on the solution proposed by the authors?

What are the contributions?

1) Is the problem the extension of the related work? Which part is extended?

2) Is the problem new?

3) What are the proposed approaches, algorithms, and ideas?

4) Is there any experimental and analytical evaluation?

What is the validation methodology?

1. Case study?

2. Statistical hypothesis testing?

3. Analytical evaluation?

4. Computational complexity?

5. Theorem and lemmas, proofs?