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is it interesting for the venue?

is it correct?

is it improving the state-of-the-art?

[TITLE]

0. Pass

Title

✓ abstract,
✓ conclusions,
✓ scan references.

1. Pass

Abstract

What is it?

Why should I buy it?

What makes it worth?

Any proof?

How did you test it?

What are the results?

How does it work?

How did you did it?

Introduction

Sections and sub-sections headings

  1. Designing for understandability
  2. The Raft consensus algorithm
    • 5.1 Raft basics
    • 5.2 Leader election
    • 5.3 Log replication
    • 5.4 Safety
      • 5.4.1 Election restriction
      • 5.4.2 Committing entries from previous terms
      • 5.4.3 Safety argument
    • 5.5 Follower and candidate crashes
    • 5.6 Timing and availability
  3. Cluster membership changes

Glance of theoretical foundations

Conclusions

Known references, authors

Category

What type of paper is this? A measure- ment paper? An analysis of an existing system? A description of a research prototype?

Which other papers is it related to? context

What are the assumptions?

Do the assumptions appear to be valid? Correctness

What are the paper’s contributions?

Clarity

Is the paper clear?

Well written? easy to follow

2. Pass

Are the mathematical formulas correct? Does the diagrams make sense? Are the axis graphs properly labeled? Relevant references

Based on: How to Read a Paper by S. Keshav, June 26, 2012

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