You Must Be Joking... Believes Michalis Faloutsos UC Riverside Dpt. of CS Riverside, CA michalis@cs.ucr.edu ABSTRACT The proof is in the pudding1 . Never have truer words been spoken. If only research was a lavish meal that concluded with a pudding. But now, what is a researcher to do? 1. INTRODUCTION It was at a lunch table at Infocom 2008, that the discussion I was overhearing turned, surprisingly, to writing papers. I most often try to switch off at the rst sign of this. These are things that we all have talked about again and again, only somehow every time it is with renewed enthusiasm, like children rediscovering the rules to hide-and-seek. However, the discussion this time took an unexpected turn: How can you ever believe the claims that a paper makes? Good point. Especially, if it is a real system paper, where the author wants to show that something works in practice for realistic scenarios. Debater No. 1: I never trust a paper with simulations. The justi cation was the in nite ways you can ddle with parameters, select the scenarios etc. It was mentioned that there was a paper that showed that
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You must be joking...: believes
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Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 30, 2008
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