Instructions

This assignment should be turned in as a group of two. A list of papers is provided below. Each group should pick one paper for critique. The critique should be 1-2 pages long, and should be a thorough understanding and analysis of the paper, your views about the paper, its strong points, weak points, and overall evaluation of the paper. A review should start with an summary of the paper, followed by a thorough evaluation (similar to a review in a conference). A simple summarization or a copy paste of lines from the abstract/introduction will receive minimal or no credit.
The reviews must be typeset, limited to 2 pages, and clearly indicate the group members and the name of the paper. Handwritten reviews will not be accepted. The reviews are due in class on 11/03.

List of Papers

• (David Jefferson) Virtual Time, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) archive, Volume 7 , Issue 3 (July 1985)
• (Agrawal and El Abbadi) An efficient and fault-tolerant solution for distributed mutual exclusion, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), Volume 9 , Issue 1 (February 1991)