European Modelling Symposium 2009

EMS2009UKSim 3rd European Symposium on

Computer Modelling and Simulation 

25 – 27 November, Athens, Greece

Guidelines for Reviewers

David Al-DabassSeptember 2009.

Quality papers

- Your prime objective is to ensure only ‘good quality’ papers find their way to the conference proceedings.

- As a practicing academician you are familiar with what constitutes ‘quality’ in an academic context, but here are some guidelines which you may find helpful.

EMS2009 : Paper Structure

1. Paper Structure: it needs to follow the conventional steps of the ‘scientific method’, i.e.- Abstract

• - Introduction• -  Literature survey to outline

limitations/weaknesses of current systems/techniques/methods

• - The proposed new ideas• - Tools to test the quality of the proposed ideas,

e.g. simulation, software, hardware, or combinations• - Results and discussions of experimentation with

the tools to validate the new ideas• - Conclusions and suggestions for future work• - References

EMS2009 : Presentation and Language

2. Quality of Presentation and Language: look for

- well argued and discussed ideas

- quality of displaying the results, e.g. tables, graphs, charts, and references to them in the text.

- Does the title read well and reflect the content accurately?

EMS2009 : NoveltyNovelty: • is the argument for originality and novelty

convincing? • Does the author build on the findings in

the literature survey as platform for the proposals?

• How well Do the results validate the proposed ideas?

EMS2009 : References

- Are the References in quality journals and/or conferences?

- Are they cited within the text appropriately?

EMS2009 : Plagiarism

1. Plagiarism: EDAS gives a ‘similarity’ score for the paper

2. Read the text for similarity and decide if there is a case for plagiarism

3. If there is, say so in the review and

4. Ask the author to explain.

Thank you!!