CS 542: Distributed Database Systems, Spring 2020

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Format of the Report

Your report must contain the following technical information:
  1. Statement of the Problem.
    This should contain a precise statement of the scope of your project, objective and aim of the project.
    1 paragraph.
  2. Design, Methods or Procedures.
    This should contain information about the architecture of the software that you developed (figures with a brief description of the processing may be useful), a brief explanation of the different components developed, the algorithms that you implemented (references may be useful), etc. In addition, it may include any limitations to the capabilities of your system. You may include what can and can not be done.
    This section can be 2-4 pages.
  3. Experiments and Analysis of Data Collected.
    This should contain the description of the experiments or tests performed to validate the correctness of your project. You may include parameters or benchmarks that you used to test your software and its capabilities. Include any data that was obtained by running your system. (Tables or figures might be useful). You may even include an analysis of the data here.
    This section can be 2-3 pages.
  4. Experiences.
    List here any technical problems that you might have encountered. What was interesting about this implementation?
    No more than 1 page
  5. Observations.
    List here any conclusions that can be drawn for larger systems and future systems based on your work. Relate this to any other project that you know of (prior works).
    1 page.