The Craft of Preparing a Winning WISR'95 Reuse Position Paper

Kevin Wentzel
Hewlett Packard Laboratories
1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303
Tel: (415) 857-4018
Fax: (415) 857-8526
Email: wentzel@hpl.hp.com

Larry Latour

University of Maine
Department of Computer Science
222 Neville Hall
Orono, Maine, 04469
Tel: (207) 581-3523
Fax: (207) 581-4977
Email: larry@gandalf.umcs.maine.edu

Abstract:

If you submitted a position paper over the past few years, this process has not changed much. In fact, we owe this "how to" file to Martin Griss of Hewlett-Packard and Larry Latour of the University of Maine, who prepared it for the '92 Palo Alto WISR workshop!

This short article provides reusable guidelines on writing a WISR position paper in the suggested LATEX workshop format. It is important for prospective contributors to realize that they should not submit research papers, but position papers! A position paper is between 3 and 5 pages long and must follow a certain format. It starts off with an Abstract which includes a succinct list of Keywords, Workshop Goals and preferred Working Group affiliations. The main body of the paper consists of three sections: Background, Position, and Comparison followed by the References and Biography sections.



Keywords: Reuse, position paper, LATEX guidelines, practice



Workshop Goals: Learning; networking; advance state of theory of reusable position papers.



Working Groups: reuse process models, reuse education, position paper guidelines.