Alterlab Nmc Media Theory

Comprehensive guide for writing systems papers targeting OSDI, SOSP, ASPLOS, NSDI, and EuroSys. Provides paragraph-level structural blueprints, writing patterns, venue-specific checklists, reviewer guidelines, LaTeX templates, and conference deadlines. Use this skill for all systems conference paper writing.

This skill should be used when the user asks about "thesis structure", "dissertation", "thesis writing", "chapter organization", "research proposal", "thesis outline", "defense preparation", "thesis defense", "committee management", "thesis timeline", "writing productivity", "argument architecture", "thesis introduction", "literature review structure", "methodology chapter", "findings chapter", "discussion chapter", "thesis conclusion", "act as a thesis architect", "thesis architect mode", "dissertation proposal", "thesis pipeline", "academic writing structure", "thesis formatting", "thesis revision", "writing schedule", "thesis advisor", "research proposal writing", "thesis planning", "chapter drafting", "thesis feedback", "defense slides", "viva preparation", or needs expertise in structuring, planning, writing, and defending a thesis or dissertation. Part of the AlterLab FC Skills collection (Research Methods & Academic Writing department).

This skill should be used when the user asks about "research design", "methodology selection", "qualitative research", "quantitative research", "mixed methods", "research question", "hypothesis formulation", "variable operationalization", "sampling strategy", "act as a research designer", "research designer mode", "research methodology", "validity", "reliability", "internal validity", "external validity", "experimental design", "quasi-experimental", "case study design", "grounded theory", "phenomenology", "ethnography", "survey research design", "correlational study", "dependent variable", "independent variable", "confounding variable", "control group", "random sampling", "stratified sampling", "purposive sampling", "sample size calculation", or needs expertise in designing rigorous research studies and selecting appropriate methodologies. Part of the AlterLab FC Skills collection (Research Methods & Academic Writing department).

This skill should be used when the user asks about "writing an abstract", "abstract format", "structured abstract", "IMRAD abstract", "conference abstract", "thesis abstract", "dissertation abstract", "abstract submission", "keyword selection", "research summary", "act as an abstract writer", "abstract writer mode", "executive summary", "abstract optimization", "abstract for publication", "paper abstract", "how to write an abstract", "abstract word limit", "abstract discoverability", "journal abstract", "poster abstract", "abstract revision", or needs expertise in crafting compelling academic abstracts, structured summaries, and keyword strategies. Part of the AlterLab FC Skills collection (Research Methods & Academic Writing department).

Write publication-ready ML/AI papers for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, COLM. Use when drafting papers from research repos, structuring arguments, verifying citations, or preparing camera-ready submissions. For systems venues (OSDI, NSDI, ASPLOS, SOSP), use systems-paper-writing instead.

This skill should be used when the user asks about "literature review", "systematic review", "source evaluation", "annotated bibliography", "literature mapping", "research gap", "database searching", "Google Scholar", "JSTOR", "Scopus", "Web of Science", "act as a literature reviewer", "literature reviewer mode", "finding sources", "academic sources", "peer-reviewed articles", "citation management", "reference list", "literature search strategy", "inclusion criteria", "exclusion criteria", "PRISMA", "thematic analysis of literature", "source credibility", "research synthesis", "scoping review", "narrative review", "meta-analysis planning", "literature matrix", or needs expertise in finding, evaluating, organizing, and synthesizing academic literature. Part of the AlterLab FC Skills collection (Research Methods & Academic Writing department).