Guidelines for Discussants

As announced previously, each technical talk will have a discussant. The discussant's goal is to guide meaningful and focused discussions of the paper. Each discussant will read the paper ahead of time, will comment on the paper following the presentation, and before opening the floor to questions. The guidelines for discussants are as follows:

1. Provide a brief summary of the problem being solved and the technique used.
2. Suggest a classification of the type of research in this paper in context of the community-wide research efforts on Domain Specific Languages.
3. Suggest applications or benefits beyond what was stated in the paper.
4. Where necessary, posit questions about whether a specific idea can be used to enhance what has been attained in this work.
5. Point out areas aspects of the work that you really liked, and/or, make a controversial statement that you believe would initiate an important discussion on a topic related to the subject of the paper.

Ultimately, your goal is to help bring out the best in the work, and to position its result in the best way possible in the context of the DSL research community's efforts.