Paper outline:

          1. Abstract (1 or at most 2 paragraphs)
               - A summary of the paper. 
               - Designed for someone in the field. 
               That is, they (the readers) know about 
               genetic algorithms and the application area. 
               - Never use abbreviations in the abstract
     
             a. Problem
	     b. Method of attack
             c. Are the Results promising?

             Abstracts are meant to interest the reader 
             and draw him/her into reading the paper.


          2. Introduction (a few paragraphs)
              Someone is interested in your work because
              they read the abstract. Now, provide :

              a. Motivation 
                  - What is the problem and
                    why is it interesting (application areas)
                  - Have other people found it interesting?
                  - Why use GAs on your problem?
              b. Background 
                  - Who has done work in this area before.
     (Goldberg and Holland must be cited in all GA papers)      
              c. Short description of Methodology
                  - Your audience is some one in CS who may not
                    know much about GAs or your application area.
                    so a paragraph on GAs, a paragraph on application
                    area is appropriate
              d. Summarize your results 
                 - Don't say how you got these results, 
                   just what they were
              e. Outline or structure of the rest of the paper.

             The idea is to get the reader to ask how did you get
             the results you got? To find out they better read the rest
             of the paper, or, if they are more familiar with the 
             topic to go to the appropriate section.


          3. Methodology
               For someone who may not know much about GAs 
               or problem area. Flesh out the material in the 
               introduction.

               Methodology may require more than one section
               Perhaps an extra one for representation or encoding.

               a. What is a GA? The algorithm, the theory.
               b. What is your problem and how do you use 
                  a GA on your particular problem?   
               c. Representation, operators, heuristics


          4.  Results and Analysis (may be two sections)
               What did you do? Why? and  was  the outcome 
               what you expected? Why or why not.
               
               This section usually has a lot of figures and
               tables.
		
               The format is usually:
		 For each Idea I had
                  - The neat idea i had of applying GAs to 
                    my problem led me to do expect X.
                  - When I tried it, here's what 
                    happened and why



           5. Conclusions and Future Work
                Summarize the results and the CONSEQUENCES of
                your results. Consequences means ->
                impact on your field.

                - What questions does  your work raise?
                - Your suggestions for how to answer those questions
                  OR
                  Conjectures 
                  (informed guess as to what the answer is)
                  and some intuition to support your conjectures.      
                - Most people in your field will read the abstract
                  results, and this section. 
                - Be very careful about what you say. If you say 
                  something that does not feel right or is 
                  completely wrong you will completely destroy 
                  the validity of your entire work.
                - At the same time, if you don't make the right 
                  conclusions and raise the right questions, you 
                  will once again destroy the validity of 
                  the entire  body of work you did.
                - this is one the IMPORTANT  sections, don't
                  think that it will be easy. Spend time on it.



             6. Bibliography/References.
                 Any style is ok but it must be complete