In the early of this week, I started to work on the journal version
for the ISPD papers. I started with the spatial correlation one
first. I managed to find one example that could illustrate the problem
better. Specifically, I can show that not all monotonically 
decreasing function is a valid spatial correlation. A
example is given. For a small case, I can prove the sufficient
and necessary condition. For more general case, I will have
to refer to the reference. I hope by doing this, we can better
satisfy those potential reviewers' questions. (We can decide
what shall be put and what shall be left out for the revision later.)


In the late of this week, I prepared the slides on criticality 
which I will give tomorrow during group meeting.

Over the weekend, I started to work on the dissertation according
to the outline I sent last Friday. During the writing, I found
that it's better for me to put some details into dissertation to
make it complete for future reference. Moreover, I need to
unify the terminology used across the whole dissertation. 
Therefore, I expect there are some more work to be done.
But I'll try to keep my promise to give a version to
all committee members before next Friday (Feb 24). 

-Jinjun