Structure of a white paper

If you are planning to write a technical white paper the following high level structure may be helpful.

Parts of a paper:

• Title (keep it short!)
• Authors (typically listed in alphabetical order unless some one’s contribution stands out)
• Abstract (shorter version of intro)
• Intro (here is where you do the selling – perhaps the most important section)
  • What is the problem?
  • Why is it important? What are the applications?
  • Why are existing solutions inadequate?
  • What are our key technical contributions?
  • Highlight of experimental results
• Related work (here you compare & differentiate with existing work, try to be comprehensive)
• Model & Problem definition (formal statement of the problem)
• Algo/solution for subproblem 1
• Algo/solution for subproblem 2
• Experimental evaluation
  • Data sets (preferably real-life)
  • Performance metrics (accuracy, execution time)
  • Algo/solutions compared
  • Experimentation platform
  • Performance graphs
• Conclusions
  • Recap of contributions, experimental results
  • Directions for future work
• References
• Appendix (here’s where you put details like proofs of theorems, non-critical but useful reference material) 

Try to fill all these in 10 pages.