2. Basic Information
Instructor: Weichun Du (at buaa.edu.cn)
Class place and time: Mon. 15:50-17:25
Tengxun WeChat Group
Office hours: WeChat Mon. afternoon
3. Evaluation
The evaluation scheme will be
class participation 10%
paper analysis and presentation - 35%
project (presentation and written report) - 55%.
4. Paper Analysis I
Collect 25 or more papers in one sub-area
Write short summaries for 3 (150-200 words)
Make a 20 minutes presentation on what you
learn on this topic
The presentation will take an integrated approach
where you introduce the motivation of the three
papers, give a precise problem definition, compare
and contrast the ways the 3 papers approach the
problem and how they validate their results, present
conclusions, and point to some future directions if
you can identify
5. Paper Analysis II
Choose and present one paper from your
superviser's paper list
Collect two questions from the paper
Ask two questions yourself
Lead group discussion
One paper every week
6. Find Related Work
Need to know the key words
May need to explore and refine during your search
Often you can find electronic version of the
papers, especially for publications related to sub-
field
Author’s website
BUAA digital library(e.buaa.edu.cn)
Springer Online
Elsevier SD Online
Wiley Online
University typically subscribes to these publishers
Search from a computer with IP address(or VPN)
belonging to your school
9. One Way to Find Related Papers
access the
rattan through a
melon
access to a
melon along its
rattan
"Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related
than distant things."
10. Term Project
Three choices
Term paper
Survey paper
Design/implementation project
Note: Analytics help us to describe what happened in
the past, understand what is happening now, predict
what will happen in the future, and make decisions
11. Term paper
Research oriented
Key components:
Problem Statement, Significance of the problem
Related Work and Our Contributions
Proposed Approach
Validation of listed contributions (experimental,
analytical)
Conclusions and Future Work
12. Survey paper
Key components
Problem Statement, Significance of the problem
Our Contributions (usually it is the
categorization/classification of the research
literature)
A classification of the papers related to the problem.
Use a concept hierarchy, figures, and diagrams if
necessary.
Summarize, classify, contrast, and compare the
research literature according to your classification
scheme
A summary of the trend and future work of this line
of research.
13. Project
Key components
Introduction and the motivation of building such a
system
Dataset, tool, and related work
System architecture and the features of the system
What the demo is about
Conclusions and Future Work
