tips about how to do research
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About how to doresearch
Some tips for Graduate and
PhD students(collected and adapted by A Florea)
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Content Choosing a Research Project
Standard Pitfalls for GraduateStudents
o! to do it
Guide to reading Progress
About your research report
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1. Choosing a Research
Project You must be enthusiastic about it
Solving the problems it entails must be
worthy of a MSc. or Ph.D.
It must be within sight of the state of the
art, i.e. it must be !oable" in the time
frame
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2. Standard Pitfalls for
Graduate Students Solving the World$ !o not try to solve all problems in the
worl!% set yourself a high but well focuse! goal
Manna from Heaven$ !o not stay in e&pectation of the 'big'
i!ea coming from heaven (as it will not usually come)% beproactive, search for inspiration an! i!eas, rea!, tal*, try to fin!
e&les an! use cases
Computer Bum$ !o not rush to implement a program% thin*
first about what you want to achieve, how, what metho!% ma*e a
!escription of the approach, !efine necessary algorithms, !o not
go to implementation unless you have at least a software
architecture an! a functional specification
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Standard Pitfalls for
Graduate Students Micawberism
Wilkins Micawber, a character from Dic*enss novel
David Copperfield, was always imagining himself asalrea!y achieving great things, then he ma!e !etaile!
plans of what to !o once these great things were
achieve!
Do not thin* you will fail% imagine that you have
alrea!y achieve! what you aim for% how !oes it loo*,
how can it be use!- (I am purposefully using present
and not future tense, you should do the same)
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Standard Pitfalls for
Graduate Students Ivory Tower$ !o not shut yourself in an ivory tower to !o your
research (as this will not help your progress)% tal* to people, withcolleagues, professors, people with similar interests but also topeople who *now nothing about your research
Misunderstood Genius$ !o not thin* that what you want toachieve or what you have !one can not be un!erstoo! byanybo!y% you shoul! be able to e&plain to any person what youare wor*ing on, what it is goo! for, what your contribution is
mbition !aralysis$ !o not wait to have the 'great' i!ea% you
may have it but, /ust in case you !o not, start from small i!eas,pic* an e&le, try to solve it, an! then try to apply the solutionto some other e&les. Sooner or later the 'big' i!ea willcome.
Work is 1 inspiration plus !! transpiration", #lbert $instein
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3. How to do it1. Define the problem uestion
2. 4orm a 5ypothesis5ypotheses
3. 6ocate 7esources8ather Information 9Materials
#. Plan the 7esearchDeveloping Metho!s
+. Develop a mo!el 9 algorithm approach. Set upfin! a case an! see if it fits
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How to do it0. Design an architecture of your system
:. ;rite functional specifications
ollect !ata an! more cases
11. ?est, interpret results
12. Develop an application(s) an! thin* how to
go further
%ome steps may be re&iterated 'due to feed&back(but do not skip steps
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ommunicate results "o not wait to start writing% write about what youhave !one or what you aim to achieve $ this willhelp you clarify the i!eas an! will allow you toobtain early fee!Abac*
?al* to people$ people *nowle!geable in the!omain but also other people $ can youe&plain your i!ea to people who *now nothingabout research-
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4. Guide to reading3 levels of rea!ing
Buter >ircle
Mi!!le >ircle
Inner >ircle
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Guide to reading #uter Circle$ articles about the surroun!ing
problem (e.g, intelligent agents negotiation)
rea! an intro!uctory material A all rea! 1A2 surveys on negotiation $ all an! in !epth
rea! some papers to become familiar with the
research on intelligent agents negotiation@ rea! the
abstract, +=C of intro, conclusions titles ofsections
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Guide to reading Middle Circle$ articles about the
particular type of problem you have in
min! (e.g., heuristic negotiation) rea! as for Buter >ircle all Intro 1A2
core Sections
mar* can!i!ates for Inner circle collect further rea!ings from references
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Guide to reading Inner Circle$ articles about the specific
approach you consi!er (e.g, heuristic
negotiation strategies for multiple, concurrentbiAlateral encounters ) rea! the entire article, then rea! it again select *ey articles for your wor* an! rea!
them again (a 3r!time) search applications base! on the approach
(you shoul! !o this for the mi!!le circle also)
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Guide to reading$or every article you have read %regardless
of the circle& do'
note title, authors, /ournal, pages, etc., so asto able to refer it afterwar!s
ma*e some notes about the content of everyarticle (usually this will help you both to
remember an! to un!erstan! better) length of notes shoul! !epen! on the circle
level
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. Progress ?ry to *eep your own progress report (your
teacher may as* for one)
Echievements over the past)months 8oals for the ne&t)months
Fame 3 or # *ey papers that you have rea! in the
past)months
(choose the)value that best fits you)
>ollect other people fee!bac* on your
progress
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!ibliogra"h# about HtdR [email protected]!iana.e!umit.research.how.tomit.research.how.
to.html [email protected]
http@!epts.washington.e!urural7H7E6!esignscimetho!.html #ne more tip'!o not ta*e for grante!
everything you rea! about 5t!7 (inclu!ingthese sli!es )
?hin* about it, try it uestion everything(this is what a researcher !oes), an! findyour own way to do it
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/mit.research.how.to/mit.research.how.to.htmlhttp://www.cs.indiana.edu/mit.research.how.to/mit.research.how.to.htmlhttp://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/research-tips/http://depts.washington.edu/rural/RURAL/design/scimethod.htmlhttp://depts.washington.edu/rural/RURAL/design/scimethod.htmlhttp://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/research-tips/http://www.cs.indiana.edu/mit.research.how.to/mit.research.how.to.htmlhttp://www.cs.indiana.edu/mit.research.how.to/mit.research.how.to.html -
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$. About #our research
re"ort Jy the en! of first semester you have to write
a research report
(e)uirements for the (( of Master Istudents
Min 1+ pages
;ritten in Knglish Hse your own wor!s, even when !escribing
other"s wor* or uote (L says that '')
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Re%e%er what #ou ha&e toco&er in #our RR
1. Define the problem uestion
2. 4orm a 5ypothesis5ypotheses
3. 6ocate 7esources8ather Information 9 Materials
#. Plan the 7esearchDeveloping Metho!s+. Develop a mo!el 9 algorithm approach
. Set upfin! a case an! see if it fits
0. Design an architecture of your system
:. ;rite functional specifications
ollect !ata an! more cases
11. ?est, interpret results
12. Develop an application(s) an! thin* how to go further
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