1.Research Methodoloy

Resarch Process

1.Literature Search

• 1.1 Web of Science • Previously known as Web of Knowledge. • It was originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). • Currently maintained by Clarivate Analytics (previously the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters). • Web of ScienceTM is the one of the most trusted publisher-independent global citation database. • WoS allows to track ideas across disciplines and time from almost 1.9 billion cited references from over 171 million records. • Citations are the formal, explicit linkages between papers that have particular points in common.

• 1.2 Microsoft Academic • Indexed an overview page that allow to easily explore top citing articles and references of the article. • Coverage : approx. 210 million articles • Abstracts • Related articles • References • Cited by • Links to full text • Export formats : APA, MLA, BibteX

• 1.3 BASE • Hosted at Bielefeld University in Germany • Coverage : approx. 136 million articles • Abstracts • No Related articles • No References • No Cited by • Links to full text • Export formats : RIS, BibTex

• 1.4 CORE
• 1.5 Science.gov
• 1.6 Semantic Scholar
• 1.7 Baidu Scholar

2.Why CITE?

• Ethics
  • Intellectual honesty
  • Attribution (tracking who said what when)
• Legal
  • Attribution
  • Copyright
• Research
  • Attribution
  • Evidence and support for authors’ claim  Evidence of state-of-the-art
• Confidence in author
  • Used as assessment of authors’ knowledge and understanding
• Reader convince
  • Helps the reader to refer to useful related research
• Attribution
  • The source of the idea
  • E.g. “according to the work done by [x]”
  • E.g. “as proved by x in [y]”
  • Citation: specification of the source location, include all necessary details req uired to obtain the source (e.g. author names, title, where published, year, page n umber, URLs, location and date for conferences)

3.Objectives

• Milestone of the research
• Follows logically from the vision
• Task oriented break-down of projected work
  • Task definition, one object to one task
  • Task organization, task interrelations
  • Task scheduling (Gannt Chart)
• Advantages
  • Novelty, uniqueness, benefit (economic, time, efficiency)
  • Measured against state-of-the-art and literature review
• Methodology
  • Overall statement of advantages focused on process
  • Follows logically from task definition

4.Problem Statement

• What is the research problem you aim to solve?
• What is the central research question? (ie What do you want to find out?)
• What will we know after completion of your work that we did not know before? (i.e. What is novel?)
• Why does it matter? (i.e. Why should someone care about this research?)
• Requires understanding of research area
  • Literature review
  • Web, news, and popular reading
  • Advisers
  • Graduate level courses
  • Conferences (keynote, talks, and personal discussion)
• Requires statement of
  • Research context (research field / sub-field)
  • Significance
    • Application to real world
    • Benefit to human-kind, the world

5.Steps in defining a Problem

• Statement of the problem in a general way
• Understanding the nature of the problem
• Surveying the available literature
• Developing ideas through discussions

• Rephrasing the research problem

• Methodology
  • How do you (or plan to) conduct the research? Is it experimental or theoretical?
  • How will you know that you have succeeded? (What is your plan to demonstrate the validity of your claims?)
  • Explain briefly why your approach is appropriate in the context of your work. What alternatives would there be and why are you not using them?
• Related Work
  • Briefly summarise the 4 most important publications for your research.
  • How has this related work influenced your work?
  • What is better (or different) in your work?

6.Professional Ethics

• Respect for intellectual property rights
• Academic honesty
• Give credit where credit is due
• Respect other’s contributions; evaluation of scholarship
  • E.g.: Graduate students accomplishing their degree by rightfully claiming their contributions in print, Faculty rightfully claiming their contributions to support P&T.
• Promote a culture of mutual respect and contribution recognition: your contributions are like-wise to be recognized
• Correctly represent others’ works
• respectfully comment, review or critique others’ works
• Professional memberships
  • ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
  • IEEE Code of Ethics

7 Latex

• TeX is essentially a Markup Language (like HTML, XML and RTF) • TeX written by Donald Knuth in 70 ́s. • A revolution in typesetting . • Latex is an extension of TeX. • Macro packages to make TeX easier to use. • LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. • LaTeX pronounced “lay-tech” or “lah-tech”. • not like latex gloves!

• Designed by academics and easily accommodates academic use. • Good for large documents • De facto standard for scientific publishing • Professional typesetting • Best output • It is the standard for scientific documents • Processing Mathematical (& other) symbols • Meaning-based structuring (rather than appearance) • Knowledgeable and helpful user group • Its FREE! • Platform independent

• MiKTeX • MiKTeX is a typesetting system for the Windows. • Download from www.miktex.org for free • It is generally recommended to install MiKTeX first, then WinEdt.

• WinEdt • WinEdt is a text editor. • WinEdt creates the source file (.tex and others). • Download from www.winedt.com for free for 30 days. • WinEdt costs $30.

• TexStudio • An integrated writing environment • For creating LaTeX documents. • Easy and comfortable • Syntax-highlighting, • Integrated viewer, • Reference checking, • Free.

• File structure • Document Class • Predefined Formats (article, report,book,..).

• Overleaf

  • Overleafisacollaborativecloud-basedLaTeX editor. • Used for writing, editing and publishing scientific documents. • It partners with a wide range of scientific publishers to provide official journal LaTeX templates, and direct submission links.