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General Research methods

General Research methods. Procedures of Research. Find interesting topics Read related papers to the topics Choose your research topic(s) Prepare your paper Present your paper. Find Interesting Topics. Interesting?? Interesting to yourself Interesting to your advisors Topics Novel Idea

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General Research methods

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  1. General Research methods Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  2. Procedures of Research • Find interesting topics • Read related papers to the topics • Choose your research topic(s) • Prepare your paper • Present your paper Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  3. Find Interesting Topics • Interesting?? • Interesting to yourself • Interesting to your advisors • Topics • Novel Idea • Hard • Coincidence • Improvements or Modifications of Previous Research • Inherit • Worthwhile • NP • Limited Scenario • General Scenario Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  4. Read Related Papers to the Topics • Where to find • Why read • How to read • How to organize Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  5. Read Related Papers to the Topics – Where to Find • Google Scholar • http://scholar.google.com • ACM • http://portal.acm.org • Programming • Higher Layer • IEEEXplore • http://ieeexplore.ieee.org • Engineering • SDOL (SDOS) • http://sdos.ejournal.ascc.net/ http://www.sciencedirect.com/ • Elsevier Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  6. Read Related Papers to the Topics – Why read • What do you want to know • Overview • Brief skim • Presentation • Dig deeply • Challenge the arguments • Understand fully • Information • Taking notes for later usage and reference • How to decide if read or not • Title • Abstract • Keyword • Be Referenced Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  7. Read Related Papers to the Topics – How to Read for Breadth • Read the introduction • Read the section headings • Look at the tables and graphs • Read the definitions and theorems • Read the conclusions • Consider the credibility • Skim the bibliography Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  8. Read Related Papers to the Topics – How to Read in Depth • Examine the assumptions • Examine the methods • Examine the statistics (simulations) • Examine the conclusions Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  9. Read Related Papers to the Topics – How to take notes • Highlight the major points • Find the definition • Find the example • Figure out the chart and table • Note for the correlation • Note for the objection • Write the summary (review) Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  10. Read Related Papers to the Topics – How to Organize • Print out and archive • All in one • Folders • Gmail • Why do we need to organize read papers? • Our memory is limited • Reference is important to the readers Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  11. What is JabRef? • JabRef is a Java-based, BibTeX-based biography reference manager • JabRef is cross platform • BibTeX is a biography format • BibTeX is a standard and long-lived format • BibTeX is portable because of text format • LaTeX is one of the most popular science text formatting system Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  12. How to use JabRef? • Create a database • Add new BibTeX entry • Select type • Article, Conference, Proceedings, Book, …etc • Input • Author, Title, Journal (Proceeding), Year, Pages • Add from preformatted text • ACM • IEEE Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  13. JabRef Demo • Execute JabRef • Add new database • Add new entry • Essential Information • Add from ACM Digital Library • Add from IEEE Xplore Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  14. Get BibTex Information from ACM Digital Library Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  15. Get BibTex Information from IEEE Xplore Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  16. Tips on Paper Organizations and JabRef • Use “Group” in JabRef to organize similar but not identical topics • Assign a directory for putting downloaded paper files • Relative file location • Rename paper files • 12345678_{PAPER TITLE}.pdf • a18-michelle_{PAPER TITLE}.pdf Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  17. Choose Your Research Topic(s) • New Ideas • Scope • Viewpoint • Improvement • Limitation • Approximate • NP Complete • Modification • Limitation • Scenario Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  18. Prepare Your Paper • Motivation (Why choose the topics??) • We want a better solution • We want to apply on more strict or general scenarios • Related Works • We DO read a lot • We DO not copy others • We DO not find a better idea • Methods • Simulation (Analytic) Results • Conclusions and Future Works Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  19. Present Your Paper • Presentation Format • Microsoft PowerPoint • OpenOffice Impress • PDF • Figures • Right Resolution • Louder than words • Titles • Sentences • Page Numbers • Reference • {NAME}, “TITLE”, {BOOK TITLE}, {DATE} Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  20. Prepare Your Paper - Colors • Background • White • Foreground • Black • 國立台北科技大學 • Background • Black • Foreground • White • 國立台北科技大學 Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

  21. Reference • JabRef • http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ • Michael J. Hanson and Dylan J. McNamee, “Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology”, Jan, 2000 • Michael Alley, “Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides” • Jean-Yves Le Boudec, “Writing a Paper” Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory (WBNLAB) Dept. of CSIE, NTUT

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