Miguel PardalOct. 2015

LEIC 2000

Unisys Portugal

Lecturer at Técnico since 2002

MEIC 2006

Visiting Student at MIT in 2009

DEIC 2014

First publication in 2004Since then, about 20 more

http://web.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/miguel.pardal

Share experience

Provide tools

Learn from youBest thing about being a teacher

Read

Write

“X is better than Y!”It needs to be grounded!

Work of othersCitations

Own workExperimental results

Statistically valid

Our research is only possible because of the work of others before us

Actual People, Labs, Universities

Keep a reference repositorySave the PDF

Identify each paperAuthor name, year, (conference acronym, keywords)

Technical report

Workshop paper

Conference paper

Journal article

Book chapter

Book

Increasingpublic exposure and

scrutiny

IEEExplore:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org

ACM:http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm

AAAI:http://www.aaai.org/Library/library.php

Google Scholar:http://scholar.google.com/

Microsoft Academic: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/

ResearchGate

Mendeley

Academia.edu

Start with the best sourcesGood conference ?

Accept rate < 20%

Only 1 in 5 submitted papers gets accepted

Good journal ?Impact factor - average number of citations to recent articles published in the journal

Start with the more recent papersThey will cite older, relevant work in their references

Find out where the community gathers

Title

Abstract

Introduction

Figures

Conclusion

References

Read related work

Short summary of paperShould fit in an index card

What is relevant?System characteristics

Assumptions

Examples/scenarios

...

State good and identify bad points

Use note taking app with searchOneNote, EverNote, …

Tables are great for comparing things

Start with existing columns, or think of your own

Add more columns if you need

Empty cells remind you of what you don’t know yet

System Initial Release Latest Version …

Windows [Gates83]

1983 10.0

Mac [Jobs84] 1984 10.11 (El Capitan)

Linux [Torvalds91] 1991

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_operating_systems

A model is a simplification/abstraction of a complex object

To show relevant characteristics

Easier to manipulate than the actual object

Represent:Structure

Behavior

Class Diagram

Sequence Diagram

The work is (almost) complete

Is it worth writing?YES

To write is to express thoughts into wordsUse the third person, past tense

So that others may learn

Your own learning is not complete without the “distillation process” that comes with writing

Use the most common science language, so that your work may reach the widest audience

English

What about Portuguese and other languages?Still important for scientific divulgation

ConferenceOngoing work

JournalFully developed and final findings

Journals have 3 times more citations, butIt is harder to be accepted

Conditional accepts

Takes a long time until final publication

Process to increase the quality of the writing

Follow sound science practices

ReviewsNot always constructive

Do not get offendedIt is not about you, it is about your work

You should be the first to know that there is always something to improve…

English quality

Structure

Literature reviewComplete and to the point

Motivation for decisions

RigorAvoid misunderstandings

Identify the limitations of your own workThey will be found anyway (sooner or later)

They are future work opportunities

Introduction

ProblemRelated Work

ProposalMethodology

ResultsDiscussion / Evaluation

ConclusionContributions

Future Work

Move 1 – Establish the “territory”Claiming centrality and/or

Making topic generalizations and/or

Reviewing items of previous research

Move 2 – Establish the nicheCounter-claiming or

Indicating a gap or

Question-raising or

Continuing a tradition

Move 3 – Occupy the nicheOutlining purposes or

Announcing present research

Announcing principle findings

Indicating Research article structure

http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Swalesian-Introduction

3 tellsSay what you will say

Say

Say what you said

Provide guidance and context to the reader

Widely used

Produces documents with excellent aestheticsEasy to follow template rules

Built-in support for mathematical expressions.

Generates the reference list automatically!BibTeX

It is a programming language (with comments)These are the main contributions:

% do not forget to add the prototype!

Science is personal and socialPeople and communities are central

ReadLearn from other authors

Cite them

Compare what they did

WriteExplain in a concise way

Learn from the reviewers

Share with others

Miguel.Pardal@tecnico.ulisboa.pt ObrigadoThank you

“The traveler sees what he sees.The tourist sees what he has come to see.”

― G.K. Chesterton

Guide by myself and Joana Pardal:http://web.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/miguel.pardal/www/doc/quick-guide-research.pdf

IEEE Authorship Series and toolbox:http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/authors_journals.html