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GENERAL RESEARCH METHODS

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Procedures of Research

Find interesting topics Read related papers to the topics Choose your research topic(s) Prepare your paper Present your paper

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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

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Read Related Papers to the Topics Where to find Why read How to read How to organize

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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

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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

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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

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Read Related Papers to the Topics – How to Read in Depth

Examine the assumptions Examine the methods Examine the statistics (simulations) Examine the conclusions

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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)

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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 limitedReference is important to the readers

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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 formatBibTeX is portable because of text format

LaTeX is one of the most popular science text formatting system

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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 textACMIEEE

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JabRef Demo

Execute JabRef Add new database Add new entry Essential Information Add from ACM Digital Library Add from IEEE Xplore

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Get BibTex Information from ACM Digital Library

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Get BibTex Information from IEEE Xplore

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Tips on Paper Organizations and JabRef Use “Group” in JabRef to organize

similar but not identical topics Assign a directory for putting

downloaded paper filesRelative file location

Rename paper files12345678_{PAPER TITLE}.pdfa18-michelle_{PAPER TITLE}.pdf

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Choose Your Research Topic(s) New Ideas

ScopeViewpoint

ImprovementLimitationApproximateNP Complete

ModificationLimitationScenario

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Prepare Your Paper Motivation (Why choose the topics??)

We want a better solutionWe want to apply on more strict or general scenarios

Related WorksWe DO read a lotWe DO not copy othersWe DO not find a better idea

Methods Simulation (Analytic) Results Conclusions and Future Works

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Present Your Paper Presentation Format

Microsoft PowerPointOpenOffice ImpressPDF

FiguresRight ResolutionLouder than words

TitlesSentences

Page Numbers Reference

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Prepare Your Paper - Colors Background

Black Foreground

White 國立台北科技大學

BackgroundWhite

ForegroundBlack

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Reference

JabRefhttp://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”

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