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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
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Interesting??
 Interesting to yourself
 Interesting to your advisors
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Topics
 Novel Idea
○ Hard
○ Coincidence
 Improvements or Modifications of Previous Research
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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
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Google Scholar
 http://scholar.google.com
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ACM
 http://portal.acm.org
 Programming
 Higher Layer
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IEEEXplore
 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org
 Engineering
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SDOL (SDOS)
 http://sdos.ejournal.ascc.net/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/
 Elsevier
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Read Related Papers to the
Topics – Why read
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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
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How to decide if read or not
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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?
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 Our memory is limited
 Reference 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
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 BibTeX is a standard and long-lived format
 BibTeX is portable because of text format
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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
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 Select type
○ Article, Conference, Proceedings, Book, …etc
 Input
○ Author, Title, Journal (Proceeding), Year,
Pages
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Add from preformatted text
 ACM
 IEEE
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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 files
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 Relative file location
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Rename paper files
 12345678_{PAPER TITLE}.pdf
 a18-michelle_{PAPER TITLE}.pdf
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Choose Your Research Topic(s)
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New Ideas
 Scope
 Viewpoint
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Improvement
 Limitation
 Approximate
 NP Complete
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Modification
 Limitation
 Scenario
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Prepare Your Paper
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Motivation (Why choose the topics??)
 We want a better solution
 We want to apply on more strict or general
scenarios
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Related Works
 We DO read a lot
 We DO not copy others
 We DO not find a better idea
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Methods
Simulation (Analytic) Results
Conclusions and Future Works
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Present Your Paper
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Presentation Format
 Microsoft PowerPoint
 OpenOffice Impress
 PDF
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Figures
 Right Resolution
 Louder than words
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Titles
 Sentences
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Page Numbers
Reference
 {NAME}, “TITLE”, {BOOK TITLE}, {DATE}
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Prepare Your Paper - Colors
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Background
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 Black
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Foreground
 White
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Background
 White
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Foreground
 Black
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Reference
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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”
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