Requirements For Project Report
(400 points, 80% of the project)
Each student must submit a project final report. The report must have a title
page, main content, and references. The report should be single-column, 1
inch margins, 11-point size, double-spaced. The report is due
on 05/10/2016. To facilitate the grading of your report, please follow the
suggested organization listed below.
The title page should include
- the title of the paper or project
- student name and email address
- course name, number, and instructor's name
- a maximum 300-word abstract
- three to five keywords.
For research papers, the main content of the proposal should at least include
the following:
- Introduction
- (30 points) Discuss the background and motivation of your work.
- (30 points) Summarize the research problem
- (40 points) Summarize the proposed approach to the problem and the
results
- Related work
- (50 points) Discuss research related to yours and make comparison if
there are closely related work.
- Your approach
- (100 points) Describe your approach in detail. You may present your
result in any way you want as long as you believe it's convincing and
clear.
- Validation of your approach
- (100 points) Prove or demonstrate the effectiveness and/or efficiency
of your approach. You may do this through theorems, experiments, etc.
- Conclusions and possible future work
- (30 points) Summarize the conclusions of your work. Future work is
optional.
- References
- (20 points) List all the citations referenced in your paper. You will
lose 5 points for each dangling reference (i.e., the reference not cited
in the main text).
For survey papers, the main content should include the following:
- Introduction
- (30 points) Discuss the background
- (30 points) Summarize the surveyed research area and explain why the
surveyed area has been studied.
- (50 points) Summarize the classification scheme you used to do the
survey.
- (40 points) Summarize the surveyed techniques with the above
classification scheme.
- Survey details
- (200 points) Present the surveyed techniques using the classification
scheme in details.
- (50 points) Identify the trends in the surveyed area. Give evidences
for your decision.
- Conclusions and possible future work
- (50 points) Summarize the conclusions of your survey.
- References
- (50 points) List all the citations referenced in your paper. You will
lose 5 points for each dangling reference (i.e., the reference not cited
in the main text).