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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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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GENERAL RESEARCH METHODS
Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory(WBNLAB)
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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
{NAME}, “TITLE”, {BOOK TITLE}, {DATE}Wireless and Broadband Network Laboratory
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Prepare Your Paper - Colors Background
Black Foreground
White 國立台北科技大學
BackgroundWhite
ForegroundBlack
國立台北科技大學
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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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