Guidelines Dissertation MTech

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Lingayas University(Deemed-to-be-University under Section 3 of UGC Act, 1956)

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

Title of the document

Guidelines for preparation of project report/dissertation

Scope

This document applies to faculty members, students of UG and PG studies of the department.The purpose of this document is to ensure that after the project work, students prepare and

submit a good project report/dissertation.

Date created

Friday, 25 July 2008

Date updated

Thursday, 04 June 2009

Pre-requisites

The students are expected that they have very good skills on basic word processing including

formatting, editing, table handling, etc. and ability to make attractive Power Point presentations,

that may include clear and concise slides containing a number of images, diagrams, flow charts,tables, graphs, etc.

Objective

Dissertations are undertaken by students to develop in them the ability to apply theoretical and

practical knowledge to solve real life problems related to industry, academic institution and

research laboratories. Students are advised to choose areas relevant to the needs of IT Industry.

The student will submit a synopsis at the beginning of the semester for the approval from the

project committee in a specified format. Synopsis must be submitted within two weeks. The firstdefense, for the dissertation work, should be held with in two months time. Project

Report/Dissertation must be submitted in a specified format to the project evaluation

committee/dissertation evaluation committee/faculty board at the end of semester.


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CD containing the software, data, demo/simulation, he/she shall attach a sealed CD

holder at the back side inner cover of the dissertation.

2.4 CD/DVD Softcopy of the project report/dissertation, sample datasets used, outputs,

screen shots, user manual (if any), safety guidelines (if any), source code, papers andother publications brought out and all references may be written on to the CD/DVD and

affixed at the back inside cover of the project reports binding.

3. FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS

3.1 Cover Page and title page A specimen copy of the Cover page and Title page of the

report are given in Appendix 1.

3.2 Bonafide Certificate The Bonafide Certificate shall be in double line spacing usingFont Style Times New Roman and Font Size 12, as per the format in Appendix 2.

The certificate shall carry the supervisors signature and shall be followed by thesupervisors name, academic designation (not any other responsibilities of administrative

nature), department and full address of the institution where the supervisor has guided the

student. The term SUPERVISOR must be typed in capital letters between thesupervisors name and academic designation.

3.3 Certificate of Authentication The Certificate of Authentication is a certificate fromthe students/scholars side mentioning that the work is original and that it has not been

submitted elsewhere for consideration. The certificate shall be in double line spacing

using Font Style Times New Roman and Font Size 12, as per the format in Appendix 3.

3.4 Abstract Abstract should be at least one page synopsis of the dissertation typed double

line spacing, Font Style Times New Roman and Font Size 12.

3.5 Table of Contents The table of contents should list all material following it as well as

any material, which precedes it. The title page, Bonafide Certificate and Certificate of

Authentication will not find a place among the items listed in the Table of Contents butthe page numbers of which are in lower case Roman letters. One and a half spacing

should be adopted for typing the matter under this head. A specimen copy of the Table of

Contents of the project report is given in Appendix 4.

3.6 List of Tables The list should use exactly the same captions as they appear above thetables in the text. One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing the matter under

this head.

3.7 List of Figures The list should use exactly the same captions as they appear below the

figures in the text. One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing the matter underthis head.


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3.8 List of Symbols, Abbreviations and Nomenclature One and a half spacing should be

adopted or typing the matter under this head. Standard symbols, abbreviations etc. should

be used.

3.9 List of Publications Listing of various papers/publications brought out by thestudent/student group/scholar should be placed here in the format as applicable for

References.

3.10 Sections and Chapters Include Sections only if required and the document becomes

very long. Otherwise, the layout of 07 chapters may be as follows:

Chapter Title What should it contain

1 Introduction Introduction/background of work

Objective

Layout of chapters

2 Literature Survey Different parts of this chapter will cover details of workdone by scientists in the chosen area.

Ensure that the references are properly connected to thetext of this chapter

3 To be coined These three chapters will be based purely on the maintheme of the project work. Work should be comfortably

divided into three manageable portions. It should beoriginal work and description related to the work only

should be given.

Do not give lots of background/ introduction material tofill up the page. Do not give make it too long beyond 3-

4 pages.

Hardware, software, and other items used, along withthe description of datasets used and their source may

also be given in these chapters

Detailed description of the experimental setup, no. ofexperiments conducted, etc. should also be part of thesechapters

The highlight of these chapters are the design anddevelopment work

4 To be coined

5 To be coined

6 Results andDiscussions

The outcome of the work, its analysis, graphical layoutsbringing out the comparison of experiments, andthereafter discussions/analyses of those results obtained

should be written in this chapter

7 Conclusions andFuture Scope

Conclusions

Future Scope

The Chapters 3, 4 and 5 form the most crucial part of any project report/dissertation. The

main text of the chapters will be divided into several divisions and sub-divisions.


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Each chapter should be given an appropriate title.

Tables and figures in a chapter should be placed in the immediate vicinity of thereference where they are cited.

Footnotes should be used sparingly. They should be typed single space and placeddirectly underneath in the very same page, which refers to the material they annotate.

3.11 Appendices Appendices are provided to give supplementary information, which is

included in the main text may serve as a distraction and cloud the central theme.

Appendices should be numbered using Arabic numerals, e.g. Appendix 1, Appendix2, etc.

Appendices, Tables and References appearing in appendices should be numbered andreferred to at appropriate places just as in the case of chapters.

Appendices shall carry the title of the work reported and the same title shall be made

in the contents page also.

3.12 List of References The listing of references should be typed 4 spaces below the

heading REFERENCES in alphabetical order in single spacing left justified. The

reference material should be listed in the alphabetical order of the first author. The nameof the author/authors should be immediately followed by the year and other details. There

should be at least 75 references in all under this head for B. Tech. students and 125 for

M. Tech. students. There shall be separate listing for papers, technical reports, PPTpresentations, masters and doctoral thesis, books and websites. Ensure that there are no

missing links and that all references are properly connected to the text of the project

report/dissertation.

A typical illustrative list given in Appendix 5 relates to the citation example quoted

above.

3.13 Table and figures - By the word Table, is meant tabulated numerical data in the body of

the project report as well as in the appendices. All other non-verbal materials used in the

body of the project work and appendices such as charts, graphs, maps, photographs anddiagrams may be designated as figures.

4. TYPING INSTRUCTIONS

4.1 The impression on the typed copies should be black in color.

4.2 One and half spacing should be used for typing the general text. The general text shall betyped in the Font style Times New Roman and Font size 11 or 12.

4.3 There should not be any type of page bordering in the project report/dissertation on anypage.


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4.4 The entire document should be made in past tense and neutral gender. Since the project

work/dissertation would have been completed at the time of submission, it is necessary

that the document is prepared in past tense. Words referring to personification such as

I, we, he, they, our, their, etc. should be avoided.

4.5 The student/student group/scholar shall also ensure that the copyright protection of the

technology/concept/software, etc. from where the idea/motivation has been derived havebeen adequately acknowledged. It is of utmost importance that the scientific work done

by others should be respected.

4.6 LIMAT has been accorded the status of Deemed-to-be-University and hereafter known as

Lingayas University, but all B. Tech. students passing out till Jun 2012 and M. Tech.

students passing out till Jun 2010 shall mention the name of Institute only as Lingayas

Institute of Management & Technology.

4.7 The usage of language constructs for developing the project report/dissertation should becrispy, straight, and free from all ambiguities. For better document, try avoiding termssuch as probably, possibly, likely, may be, etc. which bring in the essence of

inaccuracy in scientific/technical work. Also, try not to use is as far as possible.

4.8 All B. Tech. students shall submit at least three copies at the time of obtaining signatures.

Additionally, one copy for each student in their group, and one for each supervisors, if

needed.

4.9 All M. Tech. students submitting their dissertation to M. D. University, Rohtak shall

ensure that they print the project report on both sides of the paper. They shall submit at

least four copies at the time of obtaining signatures.

4.10 Only the Ph.D. scholars can use the term Scholar in certificates and at all other places

instead of student.

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SPECIMEN 1

SOME PERFORMANCE ASPECTS CONSIDERATIONS OF A

CLASS OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK

A PROJECT REPORT

Submitted by

SANDHYA. ARoll No. 1CS019

in partial fulfillment for the award of the degree

of

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY

in

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

LINGAYAS INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT &TECHNOLOGY,FARIDABAD

MAHARISHI DAYANAND UNIVERSITY

Rohtak, Haryana, India

MAY 2009


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APPENDIX 2

(A typical specimen of Bonafide Certificate)

LINGAYAS INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT &TECHNOLOGY, FARIDABAD

BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE

Certified that this project report SOME PERFORMANCE ASPECTS

CONSIDERATIONS OF A CLASS OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK is the

bonafide work of by CHANDRA PRAKASH (1CS078), ABHISHEK KUMAR (1CS099)

and PARUL SEHGAL (1CS110), who carried out the project work under my supervision,

towards partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Degree of Bachelor of Technology in

Computer Science & Engineering from Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak.

Signature of the Head of the Department Signature of theSupervisor

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT SUPERVISOR

Department of Computer Sc. & Engg.


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APPENDIX 3

(A typical specimen of Certificate of Authentication by the student/scholar)

LINGAYAS INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT &

TECHNOLOGY, FARIDABAD

CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

I solemnly declare that this project report SOME PERFORMANCE ASPECTS

CONSIDERATIONS OF A CLASS OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK is the

bonafide work done purely by me/us, carried out under the supervision of Prof./Dr./Mr./Ms.

________________________, towards partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Degree of

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering from Maharishi Dayanand

University, Rohtak during the year 20___ - 20___.

It is further certified that this work has not been submitted, either in part of in full, to any

other department of the Maharshi Dayanand University, or any other University, institution or

elsewhere, or for publication in any form.

Signature of theStudent/Scholar


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APPENDIX 4

(A typical specimen of table of contents)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER NO. TITLE PAGE NO.

ABSTRACT iii

LIST OF TABLE xvi

LIST OF FIGURES xviii

LIST OF SYMBOLS xxvii

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS xxviii

1. INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 GENERAL 1

1.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

1.2.1 General 5

1.2.2 . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.2.2.1 General 19

1.2.2.2 . . . . . . . . . . 25

1.2.2.3 . . . . . . . . . . 29

1.2.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

1.3 . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 45

1.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

2. LITERATURE REVIEW 69

2.1GENERAL 75

2.1.1 . . . . . . . . . . 99

2.1.2 . 100


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3. CHAPTER 3 120

3.1GENERAL 121

3.1.1 . . . . . . . . . . 124

3.1.2 . 128

4. CHAPTER 4 130

4.1GENERAL 131

4.1.1 . . . . . . . . . . 134

4.1.2 . 138

5. CHAPTER 5 140

5.1GENERAL 141

5.1.1 . . . . . . . . . . 144

5.1.2 . 148

6. CHAPTER 5 RESULTS & DISCUSSIONS 150

7. CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSIONS & FUTURE SCOPE 155

APPENDICES 157

A. FLOW CHART 158

B. SOURCE CODE 159

C. DESIGN DIAGRAMS 160

REFERENCES 162


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APPENDIX 5

REFERENCES

Papers and articles

1. Ariponnammal, S. and Natarajan, S. (1994), Transport Phonomena of Sm Sel X

Asx, Pramana Journal of Physics Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 421-425 .

2. Barnard, R.W. and Kellogg, C. (1980),Applications of Convolution Operators to

Problems in Univalent Function Theory,Michigan Mach Journal, Vol. 27, pp.8194.

3. Shin, K.G. and Mckay, N.D. (1984), Open Loop Minimum Time Control of

Mechanical Manipulations and its Applications, Proceedings of the American Control

Conference, San Diego, CA, pp. 1231-1236.

Books, technical reports and thesis

4. Haykin, Simon (1999),Artificial Neural Networks, McGraw Hill Publications, San

Diego, CA.

5. La Vigna (1986),Learning Vector Quantization, Ph.D. thesis, University of Porta,

Spain

Websites and PPT presentations

6. University of Pennsylvania, Gene Expression Data Analysis (GEDA), available at

http://geda.conio.es

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