MN691 Research Methods and Project Design

MN691 Research Methods and Project Design

Group Project Title

Final Report

Student Names

Student IDs

Project Supervisor Name:

Industry Name:

Contact Name:

School of IT and Engineering

Trimester x 201x

AcknowledgementAcknowledge industry client and contact name along with others.

Signature of Students:

Sign your signature here

Date of Submission of Report: Put a date here clearly

Contents

TOC o "1-3" h z u Acknowledgement PAGEREF _Toc163469012 h 2Abstract PAGEREF _Toc163469013 h 41.Introduction PAGEREF _Toc163469014 h 52.Problem domain and research questions PAGEREF _Toc163469015 h 53.Background and Project Objective PAGEREF _Toc163469016 h 53.1 Summary of Literature Review PAGEREF _Toc163469017 h 53.2 Objectives of the Project PAGEREF _Toc163469018 h 54.Project Requirements Analysis and Specification PAGEREF _Toc163469019 h 55.Project plan and preliminary design PAGEREF _Toc163469020 h 66.Research methods to be used for the next stage of the project PAGEREF _Toc163469021 h 67.Conclusion, limitations and future work PAGEREF _Toc163469022 h 6References PAGEREF _Toc163469023 h 6Glossary and Abbreviations PAGEREF _Toc163469024 h 7Appendices PAGEREF _Toc163469025 h 7Appendix I: Industry Client Details PAGEREF _Toc163469026 h 7Appendix II: Individual Literature review PAGEREF _Toc163469027 h 7Appendix III: Assignment 2 updates summary PAGEREF _Toc163469028 h 7Appendix IV: Assignment 3 updates summary PAGEREF _Toc163469029 h 7Appendix V: ACS Core Body of Knowledge Mapping PAGEREF _Toc163469030 h 7Appendix VI: Meeting log book PAGEREF _Toc163469031 h 7

AbstractThe abstract should not be more than 250 words. Describe your project, focusing on research questions and research method for next stage of the project.

Introduction

[The introduction should describe what the project is about and what the reader should know about your project before reading the rest of the report. In addition, the introduction section should also tell the reader what to expect in the report. It should say what each section of the report will contain. For example, you may say something like:

In section 2 the problem domain and related research questions are addressed. Section 3 gives the background to the project including the literature review and state of the art as it is today. Second 4 gives the requirements analysis while section 5 provides the project plan and design. Section 6 discusses the research methods for the next stages of the project. Finally the conclusions are given in Section 7. These statements help a reader to zero in to sections of your report that might be of interest to him/her.]

Problem domain and research questions

[Provide project diagram of overall project and explain in one or two paragraphs]

[Explain the problem and write at least 3-4 research questions.

Formulate your research question(s) or the problem you want to address as clearly as possible. What is your research goal? Is it descriptive, exploratory, explanatory, or an evaluation? (Qualitative/quantitative?)]

Background and Project Objective[Revise your literature review to be sure that there isalignmentin yourterminologyandanalyses.

Explain how you came to this question/problem based on your previous interests (research you might have been involved in, other courses you have taken, your work experience, discussions, etc.).]

3.1 Summary of Literature Review[Since the aim of your literature review is to gain understanding of what other authors have done on this topic and for you to also gain and obtain new ideas that you could use in your project, you need to summarise the new ideas from your literature review.

This section should contain highlights from the literature review section, particularly points and ideas that you wish to use for your project.] Each student should go through at-least 6 refereed publications (3 journals and 3 conferences) and write 2-3 paragraphs of each paper in appendix II and summary of all literature review should be written in this section.

3.2 Objectives of the Project[This section is very specific to your project. It is where you now undertake detailed and further research on the theory surrounding your project and also proper and focused research on what to do and how to do it. You may even propose a theory of your own here.]

Project Requirements Analysis and Specification

[Write list of the requirements such as hardware, software or required items for the chosen project. Write detailed specifications of each item. Justify each specification with reference.]

Project plan and preliminary design

[In this section preliminary design of your project is required. Document them. Show your design equations/methods in a block diagram/UML diagram/any modelling methods. Include project design approaches (at-least one approach per student)]DO NOT INCLUDE project management or software engineering methodologies, such as waterfall, SDLC, Agile etc.

Research methods to be used for the next stage of the project

[Write how you are going to implement your above project design in terms of your research method, design of experiment, data collection method, data analysis method etc

Are there any alternatives to the experimental/investigative model design? What is the justification of your choice?]

Conclusion, limitations and future work[Give a summary of the project, and clearly list out the limitations of the simulation and the project] Include limitations, conclusion and future work.

References

[Compile your reference list as used in the review and research sections. This section should not contain any reference to any article that you have not used. Use the IEEE Transactions on Networking referencing style. Check the Library on this format. For examples:

[1] B. Klaus and P. Horn, Robot Vision. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986.

[2] L. Stein, Random patterns, in Computers and You, J. S. Brake, Ed. New York: Wiley, 1994, pp. 55-70.

[3] R. E. Kalman, New results in linear filtering and prediction theory, J. Basic Eng., ser. D, vol. 83, pp. 95-108, Mar. 1961.

[4] L. Liu and H. Miao,"A specification based approach to testing polymorphic attributes,"inFormal Methods and Software Engineering: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2004, Seattle, WA, USA, November 8-12, 2004

Glossary and AbbreviationsAppendicesIf you have appendices, then include them here, for example

Appendix I: Industry Client DetailsAttach form with industry client details (make sure to get signature from contact person on the form) and project proposal

Appendix II: Individual Literature reviewStudent 1 Literature Review

Student 2 Literature Review

Student 3 Literature Review

Student 4 Literature Review

Student 5 Literature Review

Appendix III: Assignment 2 updates summaryWrite one page summary of the sections updated according to the comments provided for assignment 1.

Appendix IV: Assignment 3 updates summary

Write one page summary of the sections updated according to the comments provided for assignment 2.

Appendix V: ACS Core Body of Knowledge Mapping

List ACS CBOK elements that you have used in this project. Describe each element to justify.

Appendix VI: Meeting log book

Include industry client and supervisor meeting log books.