Transcript IMSS005 Computer Science Seminar

IMSS005
Computer Science Seminar
Lecture 3
Citation and References
Preparing Figures and Tables
Presentation Skill
Citation and References
Am I writing properly?
If you have committed plagiarism, you will be
given F grade regardless of your presentation.
Citation
 When I read students' work, I can quickly
spot any potential plagiarism since the writing
style is different from one sentence to another.
 If you are weak in English, it is even more
obvious.
 There are also software which can be used to
detect plagiarism.
 So, Don't take that risk!
 Besides, your thesis or paper could be made
available on the Internet at later stage.
 You could be telling to the whole world that
you have copied someone's work.
Citation
 Proper referencing is very important
for all students.
 Without proper referencing,
 You can be accused of plagiarism.
 You will also be disqualified for your
thesis defense.
 It is a very serious offense.
Citation
 Always quote somebody's words.
 For example, if you want to use a
definition from a book, you can write
something like this:
 David [1] A workflow management system
as "a kind of intelligent program".
 References
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[1] David. An interesting book on workflow management. Springer,
2006.
Citation
 If you want to repeat someone's idea, you
have to rewrite it in your own words and
you have to cite the reference which
contains that idea.
 For example, you want to borrow the idea of
David and use it in your thesis. You can write
something like:
 David [1] argues that a workflow management
system is kind of dumb and naive program with
little or no intelligence.
 References
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[1] David. An interesting book on workflow management. Springer,
2006.
Citation
 If the reference (in square bracket) is
crossed out, the remaining sentence,
including punctuation, must still be
correct.
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David [1] argued that …
The system developed by David [1] is…
AI has been effective as David [1] claims…
In contrast, David [1] has reported that…
Citation
 If there are more than one authors:
 Wellman et al. [144] have proposed a
competition framework for intelligent
agents.
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References
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[144] M. P. Wellman, A. Greenwald, P. Stone, and P. R. Wurman.
The 2001 trading Agent competition. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual
Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-02),
pages 935-941, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2002.
Citation
 Where to put citation:
 Decide whether names, concept (term) or dates
are important.
 If names are important, then insert after the
names.
 e.g. David [1]
 If dates are important, then insert after date.
 e.g. …discovered in 1980 [1].
 If concept (term) is important, then insert after
the concept.
 e.g. Fuzzy Logic [1]
Citation
 If you are introducing a term, you must cite at the
first appearance of the term in your thesis/report.
 e.g. In your report, if you talk about Fuzzy Logic, you
should cite the most prominent/earliest reference
that first address/invent Fuzzy Logic.
 Fuzzy Logic [6] allows reasoning based on partial set
membership rather than crisp set membership.
 References
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[6] Zadeh, L. Outline of a new approach to the analysis of complex
system and decision process, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man,
and Cybernetics, SMC-3(1), 28-44. 1973.
Citation
 Consistent:
 If you are writing names in abbreviation, then write
entries in abbreviation. E.g., do not write Yain-Whar
Si in one entry and Y-W Si in another entry.
 If you cite more than one paper of an author, then it
is even more obvious.
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[144] M. P. Wellman, A. Greenwald, P. Stone, and P. R. Wurman. The
2001 trading Agent competition. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual
Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-02),
pages 935-941, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2002.
[145] M. P. Wellman and P. R. Wurman. Real time issues for Internet
auctions. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Workshop on Dependable and Realtime E-commerce Systems (DARE-98), Denver, Colorado, USA, June 1998.
Available from ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/people/wellman/dare98.ps, accessed
6-Aug-2004.
 The same for other entries, for instance, "Pages" and
"pp", "5th" or "Fifth", "Sept" or "September".
Citation
 Sufficient Information:
 Each reference entry "must" contain sufficient
information so that people can locate that reference.
 E.g. do you have following
information in your reference?
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Name of authors,
title of the article,
Name of Journal, Book, proceedings
Volume no, issue no, Page numbers
Year
Publisher
What to cite
 Cite only significant published references:
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Journals and transactions (e.g. ACM, IEEE)
Conference proceedings
Workshop proceedings
Books
 Avoid unpublished data, theses, and
homepages from Internet (e.g. WikiPedia).
 Cite them only if such references seem
absolutely essential and cannot be avoided.
 Otherwise, do not cite them!
Citation style
 Author-date style
 In the text or document
Surname of the author
and year of publication
E.g., (Abramson & Watson, 2003)
For 4 names or above, use first author and
et al.
 E.g., (Abramson et al., 2003)
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 List of references
 Listed in alphabetical order of the surnames
of the authors, then year.
Citation style
 Numerical style with abbreviation
 In the text or document
 Each citation is given a unique number
 E.g., in a previous study [3, 10].
 List of references
 Not listed alphabetically, but in numerical
orders
 IEEE style?
Last words
 Do not insult the authors in your
literature review:
 e.g. Lawrence [1] totally overlooked the
issues of …..
 Instead, you may write
 The approach proposed by Lawrence [1]
does not take into account …
Examples
 Web site or Homepage from the
Internet:
 [1] Auction Sentry.
http://www.auctionsentry.com, accessed
6-Aug-2004.
Examples
 Software:
 [5] CPN Tools, Computer Tool for Coloured Petri
Nets. http://wiki.daimi.au.dk:
8000/cpntools/cpntools.wiki, accessed 6-Aug2004.
Examples
 Technical Specification from the
Internet:
 [10] FIPA Communicative Act Library
Specification. http://www.fipa.org/specs/
fipa00037/, accessed 6-Aug-2004.
Examples
 Journal:
 [36] P. Anthony and N. R. Jennings. Developing
a bidding agent for multiple heterogeneous
auctions. ACM Transactions on Internet
Technology, 2(3):185-217, 2003.
 [38] M. Beer, M. d'Inverno, M. Luck, N. Jennings,
C. Preist, and M. Schroeder. Negotiation in
multi-agent systems. Knowledge Engineering
Review, 14(3):285-289, September 1999.
Examples
 Conference and workshop proceedings:
 [92] K. Larson and T. W. Sandholm. An alternating
offers bargaining model for computationally limited
agents. In Proceedings of the 1st International Joint
Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS), pages 135-142, Bologna, Italy,
2002. ACM.
 [94] F. Maraninchi. Argonaute: Graphical description,
semantics and verification of reactive systems by
using a process algebra. In J. Sifakis, editor,
International Workshop on Automatic Verification
Methods for Finite State Systems, Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, pages 38-53. Springer Verlag,
Grenoble, France, June 1989.
Examples
 Technical Report:
 [116] I. Rahwan, P. McBurney, and L. Sonenberg.
Towards a theory of negotiation strategy (a
preliminary report). Technical Report ULCS-03-008,
Department of Computer Science, University of
Liverpool, May 2003. Available at
http://www.csc.liv.ac.
uk/research/techreports/tr2003/ulcs-03-008.ps,
accessed 6-Aug-2004.
Examples
 Book:
 [133] J. M. Spivey. The Z Notation: A Reference
Manual. Prentice Hall International Series in
Computer Science, 2nd edition, 1992.
Examples
 PhD Thesis:
 [138] A. H. M. ter Hofstede. Information
Modelling in Data Intensive Domain. PhD
thesis, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 1993.
Special cases
 Same authors, same year, different
titles?
 C.M. Vong. Paper 1. …, 2006a.
 C.M. Vong. Paper 2. …, 2006b.
 To cite:
 (Vong, 2006a; Vong, 2006b)
Preparing Figures and Tables
Using industry standard
notation
 Remember, a "good" picture is worth
a thousand words.
 A "good" picture is not a picture with
meaningless notations.
 Whenever you draw a diagram,
 you should use well recognized notations
from the computer science area.
 E.g, you should use DFD, UML,..etc and
should strictly follow the syntax.
Assigning meaningful
description
 All figures, tables, and graphs should
bear meaningful description.
 With clear and well-explained legend.
 For instance, it is "useless" to give
such descriptions:
 Figure 1. My system
 Table 2. Performance of the system
Citing figures and tables in your
thesis/research proposal
 if you have inserted a figure/table in your article,
 then you must cite it somewhere.
 E.g., if you have a figure called "Figure 9", then
somewhere in your text, you should cite something
like this:
 A workflow model of the library system is
depicted in Figure 9.
 Note that the above citation (the above
sentence) must appear before figure 9 in your
document.
 That means you have to talk about figure 9 before the
figure appears.
 That will allow your reader to understand what is in
the figure before actually interpreting it.
Final note
 If you want to use someone's
figures/tables in your article, you
must ask for permission from the
copyright owner.
 If it is granted, you have to state in
the figure/table description that the
figure/table is used by the permission
of the original author.
Presentation
Content
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Adequate introduction
Adequate background
Key points emphasized
Presentation well structured
Presentation Skills
 Presentation ≠Reading an article
 In preparing a presentation
 Write only main points
 Not all details
 The details are explained by you
 Main points
 For reminding the speakers
 For giving simple idea to audiences
Presentation Skills
 Fewer words
 More diagrams / animations
 Keep in mind: A picture is worth a
thousand words
Presentation Skills
 Preparation for Q&A
 Imagine you are audiences
 After reading/listening the presentation,
 What questions will you ask?
 Then prepare these questions (of course
the answer too) for yourselves.