Requirements For The Final Term Paper

(400 points, 80% of the project)

Each group must submit the final term paper. The paper must have a title page, main content, and references. The paper should be single-column, 1 inch margins, 11-point size, and single-spaced. The paper should be at most 15 pages, excluding references and well marked appendices.

The proposal is due in class on 04/30/04. 

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
• group member name(s) and email address(es)
• 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).
• Bonus points
  • (100 points) The instructor may give up to 100 points extra credit to well presented papers with original contribution.

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
  • (100 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).