Part 1: Research Methods

Final essays (zip)

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This part corresponds to 1.5 hp, and has pre-meeting homework, a meeting, and post-meeting homework.

Important dates

• May 20: Deadline for signing up.
• May 30: Deadline for pre-meeting homework (articles and questions).
• June 1: Meeting
• June 8: Deadline for 2 page essay.
• June 15: Deadline for peer review of 2 essays.
• June 22: Deadline for update of your essay.

Pre-meeting homework

Before the meeting, you should:

• Note that the literature below is written by authors from many different backgrounds, and does not necessarily reflect the traditions in your specific field.
  
  
• Read the following general articles:

  G1	Tedre, Matti, and Erkki Sutinen. "Three traditions of computing: What educators should know." Computer Science Education 18.3 (2008): 153-170. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08993400802332332
  G2	What Wikipedia says on the scientific method. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

  
  
• Read the following advice on how to read and write research:

  W1	William G. Griswold, CSE, UC San Diego. How to read an engineering research paper. https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~wgg/CSE210/howtoread.html
  W2	Simon Peyton Jones. How to write a great research paper. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/giving-a-talk/writing-a-paper-slides.pdf
  W3	Ashley Reiter. Writing a Research Paper in Mathematics. Sept 12, 1995. http://web.mit.edu/jrickert/www/mathadvice.html
  W4	Solomon Goulomb Mathematical Models: Uses and Limitations. IEEE Transactions on Reliability R-20(3):130-131, September 1971. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=5216113

  
  
• Read all the abstracts and introductions of the following articles on specific research methodologies.
  Select and read two of the articles.

  S1	Per Runeson, Martin Höst, "Guidelines for Conducting and Reporting Case Study Research in Software Engineering", Empirical Software Engineering, Vol. 14, Issue 2, pp. 131-164, 2009. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10664-008-9102-8
  S2	Alan R. Hevner, Salvatore T. March, Jinsoo Park, Sudha Ram. Design science in information systems research. MIS Quarterly, Vol 28, Issue 1, March 2004, pp 75-105. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2017217 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25148625 (Link updated 2016-05-29)
  S3	Robert L. Glass, V. Ramesh. Iris Vessey. An analysis of research in computing disciplines. CACM 2004. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=990686
  S4	Lennart Ljung. Perspectives on System Identification. Plenary talk at the 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, South Korea. http://users.isy.liu.se/en/rt/ljung/seoul2dvinew/plenary2.pdf
  S5	A Georges, D Buytaert, L Eeckhout. Statistically rigorous java performance evaluation. OOPSLA 2007. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1297033
  S6	Moody, Daniel L. The "physics" of notations: toward a scientific basis for constructing visual notations in software engineering. Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on 35.6 (2009): 756-779. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1810442 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2009.67 (Link updated 2016-05-27)
  S7	Krishnamurthi, Shriram, and Jan Vitek. The real software crisis: Repeatability as a core value. Communications of the ACM 58.3 (2015): 34-36. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2658987 (This article is about artifact evaluations.)
  S8	Nielsen, Jakob, and Rolf Molich. Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, 1990. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=97281 See also more recent info at: https://www.nngroup.com/topic/heuristic-evaluation/

  
  
• Find two articles related to your own field, but which use different research approaches or methodology. Read through the articles, print them, and bring to the meeting.
  
  
• Fill in short preliminary answers to the following questions in the following google form. Deadline: Monday, May 30.

  Q1	What faculties are there at Lund University?
  Q2	What do you think are some important goals of research in mathematics, (natural) science, and engineering?
  Q3	List some typical kinds of research contributions in your field.
  Q4	How would you characterize the typical methods of research in your field?
  Q5	How is a typical paper structured in your field?
  Q6	What is the main goal of all research in your opinion?
  Q7	Which of the two specific articles above did you select and read?
  Q8	Which two articles from your own field did you select, read, and will brings copies of to the meeting?
  Q9	Other reflections.

Meeting

June 1, 09:00-16:00

Place: E:2116

Post-meeting homework

Register yourself as a user at http://moodle.cs.lth.se/:

• Register for the following course: PhD Course: Methodology, Ethics, Innovation
• using the following course key: CSAC
• Enter your essay, peer review, and update in this system.
• Any problems with moodle: contact Martin Höst (046-222 90 16)

Write a 2 page essay, reflecting on what research methods you currently use and which ones you might consider using in the future for your work. Deadline: Wednesday, June 8

Peer review of 2 other essays. Deadline: Wednesday, June 15

Update your essay, taking the review comments into account. Deadline: Wednesday, June 22