Let’s talk about how to use a literature review for your research. I know that sometimes the amount of information available regarding a particular topic is overwhelming. Consequently if you are approaching research for the first time you may be disoriented and experience information overload. This is mainly due to these factors that are in…
This post is everything that you need to know for warming up your research engine and do your “first step”. If is time to warm up the research engine: You have a supervisor and you discussed with him/her a possible topic for your thesis. You already browsed a few scientific articles related to the topic…
In this article I will share with you a few techniques for understanding how to read scientific papers quickly and effectively. The vast majority of the scientific articles follow a structure that is known as IMRaD. That stand for Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion. In addition a scientific article is “wrapped” by an abstract and…
This post is just for introducing a Facebook group community for giving and receiving support about your thesis: URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/231572807787807/ Alternatively just click on the join group button Thesis Support Group Closed group · 2 members Join Group This thesis support group intend to be a group of people with common experiences or…
How scientific venues work? How can you define a good conference/ journal? I do not pretend to summarize all the possible answers in an article of a couple of pages. In particular in I will limit myself to a few heuristics that may give you a rule of the tumble addressing them. Clearly this approach…
Title: Human enhanced machine driven categorization (tentative) Mentor: Francesco Lelli Co-Supervisor Emiel Caron Machines are better than human in executing repetitive and computational oriented tasks. However, humans are more flexible and can conceptualize and categorize information in a superior way. The candidate will investigate the proper way to combine both the world in the…
Title: Workflow Support for Volunteer Computing (tentative)M Mentor: Francesco Lelli Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which computer owners donate their computing resources (such as processing power and storage) to one or more “projects”. Successful applications that adopted this technique include SETI@Home [1] and Folding@home [2] Toward this idea in this project the…
Title: Web APIs for Instruments and Devices (tentative) Mentor: Francesco Lelli In the coming 10 years not only computers will be connected to the Internet but also small and heterogeneous devices will be part of the web too. These devices will support people in carrying their everyday life activities. This trends is known as Internet of…
Title: Web 2.0 APIs for Grid Computing (tentative) Mentor: Francesco Lelli Grid/ Cloud computing offers to their users a virtually unlimited computational infrastructure. Users usually interact with this system using a command line interface thus limiting its use to people that are familiar with computers. The goal of the thesis is to expose similar functionality…
Title: Heuristics for pre-selecting scientific works (tentative) Mentor: Francesco Lelli This thesis is about trying to answering the following questions: “what is a good research paper?” or “is this publication worth reading?” before reading the paper. Nowadays the amount of scientific journals is overwhelming and constantly increasing. Students, as well as senior scientists, are facing…
