Literature Assignment (SC42050)

Symposium

The literature symposium will be held in the Drebbelweg building.

The whole group needs to be present and needs to stay at least for the whole block of 4 or 3 presentations, so coming and leaving is only possible during the break.

If a group needs to change a time slot, it is possible, but please negotiate it with another group directly and let Jens Kober (j dot kober at tudelft dot nl) know about it.

The program for the literature symposium is as follows:

Description

This assignment aims to help students in gaining experience with searching for literature and writing a survey. The assignment will be performed in groups of 4 students. You can use the discussion board to get in contact with colleagues and form groups (you must be logged in on Brightspace to use the discussion board).

Assignment material:

1. General assignment description (2018) (PDF). This description applies to all the assignments; please read it carefully.

2. Paper review form (DOC). Use this form to review the paper of your group.

3. Presentation review form (DOC). Use this form to review a presentation tryout of your group.

4. A unique assignment topic from the list below.

List of assignment topics

Each group of students will choose one topic from this list. Have a look at the topics below, to determine which of them fits your background and preferences best. (If you have problems opening some PDFs, please save them to your hard drive and open them from there.) Instructions on how to sign up for a particular topic will be posted after the start of the course.

Select three topics and send an email to Jens Kober (j dot kober at tudelft dot nl), with the following information:

• E-mail subject “[SC42050] Literature Assignment”

• Your names, student numbers, and email addresses

• The three selected topics with the complete titles and corresponding numbers in decreasing order of preference (i.e., first choice on top). The reason for selecting three topics is to account for the possibility of conflicting selections. If two or more groups select the same first topic, then this topic is given to the group that requested it earliest, while the other group receives their second preference, and so on. To minimize the possibility of such conflicts, topics that are allocated to groups will be removed from the list as soon as possible by changing its status.

You will then receive a confirmation email that contains the title of the (single) assignment topic that has been allocated to your group.

Review Groups

Each group member will also review the paper and/or the presentation of another group. In this way, you will have the possibility to improve the assignment before final submission of the paper and presentation by considering the comments from the other group. A document “Answer to Reviewers” has to be submitted, indicating how the comments from the other group were included (or why not). A table will be posted here which review groups are assigned to each other. In the table above, the review groups are assigned to each other. The deadline for submitting your paper and presentation to each other is March 21 2018, and the deadline for the responses is no later than one week, namely March 28 2018.

Useful links

Search engines for scientific articles:

• IEEE Xplore

• Google Scholar

• Web of Science

• Springer

• Science Direct