Survey-based Term Project

Term Project: Survey Paper
CSC 8530

The goal is to choose a suitable topic, in consultation with the instructor, perform exhaustive literature search of the recent material (proceedings, journals, theses/dissertations and technical reports), catalog published material on the chosen topic, browse through the papers and read the important ones, classify the results obtained so far, and write a survey paper on the state-of-the-art the research on the chosen topic. Use ACM Computing Survey papers as guides for style, content, and level of detail (check out samples in the ACM's digital library available through GSU library).

The final survey paper should typically report on (i) 4 foundational papers, (ii) 8 most recent (and relevant) journal papers and (iii) 8 most recent and relevant conference papers and technical reports to convey the state-of-the-art techniques and knowledge.

Course Website: Each student sets up a web site for this survey, where all components are to be posted by the following deadlines - hard copies need to be submitted to the instructor as well. For all online references cited, have links available on this site. Use this cite to also post your presentations a week before your deadline for review. Send a link to your site within a week to the GTA for linking off the course site.

Deadlines:

• Topic Selection: Feb 17
  Submit a half-page write-up defining the scope of your survey. Also, by this date, post the write-up at your web site.

• Bibliography of literature found: Mar 3
  This may be a partial list to be complemented as the literature search continues. Have links to these references on your web site.

• Annotated Bibliography of the literature found: March 17
  (Scan through the papers and write a brief comment on its content not exceeding 4-5 lines - not from their abstracts/intro. Identify 25 to 30 main papers to be read more thoroughly.)

• Detailed Annotated Bibliography and Classification of the Results: Mar 31
  (i) Detailed comments on papers read thoroughly. (ii) Classification scheme should be a natural one which makes it easier to understand the major developments in an area, and identifies the sub-hierarchies. For each class of major result obtained on the chosen topic, identify the primary and secondary papers associated. The classification scheme will yield the organization of the survey paper.

• Survey Paper: Apr 21
  Start with an abstract, explain the topic/problem and define basic terminologies, present various approaches taken or major results obtained justifying your classification, present each major result and briefly discuss minor results within each category giving illustrations where needed, give the current trend and future work remaining in the area, and include the bibliography. All work and explanations must be adequately referenced through out the survey. Have a table of contents in the beginning.

  Appendix contains (1) classification and (2) annotated bibliography.

  A good survey paper would be of publishable quality.