COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH

PROJECT TITLE

AUTHOR NAME

2008-2009

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  • Your research paper:
    1. Online help from Mayfield Publications on research paper writing
    2. Initially you can use .doc format, but we're also learning to use LaTeX.
      You must do a version of your paper in LaTeX, and convert this version
      to PDF (dvipdf or tex2pdf) and optionally HTML (latex2html)
    3. Title
    4. Your name, TJHSST Computer Systems Lab 2008-2009
    5. Abstract
    6. Introduction
    7. Background and example(s) of previous work done in this area
    8. Development section(s)
    9. Results and a Discussion of these results (at this stage the results will be priliminary)
    10. Conclusions and any Recommendations for further directions for research that can be done
    11. References
    12. Appendices
      • Code, Testing and Analysis, Comments

  • Examples of these sections listed above for your paper

    1. Learning Ant Foraging Behaviors by S. Luke and L. Panait See example sections: (this paper doesn't have numbered sections, but we would like numbered sections in your paper, after the abstract)
      • Title, author, location of authorship
      • Introduction and previous work
      • "Development" sections: Evolving Foraging Strategies, Experiments
      • Conclusions and further work
      • Tables and visuals
      • Acknowledgements
      • References
    2. Multiagent Traffic Management by K. Dresner and P. Stone Example sections:
      • Title, author, location of authorship
      • Abstract
      • Introduction
      • "Development" sections:
        • The Model, Overpass and Traffic Light Theory
        • The Simulator
        • Intersection Control Policies
      • Screenshots and tables
      • Empirical Results
      • Discussion and Related Work
      • Conclusion
      • Acknowledgments
      • References
    3. Abstract Shade Trees by McGuire, Stathis, Pfister, Krishnamurthi Example sections:
      • Title, authors
      • Abstract
      • Introduction
      • Related work
      • System and Workflow Overview
      • "Development" sections
        • Atom definitions
        • Weaving algorithm
        • GUI Implementation
      • Figures
      • Results, Performance, Limitations, Other future work
      • Conclusions
      • References
      • Appendix with code and other figures
    4. A Heightfield on an Isometric Grid Example sections:
      • Title, authors
      • Abstract
      • Introduction and related work
      • Development sections
        • Experiments
        • Data Structure (this is a very long section, lots of sub-sections)
      • Figures and tables and formulas
      • Applications
      • Conclusions and future work
      • Acknowledgements
      • References
      • Appendix, code
    5. Glut - by Mark Kilgard
      This not necessarily a research paper, but it's a good example of a paper describing
      a presentation of (at the time) his new product called GLUT for OpenGL
      See:
      • Introduction and background (beginning of the paper)
      • A Short GLUT Example
      • User Input and Other Callbacks
      • Menus
      • Next Time - Future work
    6. Programs With Common Sense John McCarthy - 1959 (I found this referenced here
    7. Programming a Computer to Play Chess - by Claude Shannon - 1949