COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
PROJECT TITLE
AUTHOR NAME
2009-2010
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Your research paper:
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- Title
- Your name, TJHSST Computer Systems Lab 2009-2010
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Background and example(s) of previous work done in this area
- Development section(s)
- Results and a
Discussion of these results (at this stage the results will be priliminary)
- Conclusions and any Recommendations for further directions for research that can be done
- References
- Appendices
- Code,
Testing and Analysis, Comments
Examples of these sections listed above for your paper
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Programs With Common Sense John McCarthy - 1959
(I found this referenced here
- Programming a Computer to Play Chess - by Claude Shannon - 1949