How To Research & Communicate Effectively: Conwet Lab

How to Research &
communicate effectively
Javier Soriano, PhD.
Computer Networks and Web Technologies Lab.

CETTICO Research Group CoNWet Lab.
http://conwet.fi.upm.es
Contents
Research skills
Writing and publising research papers
Research talks and paper presentation
Writing a grant proposal

Career development
Responsible conduct in research
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Information and Communication Technologies
Research Group (ICT-CETTICO) CoNWet Lab.
http://hydra.ls.fi.upm.es/research/conwetlab
Phases of the Systematic Literature

Review Research Method
•  A method to report reliable conclusions

about a research area collecting
systematically quality evidences
As proposed by Kitchenham
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Phase 1: Planning the review
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Phase 2: Conducting the review
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Phase 3: Reporting the review
! Results and discussion

"  Reports knowledge extracted from the
studies considered in the SLR
"  Answers to the arisen research questions
are built on empirical studies
"  Approach: Narrative Synthesis
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References
! Barbara Kitchenham and Stuart
Charters. Guidelines for performing
systematic literature reviews in
software engineering. Technical
Report EBSE 2007-001, Keele
University and Durham University
Joint Report, 2007
! Jennie Popay, Helen Roberts, Amanda
Sowden, Mark Petticrew, Lisa Arai,
Mark Rodgers, Nicky Britten, Katrina
Roen, and Steven Duy. Guidance on
the conduct of narrative synthesis in
systematic reviews. Technical Report,
ESRC Methods Programme, 2006
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Why Bother?
! Fallacy
“We write papers
and give talks
mainly to impress
others, gain
recognition, and
get promoted”
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Papers communicate ideas
! Your goal: to infect the mind of your

reader with your idea, like a virus
! Papers are far more durable than
programs (think Mozart)
! The greatest ideas are (literally)
worthless if you keep them to yourself
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Writing papers: Model 1
3. Write paper
1. Idea
2. Do research
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Writing papers: Model 2
3. Do research
1. Idea
2. Write paper
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Writing papers:
Benefits of Model 2
3. Do research
1. Idea
2. Write paper
! Forces us to be clear, focused

! Crystallises what we don’t understand
! Opens the way to dialogue with others: reality
check, critique, and collaboration
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Do not be intimidated
! Fallacy
“You need to have a fantastic idea
before you can write a paper or give a
talk. (Everyone else seems to.)”
! Ideas demonstrate their interest and
strength after publication: Write a
paper
"  Writing the paper is how you develop the
idea in the first place
"  It usually turns out to be more interesting
and challenging that it seemed at first
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The purpose of your paper

! The purpose of your paper is…
“To convey your idea”
! … from your head to your reader’s head

! Everything serves this single goal
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The purpose of your paper

! The purpose of your paper is not…
“To describe the WizWoz system”
! Your reader does not have a WizWoz

! He/She is primarily interested in re-
usable brain-stuff, not executable
artefacts
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Conveying the idea
•  Here is a problem
•  It s an interesting problem
Reviewer: I Wish I knew how to solve that!
•  It s an unsolved problem
•  Here is my idea
•  My idea works (details, data)

•  Here s how my idea compares
Reviewer: I see how that works Ingenious!
to other people s approaches
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APA editorial style: Research

Report Should include:
! A concise description of:
"  Your logic
"  Relevant previous research
"  Your procedures and results
"  Your interpretation of the findings
! Everything needed to evaluate your
thinking and your study
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Structure
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APA editorial style: Major Sections

of the Report
! Title Page
! Abstract
! Introduction
! Method
"  Participants
"  Apparatus
"  Procedures
"  Results/Findings
"  Conclusions
"  Recommendations
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APA editorial style: Sections should

include:
! Discussion
! References
! Reference to necessary appendices
! Tables if relevant
! Figures if relevant
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APA editorial style: Levels of

Headings
! Use headings to provide clarity and
give structure – these should be
sequentially numbered
! Use sub headings – correctly
numbered ie 2, 2.1, 2.1.1,
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APA editorial style: Title Page

! Title page includes:
"  A concise title describing the study
"  The name of the author
"  The name of the paper/module for which
the study is being completed for.
"  Nothing else goes on the title page
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The abstract
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The abstract
!  Althought the abstract is first, it is
usually written last, after the paper is
finished
!  Used by program committee members
to decide which papers to read
!  Four sentences [Kent Beck]
1.  State the problem
2.  Say why it’s an interesting problem
3.  Say what your solution achieves
4.  Say what follows from your solution
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Example
1.  Many papers are badly written and
hard to understand
2.  This is a pity, because their good ideas
may go unappreciated
3.  Following simple guidelines can
dramatically improve the quality of
your papers
4.  Your work will be used more, and the
feedback you get from others will in
turn improve your research
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APA editorial style: Abstract
! A concise summary (maximum 250

words, describing the research
project)
! Abstract goes on a separate page
! Although the abstract is first, it is
usually written last, after the paper
is finished
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Introduction
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The introduction (1 page)

1.  Describe the problem
2.  State your contributions
...and that is all
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Describe the problem
Use an example to
introduce the
problem
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State your contributions

! Write the list of contributions first
! The list of contributions drives the
entire paper: the paper substantiates
the claims you have made
! Reader thinks “gosh, if they can really
deliver this, that’s be exciting; I’d
better read on”
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State your contributions

! Do not leave the
reader to guess
what your
contributions are!
Bulleted list of
contributions
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Contributions should be
refutable
We describe the We study its We have used

WizWaz system. properties WizWaz in practice
It is really cool
We give the syntax We prove that the We have built a GUI

and semantics of a type system is toolkit in WizWaz,
language that sound, and that and used it to
supports concurrent type checking is implement a text
processes (Section decidable (Section editor (Section 5).
3). Its innovative 4). The result is half the
features are... length of the Java
version.
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No “rest of this paper is…”
! Not:
"  “The rest of this paper is structured as
follows. Section 2 introduces the problem.
Section 3 ... Finally, Section 8 concludes”
! Instead: Use forward references from
the narrative in the introduction
"  “The introduction (including the
contributions) should survey the whole
paper, and therefore forward reference
every important part.”
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APA editorial style: Introduction
! Outlines for the reader the logic of the

study and how the study relates to
previous research
! Usually ends with the specific
hypothesis/es tested in your research
study
! Well written IF the hypothesis/es seem
to follow clearly from the material
presented in the introduction
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Referencing the Work
! The abstract should not contain cites

! Throughout the paper, you should
reference the ideas and work of other
authors and date using APA format as
shown below
•  Jackson (1994) argued that the results were not truly
reflective of the actual situation
•  Some have argued that the results do not reflect the
situation (Jackson, 1994)
•  Several researchers (Jackson, 1994; Perkins & Brown,
1992; Rossberg, 1989) disagree with this interpretation
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The core
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No related work yet!

We adopt the notion of transaction from Brown [1], as modified for
distributed systems by White [2], using the four-phase interpolation
algorithm of Green [3]. Our work differs from White in our advanced
revocation protocol, which deals with the case of priority inversion as
described by Yellow [4].
Your Related Your

reader work idea
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No related work yet
Reviewer: I feel Problem 1: describing alternative

tired approaches gets between the reader
and your idea
Reviewer: I feel
stupid Problem 2: the reader knows nothing
about the problem yet; so your
(carefully trimmed) description of
various technical tradeoffs is
absolutely incomprehensible
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Instead…
! Concentrate single-mindedly on a
narrative that
"  Describes the problem, and why it is
interesting
"  Describes your idea
"  Defends your idea, showing how it solves
the problem, and filling out the details
! On the way, cite relevant work in
passing, but defer discussion to the end
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The payload of your paper
! “Consider a bufircuated semi-lattice D,

over a hyper-modulated signature S.
Suppose pi is an element of D. Then we
know for every such pi there is an epi-
modulus j, such that pj < pi.”
"  Sounds impressive...but
"  Sends readers to sleep
"  In a paper you MUST provide the details,
but FIRST convey the idea
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The payload of your paper
! Introduce the problem, and your idea,

using
"  EXAMPLES
And only then present the general case
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Using examples
! The Simon PJ
question: is there
any typewriter font?
Example right away
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Conveying the idea
! Explain it as if you were speaking to

someone using a whiteboard
! Conveying the intuition is primary, not
secondary
! Once your reader has the intuition, she/
he can follow the details (but not vice
versa)
! Even if she skips the details, she/he still
takes away something valuable
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Evidence
! Your introduction makes claims

! The body of the paper provides
evidence to support each claim
! Check each claim in the introduction,
identify the evidence, and forward-
reference it from the claim
! Evidence can be: analysis and
comparison, theorems, measurements,
case studies
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APA editorial style: Method
! Includes a detailed description of the

participants, measures and procedures
! Previously published measures and
procedures should be referenced
! Enough details should be included so that
another researcher could replicate
exactly the procedure.
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APA editorial style: Results
! Should include a summary of the

findings, the statistical tests and
the summary statistics
"  Descriptions of the participants
"  Tests of the hypotheses
! May use tables and figures to help
organise the presentation
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APA editorial style: Tables
! Tables are numbered consecutively ie

Table 5.1; Table 5.2
! The title of the table should be underlined
! Tables should be referenced in the text,
not duplicated in the text – if you
describe a table in the text then the table
is unnecessary
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APA editorial style: Figures
! Figures are numbered consecutively

(independently of tables)
! Figures can be used as an effective
format to explain a process or give
an instant visual indication of
percentages
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Related work (1-2 pages)
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Related work
! Fallacy:
“To make my work look good, I have to
make other people’s work look bad”
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The truth: credit is not like money
! Giving credit to others does not

diminish the credit you get from your
paper
"  Warmly acknowledge people who have
helped you
"  Be generous to the competition. “In his
inspiring paper [Foo98] Foogle shows....
We develop his foundation in the following
ways...”
"  Acknowledge weaknesses in your
approach
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The truth: credit is not like money
! Failing to give credit to others can kill

your paper
"  If you imply that an idea is yours, and
the referee knows it is not, then either
•  You don’t know that it’s an old idea (bad)
•  You do know, but are pretending it’s yours
(very bad)
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Making sure related work is

accurate
! A good plan: when you think you are
done, send the draft to the competition
saying “could you help me ensure that I
describe your work fairly?”
! Often they will respond with helpful
critique
! They are likely to be your referees
anyway, so getting their comments up
front is jolly good
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Structure
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APA editorial style: Conclusions
! The interpretation of your study

"  Summarise the findings
"  Relate the findings to your hypothesis/es
"  Relate the findings to previous research and the
hypothesis/es of others
"  Acknowledge the weaknesses in your study
"  Discuss the directions for further research
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APA editorial style:

Recommendations
! These should have relevance to the
body of the report and be realistic
in terms of budgets, policy
constraints, the market etc
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References (0.5-1 page)
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APA editorial style: References
!  Every study mentioned in the paper should be

included in the references
!  References should relate only to material cited
within the manuscript
!  Ordered alphabetically by author and date
"  Weaver, David. & Oppermann, Martin (2000) Tourism
Management. John Wiley & Sons. Australia
!  Each reference should include author's name,
complete title of the cited work, title of the
source, volume, issue, year of publication, and
pages cited.
!  When you use the source in the text, author's
name and year of publication should appear (Ex.,
Travers, 1995)
!  Do not include any abbreviations
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! One author:
"  Author, A. A. (1994). Title of work.
Location/City, State: Publisher.
! Two authors:
"  Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (1994). Title
of work. Location/City, State: Publisher.
! More than two authors:
"  Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C.
(1994). Title of work. Location/City, State:
Publisher.
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! Journal article:
"  Sawyer, S., & Tapia, A. (2005). The sociotechnical
nature of mobile computing work: Evidence from a
study of policing in the United States. International
Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, 1
(3), 1-14.
! Instance of publication in press:
"  Juno, S. (in press). Roadmap for e-commerce
standardization in Korea. International Journal of
IT Standards and Standardization Research.
! Edited book:
"  Zhao, F. (Ed.). (2006). Maximize business profits
through e-partnerships. Hershey, PA: IRM Press.
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!  Chapter in an edited book:

"  Jaques, P. A., & Viccari, R. M. (2006). Considering
students emotions in computer-mediated learning
environments. In Z. Ma (Ed.), Web-based intelligent e-
learning systems: Technologies and applications (pp.
122-138). Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing.
!  Report from a university:
"  Broadhurst, R. G., & Maller, R. A. (1991). Sex offending and
recidivism (Tech. Rep. No. 3). Nedlands, Western Australia:
University of Western Australia, Crime Research Centre.
!  Published proceedings:
"  Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (1991). A motivational approach to
self: Integration in personality. In R. Dienstbier (Ed.),
Nebraska Symposium on Motivation: Vol. 38. Perspectives
on motivation (pp. 237-288). Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press.
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!  Unpublished doctoral dissertation or master s

thesis:
"  Wilfley, D. (1989). Interpersonal analyses of bulimia: Normal-
weight and obese. Unpublished doctoral dissertation,
University of Missouri, Columbia.
!  Paper presented at … :
"  Lanktree, C., & Briere, J. (1991, January). Early data on the
Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children (TSC-C). Paper
presented at the meeting of the American Professional
Society on the Abuse of Children, San Diego, CA.
!  Web site:
"  VandenBos, G., Knapp, S., & Doe, J. (2001). Role of
reference elements in the selection of resources by
psychology undergraduates. Journal of Bibliographic
Research, 5, 117-123. Retrieved October 13, 2001, from
http://jbr.org/articles.html
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!  When using the source in the text, state the
author's name and year of publication:
"  Example 1: In most organizations, data resources are
considered to be a major resource (Brown, 2002; Smith,
2001).
"  Example 2: Brown (2003) states that the value of data is
recognized by most organizations.
!  When quoting another author’s work, the author's
name, the date of publication, and the page(s) on
which the quotation appears in the original text
should follow the direct quote:
"  Example 1: Brown (2002) states that "the value of data is
realized by most organizations" (p. 45).
"  Example 2: "In most organizations, data resources are
considered to be a major organization asset" (Smith, 2003,
pp. 35-36) and must be carefully monitored by the senior
management.
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The process
! Start early. Very early.

"  Hastily-written papers get rejected
"  Papers are like wine: they need time to
mature
! Collaborate
! Use collaborative tools to support
collaboration (E.g., Wiki, mail lists,
Google docs, MindMeister, CVS, etc.)
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Getting help
! Get your paper read by as many

friendly guinea pigs as possible
"  Experts are good
"  Non-experts are also very good
"  Each reader can only read your paper for
the first time once! So use them carefully
"  Explain carefully what you want (“I got lost
here” is much more important than “wibble
is mis-spelt”)
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Listening to your reviewers
! Every review is gold dust. Be (truly) grateful

for criticism as well as praise
"  This is really, really, really hard
"  But it’s really, really, really, really, really, really
important
! Read every criticism as a positive suggestion
for something you could explain more clearly
! DO NOT respond “you stupid person, I meant
X”. Fix the paper so that X is apparent even to
the stupidest reader
! Thank them warmly. They have given up their
time for you
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Language and style: Basic stuff
! Submit by the deadline

! Keep to the length restrictions
"  Do not narrow the margins
"  Do not use 6pt font
"  On occasion, supply supporting evidence
(e.g. experimental data, or a written-out
proof) in an appendix
! Always use a spell checker
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Language and style: Visual

structure
! Give strong visual structure to your
paper using
"  sections and sub-sections
"  bullets
"  italics
"  laid-out code
! Find out how to draw pictures, and use
them
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Language and style: Visual

structure
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Language and sytle: Use the active

voice
! The passive voice is “respectable” but it
DEADENS your paper. Avoid it at all costs
NO YES
It can be seen that… We* can see that…
34 test were run We** ran 34 tests
These properties were We** wanted to retain

thought desirable these properties
It might be thought that You*** might think this
this would be a type error would be a type error
* “We” = you and the reader
** “We”= the authors
*** “You” = the reader
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Language and style: Use simple,

direct language
NO YES
The object under study The ball moved sideways

was displaced horizontally
On an annual basis Yearly
Endeavour to ascertain Find out
It could be considered The garbage collector

that the speed of storage was really slow
reclamation left
something to be desired
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APA editorial style: Writing Style
! To achieve a good presentation ensure

your work is
"  Precise
"  Concise
"  Well organized
"  Well structured
"  Provides sufficient information for the reader to
understand is if required be able to replicate the
study
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Sumary
! If you remember nothing else:

"  Identify your key idea
"  Make your contributions explicit
"  Use examples
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Some good starting points… to

continue
!  References
"  Simon Peyton Jones’ excellent talk “How to write a great research
paper”. Available at
http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/giving-a-talk/giving-
a-talk.htm
"  Gian-Carlo Rota's excellent talk “Ten lessons I wish I had been
taught”, which, among other things, has a bit to say about giving a
talk. Available at http://www.rota.org/hotair/lesson.html
"  David Patterson's talk “How to have a bad career in research/
academia” has many wise things to say on a related topic.
Available at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pattrsn/talks/nontech.html
"  Mark Leone's Web page has a good collection of links to other
resources. Available at
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/how-
to.html
"  APA Presentation Style Guide
!  “Advice on Research and Writing”. Available at
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/
how-to.html
!  Del.icio.us tags
"  http://del.icio.us/conwet/Writing
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Some style guides…

!  AMERICAN PSYCOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.
ApaStyle.org. Style tips [en línea]. APA, s.d. <http://
www.apastyle.org/styletips.html>. [Consulta: 9
septiembre 2002]
!  The Chicago manual of style. 14th ed. Chicago; London:
University of Chicago Press,1993. ISBN: 0-226-10389-7
!  THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA.
MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing.
Gibaldi, Joseph (ed. lit.). 2nd ed. 1998. 343 p. ISBN:
0-87352-699-6
!  THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA.
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Gibaldi,
Joseph (ed. lit.). 5th ed. 1999. 332 p. ISBN:
0-87352-975-8
!  HARNACK, Andrew; KLEPPINGER, Eugene. Online! A
reference guide to use internet sources [en línea].
Bedford/St. Martin's, actualización 2001 [Consulta 9
septiembre 2002]. Chapters 5-8. Citation styles.
<http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/
citex.html>
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Some style guides…

!  CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES. Citation &
Style Guides [en línea]. Last updated on July 18,
2002. <http://juno.concordia.ca/services/
citations.html> [Consulta: 9 septiembre 2002]
!  Internet citation guides. Citing Electronic Sources
in Research Papers and Bibliographies [en línea].
Susan Barribeau (comp.); Jessica Baumgart (act.)
Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Memorial Library, updated: March 7, 2001.
<http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/
Memorial/citing.htm> [Consulta: 9 septiembre
2002]
!  ESTIVILL, Assumpció; URBANO, Cristóbal. Cómo
citar recursos electrónicos [en línea]. Versión 1.0.
[Barcelona]: Universitad de Barcelona. Facultat de
Biblioteconomía y Documentació, 30 mayo 1997.
<http://www.ub.es/biblio/citae-e.htm>
[Consulta: 9 septiembre 2002]
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Some norms
!  INTERNATIONAL STANDARIZATION ORGANIZATION.
Documentation -Références bibliographiques- contenu,
forme et structure. Norme international ISO 690:1987
(F). 2a ed. Genève: ISO, 1987, 11 p
!  INTERNATIONAL STANDARIZATION ORGANIZATION.
Information -Références bibliographiques. Partie 2:
Documents électroniques, documents ou parties de
documents. Norme international ISO 690-2: 1997
(F).Genève: ISO, 1997, 18 p
!  AENOR: Documentación. Referencias bibliograficas.
contenido, formas y estructura. UNE 50 104 94. Madrid:
AENOR, 1994
!  AENOR. Documentación : recopilación de normas UNE /
AENOR. 2ª ed. Madrid: AENOR, 1997
!  Consulte las ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic
Description) para los distintos tipos de documentos
!  Consulte las AACR (Anglo-American cataloguing rules)
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Web of Knowledge
! http://www.accesowok.fecyt.es/
"  http://www.accesowok.fecyt.es/factor
•  Science Citation Index
•  Título de la revista, ISSN, País, Lengua, índice
de impacto, Categoría, Ranking en el que se
encuentra al revista dentro de la categoría,
quartil, total de citas, citas por años, índice de
inmediatez…etc.
"  http://sauwok.fecyt.es/admin-apps/JCR/
JCR?SID=Z1L4JegkBM1pHAnJmDj
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Metabuscadores
! http://www.springerlink.com/
! Metabuscador de recursos
bibliográficos de UPM (Ingenio)
"  http://ingenio.upm.es/V/?func=find-db-1
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Metabuscadores
! INGENIO Metabuscador de recursos
electrónicos de la biblioteca de la
UPM:http://metalib-
upm.greendata.es:8331/V/
P4LIRB7QDEPXI3KAMADTI4L2DTK67
MI4RPM6TU42L3V22B5HKX-40541?
FUNC=QUICK-1&pds_handle=GUEST
! Para conocer más sobre
INGENIO:http://www.eui.upm.es/
biblio/intranet/FOLLETOS%20PDF/
DIPTICO-INGENIO.pdf
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Reference Managers
! RefWorks
"  http://www2.upm.es/portal/site/institucional/
menuitem.e29ff8272ddfb41943a75910dffb
46a8/?
vgnextoid=177dc8e32d9c9110VgnVCM10
000009c7648aRCRD
! JabRef
"  http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
! Papers
"  http://mekentosj.com/papers/
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LaTeX
! LaTeX distribution:
"  http://miktex.org/
! Integrated LaTeX environments
"  Linux
•  http://kile.sourceforge.net/
"  Windows
•  LEd http://www.latexeditor.org/
•  http://www.winedt.com/
"  Mac
•  http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/
"  All platforms
•  http://www.tug.org/texworks/
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Science Citation Index. Artificial

Intelligence
!  AI MAGAZINE, Quarterly, ISSN: 0738-4602,
AMER ASSOC ARTIFICIAL INTELL
!  APPLIED INTELLIGENCE, Bimonthly, ISSN:
0924-669X, SPRINGER
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How to Research &

Javier Soriano, PhD.

Computer Networks and Web Technologies Lab.

Writing and publising research papers

Research talks and paper presentation

Writing a grant proposal

Responsible conduct in research

Phases of the Systematic Literature

• A method to report reliable conclusions

Phase 1: Planning the review

Phase 2: Conducting the review

Phase 3: Reporting the review

! Results and discussion

Papers communicate ideas

! Your goal: to infect the mind of your

Writing papers: Model 1

Writing papers: Model 2

! Forces us to be clear, focused

The purpose of your paper

! … from your head to your reader’s head

The purpose of your paper

! Your reader does not have a WizWoz

Conveying the idea

• My idea works (details, data)

APA editorial style: Research

APA editorial style: Major Sections

APA editorial style: Sections should

APA editorial style: Levels of

APA editorial style: Title Page

APA editorial style: Abstract

! A concise summary (maximum 250

The introduction (1 page)

...and that is all

Describe the problem

State your contributions

State your contributions

We describe the We study its We have used

We give the syntax We prove that the We have built a GUI

No “rest of this paper is…”

APA editorial style: Introduction

! Outlines for the reader the logic of the

Referencing the Work

! The abstract should not contain cites

No related work yet!

Your Related Your

No related work yet

Reviewer: I feel Problem 1: describing alternative

The payload of your paper

! “Consider a bufircuated semi-lattice D,

The payload of your paper

! Introduce the problem, and your idea,

And only then present the general case

Example right away

Conveying the idea

! Explain it as if you were speaking to

! Your introduction makes claims

APA editorial style: Method

! Includes a detailed description of the

APA editorial style: Results

! Should include a summary of the

APA editorial style: Tables

! Tables are numbered consecutively ie

APA editorial style: Figures

•  A method to report reliable conclusions

! Results and discussion

! Your goal: to infect the mind of your

! Forces us to be clear, focused

! … from your head to your reader’s head

! Your reader does not have a WizWoz

•  My idea works (details, data)

! A concise summary (maximum 250

! Outlines for the reader the logic of the

! The abstract should not contain cites

! “Consider a bufircuated semi-lattice D,

! Introduce the problem, and your idea,

! Explain it as if you were speaking to

! Your introduction makes claims

! Includes a detailed description of the

! Should include a summary of the

! Tables are numbered consecutively ie

! Figures are numbered consecutively

! Giving credit to others does not

! Failing to give credit to others can kill

! The interpretation of your study

!  Every study mentioned in the paper should be

!  Chapter in an edited book:

!  Unpublished doctoral dissertation or master s

! Start early. Very early.

! Get your paper read by as many

! Every review is gold dust. Be (truly) grateful

! Submit by the deadline

! To achieve a good presentation ensure

! If you remember nothing else: