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General Information

Goal of the seminar

The goal of this seminar is to conduct a sound literature review on a specific topic and present a state of the art report (STAR). A member of the teaching staff will guide and help students in acquiring the scientific material and structuring the report. A written report in the form of a scientific paper will be produced. A draft of this report will be given to an reviewer among the other students, who will have to evaluate various aspects of the work. The quality of the review will be graded and the review will help your colleague to improve the report before final submission. The students are also expected to present their work in a 20 minutes talk during the semester. Topics for the seminar will be available in the initial meeting. Students have the option to work in groups of two.

Tasks for the students

Students are expected to fulfill certain requirements of the seminar. Teaching staff will evaluate and grade students based on the following output.
  • A list of literature, that a student intends to review is to be submitted within the first 14 days of the start of the seminar. Students are not expected to provide a comprehensive list. This document will be regarded as an official seminar registration of the student.
  • A written report in the form of a scientific paper. We strongly encourage that the reports are composed in LaTeX. The report must have a minimum of 8 written pages per student. Depending on the student and the supervisor, the used language is either German or English, with English as a preference.
  • It is mandatory to attend the lecture "Forschung und wie sie funktioniert" of Professor Eduard Gröller, the lecture "Wie halte ich einen Vortrag" of Professor Werner Purgathofer, and the lecture "Wie schreibt man eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit?" of Professor Michael Wimmer. You can ask for a waiver in case you have already attended one of these talks.
  • Produce a draft of your report and review a draft from one of your colleagues.
  • A 20 minutes presentation in English language followed by a 5 minutes discussion. A template for the PowerPoint presentation is provided in the Link's section. The slides are to be submitted to the teaching staff after the talk.
  • Active discussion participation is expected after the presentation of other students.

Plagiarism

All the literature that is reviewed during the seminar has to be placed in the reference section of the report. You can have further information about referencing here. We are all expected to abide by professional scientific ethics and make sure that the work is not plagiarized in any sense.

Important Dates

  • Initial meeting of the seminar will be on the 15.03.2012 at 15:00 in the seminar room of the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms.
  • 29.03.2012 23:59: List of literature submission deadline. This will constitute as the official registration.
  • Attend the following talks (if you did not attend them already):
    • 24.04.2012 at 17:00: "Forschung und wie sie funktioniert" (Prof.Gröller) in seminar room E186.
    • 17.04.2012 at 16:00: "Wie halte ich einen Vortrag?" (Prof.Purgathofer) in seminar room E186.
    • 26.03.2012 at 15:30: "Wie schreibt man eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit?" (Prof. Wimmer), in seminar room E186.
  • 03.06.2012 23:59: Draft submission deadline.
  • 04.06.2012 23:59 Receipt of paper for review.
  • 10.06.2012 23:59: Review submission deadline.
  • 11.06.2012 23:59 Receipt of review of own paper.
  • Talks will be held on the 14.06.2012 from 9:00 to 17:00 in the seminar room of the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms. Presence of the students is mandatory.
  • 30.09.2012 23:59: Final version submission deadline.

Grading Criteria

  • The quality of the written report is worth 50% of the grade
  • The quality of the talk is worth 30% of the grade
  • The quality of the review is worth 10% of the grade
  • Attendance during the talks is worth 5% of the grade
  • Active discussion participation is worth 5% of the grade

Topics

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Miscellaneous

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