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\title{Research plan for MSc Thesis in ??}

\author{
\IEEEauthorblockN{your name here}\\
\IEEEauthorblockA{Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy\\
}
}


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\section*{Basic Information}

\begin{itemize}
\item Title (preliminary): 
\item Link to project home page (if any): 
\item Start- and end-date: 
\item Work type (research / industrial, theoretical / empirical / applied): 
\item Courses completed at unibz relevant for the work: 
\end{itemize}


\section{Introduction and background}
Describe your research
\begin{itemize}
\item Identify the object of study
\item	State the problem
\item	Describe the context
\item	Identify the interested readers
\item Motivating example
\end{itemize}

\subsection{Aims and research questions }
\begin{itemize}
\item State your overall goal and derive the research question(s).
\item Foresee the impact of the results
\end{itemize}


\section{Related Work}

\begin{itemize}
\item Select the relevant papers  (eventually use PICO)
\begin{itemize}
\item        Same/similar OS (Population)
\item 	Same/similar method (perhaps the one you would like to use) (Intervention ? comparison)
\item 	Same/similar context 
\item 	Same/similar results (Outcome)
\item 	State the differences (in a table)
\item 	State the similarities (in the same table)
\end{itemize}
\item 	Write the literature review
\item 	List the selected relevant paper (using PICO and snowballing)
\item 	Weight them for relevance
\item 	Show the novelty of the your work (or the article?s work) proving some lack of knowledge
\item 	Describe the variety of sources
\item 	Let the door open to the existence of other important papers (perhaps not accessible or relevant to your work)
\item 	Categorize the papers (use for example the type of study as categorization)
\item 	Categorize the paper by the type of method
\item 	Consider whether the paper provides local or generalized results
\end{itemize}


\section{Expected outcomes }
Imagine possible solutions to you work,

\section{Research Methodology }
Use what we have seen in the lectures and the advise received for the midterm

\section{Risks}
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\caption{Risks hampering the full achievement of your research work}
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Risk 	& Possible solution & Probability guess\\
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\label{risks}
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\section{Plan}

Schematic schedule of your work. Use milestones and deadlines

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