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Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Faculty of Computer Science
PhD in Computer Science
Home page of the course
Research Methods
32nd PhD Cycle - February 2017
Course Overview
The course consists of six modules, taught in six different weeks by different
lecturers from the Faculty of Computer Science.
Each module foresees two lectures, one at the beginning of the week and one at
the end of the week.
- Module 1:
Introduction to research and
scientific paper reading and writing -
D. Calvanese (30/1/2017 - 03/2/2017)
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- What is Research?
- Research in Computer Science
- Selection of PhD topic
- Reading scientific papers
- How to write a scientific paper
- Module 2: Good scientific writing style -
E. Franconi (6/2/2017 - 10/2/2017)
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- Module 3:
Presenting scientific work -
M. Montali (13/2/2017 - 17/2/2017)
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Example presentations:
- Module 4:
Empirical/experimental
CS research methods -
J. Gamper (20/2/2017 - 24/2/2017)
- Module 5:
How to write a research plan -
S. Helmer (27/2/2017 - 3/3/2017)
- Module 6:
Research evaluation -
W. Nutt (6/3/2017 - 10/3/2017)
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- Peer reviewing
- Bibliometrics
Course Material
Writing for Computer Science (3rd Edition). Justin Zobel. Springer.
2015.
ISBN: 978-1-4471-6638-2 (Print), 978-1-4471-6639-9 (Online).
Electronic edition available via the unibz library through SpringerLink.
Additional useful material
On Writing and Scholarly Publishing
On Reading
On Doing Research
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