http://www.inf.unibz.it/~calvanese/teaching/2023-01-PhD-RM/

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Faculty of Computer Science
PhD in Computer Science

National PhD in Artificial Intelligence

Home page of the course
Research Methods

38th PhD Cycle - January - February 2023

Course Coordinator: Diego Calvanese


The lectures are taught in presence at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and are also broadcast online via MS Teams.
Students who intend to participate remotely should contact Diego Calvanese so as to be added to the MS Team of the course.


Course Overview

The course consists of six units, taught in six different weeks by different lecturers from the Faculty of Computer Science. Each unit foresees two lectures, one at the beginning of the week and one at the end of the week.
Unit 1: Presenting scientific work - Marco Montali (9/1/2023 - 13/1/2023)
Example presentations: Schedule:

Unit 2: Introduction to research and scientific paper reading and writing - Diego Calvanese (16/1/2023 - 20/1/2023)
  1. What is Research?
  2. Research in Computer Science
  3. Selection of PhD topic
  4. Reading scientific papers
  5. How to write a scientific paper
Schedule:

Unit 3: How to write a research plan - Antonella De Angeli (23/1/2023 - 27/1/2023)
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Unit 4: Good scientific writing style - Enrico Franconi (31/1/2023 - 3/2/2023)
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Unit 5: Research evaluation - Werner Nutt (6/2/2023 - 10/2/2023)
  1. Bibliometrics
  2. Peer reviewing
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Unit 6: Empirical/experimental CS research methods - Mattia Fumagalli (13/2/2023 - 17/2/2023)
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Assignments

Each unit foresees an assignment, which will be communicated to the students during the first lecture of the unit. In the time period between the first and second lecture of the unit, the students should complete their assignment, and (part of) the second lecture will be devoted to discussing the assignemnt.

The time estimated to complete each assignment is 19 hours, which, when added to the 6 hours required to atted the two lectures of the unit, results in 25 hours of work. These correspond to 1 ECTS credit. Hence, upon completion of all assignments, a student can be granted 6 ECTS credits.


Course Material

The slides used for each unit will be made available by the lecturer of the unit in the MS Teams channel for the course.

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

On Reading

On Scholarly Publishing

On Doing Research


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