Learning outcomes

  • Skills to perform bibliographic resarch
  • Critical appraisal of the sources
  • Writing a scientific state-of-the-art
  • Presenting scientific results 
 
 
 

Goals

The main objective of the personal project is to carry out an in-depth study related to an information system issue. Students take up a project that is offered by the professors of the Faculty of Computer Science. The project must reflect an understanding of a research problem (definition, context, motivation, research questions, etc.) and a good knowldege of the related work.

 
 
 

Content

The project involves:

  1. Scientific research: problem definition, search of scientific materials, reading of a research paper.
  2. Writing: problem formulation, document organization, writing of a related work, awareness of plagiarism.
  3. Oral presentation: slides contents, slides organizations, oral expression.
 
 
 

Teaching methods

The course is a short ex-cathedra introduction on scientific methods, writing and presentation. The work is mainly done in the state-of-the-art essay under guidance of the supervisor.

 
 
 

Assessment method

  • 25% for the reading summary and problematisation (in January)
  • 50% on the written state-of-the-art essay
  • 25 % on the presentation
 
 
 

Sources, references and any support material

  • Saunders, Mark N. K.; Bristow, Alexandra; Thornhill, Adrian and Lewis, Philip (2019). Understanding research philosophy and approaches to theory development. In: Research Methods for Business Students, 8th edition. Harlow: Pearson Education, pp. 128–171.
  • Felderer, Michael and Guilherme Horta Travassos, eds. Contemporary Empirical Methods in Software Engineering. Springer, 2020.
  • Paul Ralph et al. (2020). Empirical Standards for Software Engineering Research. arXiv:2010.03525. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2010.03525
 
 

Language of instruction

French