Scientific Literature Analysis and Reporting Seminar

1. Objective • Advance your knowledge • Practice to analyze and report open scientific literature • Practice • Critical Thinking • Teamwork & Specialization • Scientific writing • Interdisciplinary work • Documentation • Optional: find your future research direction

2. Tasks • Create or join a group • Choose a topic • Register your topic and group by sending an email to the instructor • Deadline • Plan • Create a task list, responsibilities, time table • Tasks must be distributed among group members fairly (equal workload) • The fair distribution of tasks and your individual engagement will be monitored 2

3. Tasks • Conduct a research • Find related papers • Discuss your search results • Read, analyze, and summarize them • Discuss your results with your instructor regularly (according to your time table) • NOTE: this is an iterative process 3

4. Tasks • Write a report • Discuss your report with the instructor before the final submission • Write it in the form of a scientific survey • Discuss your drafts (2-3) with your instructor before delivery • Do not underestimate the time/effort required for this task • Deliver your report on time (check the course page for important dates) • NOTE: this is an iterative process 4

5. Tasks • Prepare slides • Prepare your slides. Plan at least 3 iterations (draft, revision, final) • Do not wait until the last week. • Discuss form and content of your slides within your group/with other students • Discuss your drafts (2-3) and your final slides with your instructor before the presentation. Check the course page for important dates • Do not underestimate the time/effort required for preparing slides • Present your work • Practice before • Be professional • Note: 15min +/- 1min 5

6. Hints • Project the topic/your findings on the Iranian EC Market • What fits? What is not appropriate for the Iranian market? • Law: something missing? • Barriers: social, legal, infrastructure • Criticise what you read • Follow scientific working principals when • conducting your research • preparing your report • presenting your results 6

7. Deliverables • D1: Report • One report per group • Write in the form of a scientific survey • Check ACM Computing Surveys for examples and details at http://csur.acm.org/author_info.html • 10-15 pages • Follow the ACM journals/transactions style • http://www.acm.org/publications/latex_style/v2-acmsmall.zip • D2: Slides • Style is your choice. It should be readable / usable • 6-8 slides • 15 min + 5 min discussion • D3: Oral Presentation and discussion • Is mandatory, • but will not affect your seminar grade (university regulations!) 7

8. Rules • The whole group will fail, if • The report was not delivered by the deadline • The slides were not delivered by the deadline • The work was not presented at the workshop • Delivery • per email: shirehjini@sharif.edu; max email size must be < 2 megabyte • per upload: server details will be made available on the course page • in person: create a CD (check for viruses) and deliver in person right after the class • It is your responsibility to make sure that I have received your deliverables (e.g., no guarantee if mail server was out of service, limit exceeded, internet was down, etc.) 8

9. Rules • Your seminar grade will be calculated (total pts 100) • 50 points for your report • 25 points for your slides • 25 points for participation • meetings with the instructor according to your task plan • Negative marks • 5 points if you are late (>5min) to a scheduled meeting • Exception: you announce it via email at least one day in advance or 1h in advance if you want to call me (your responsibility, if my phone is off or I do not pick up) • 10 points if you do not come at all • 5 points if you do not finish your presentation on time (1min tolerance) 9