CS831 Project Outline
Deadlines
Due at the beginning of class:
| 10% |
Written proposal deadline: |
February 14, 2002 (Feb. 15 by noon) |
| 40% |
Final written report: |
April 15, 2002 |
| 10% |
Final oral report: |
April 15-16, 2002 |
Proposal
Typewritten and proofread:
- Statement of problem
- Examples of problem that will be solved and approximate form of solution
- complete (hand-derived) examples
- Approach to Problem
- general approach
- discussion of relevant literature
- outline of implementation
- Criteria for evaluating success of the project
- Schedule
- List of Cited References
Final Project Report:
Two parts, typewritten and proofread:
- Description
- Appendices
Description
In the format of a descriptive paper (can be modelled on research papers you have read)
- Introduction
- to project
- to document (describe organization of paper)
- Statement of problem and examples (adapted from proposal)
- Approach
- can be divided into several sections
- include algorithms
- detailed examples might be here instead of previous section
- can include theoretical analyses of algorithms
- Results
- sample results and discussion of test results
- tabular or graphical comparisons with published results are very appropriate for empirical work
- most/all actual results will most likely be in the appendix
- Discussion of related work and comparison
- Limitations and possible extensions
- Conclusions
- summarize what was achieved
- relate back to success criteria listed in the proposal
- relate to introduction
Appendices
- User's Manual -- if project includes a program
- tutorial guide, can be reduced if online help is present
- Implementation Manual -- if project includes a program
- for the next programmer who will work on the code
- Printout of complete program -- if project includes a program
- source code must be well documented
- guidelines for format of C program are available
- Experimental Results
- print out of complete test runs
- tables of experimental results
Final Project Report
- Prepare a polished 20 minute oral presentation of your project
- I recommend at most 15 slides/transparencies
- describe the problem, the approach, and the results
- use diagrams and graphs wherever possible
- you are required to use the data projector or overheads, rather than blackboard presentation
