Computer Science Department Masters Thesis Presentation 591 Title

Computer Science Department Master’s Thesis Presentation (591) Title: Thesis Template by Candidate: Jane Doe

Computer Science Department Title: Thesis Template Advisor nd 2 Reader Chair. Person : : Jane Da. Prof, Ph. D. John Da. Read, Ph. D. : Jane La. Prof, Ph. D.

Contents: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Introduction Literature Review Design Methodology Implementation Results and Conclusions Contributions Future Work References

1. Introduction o The Section titles (on the previous slide) are tentative o This Section could be also called Problem Definition or Problem Specification

1. Introduction o In this Section you would gently introduce the issue you are planning to address. o Start with the Background of the Problem o Describe the Problem is some detail

1. Introduction o Provide some current solutions. o End this Section with the paragraph stating that your project addresses (solves) this introduced problem in some efficient manner

1. Introduction o While writing make sure that the Thesis is ‘readable; ’ having a smooth segue from one paragraph to another

1. Introduction o You are writing a scientific paper in IEEE format o Each statement must be either: i. A common knowledge ii. A fact presented in another paper (reference to that paper needed [1]) iii. A fact that is proven by your narrative

2. Literature Review o This Section can be called ‘State of the Art’. o In this section review each paper/document that you think is related to your problem and/or solution. o Present only papers that are relevant and if possible very recent.

2. Literature Review o Google Scholar is a good source [2]. o Ask your advisor to obtain copies of papers that you need. o Reviewing Web online content is also desirable. (Especially software libraries and tools).

3. Design o In this Section you would address the idea/concept of the solution for your research problem o Typically you would develop a system with underlying modules.

3. Design o Describe the system specifications o Describe the modules’ functionalities. o Do use graphics to depict the system.

3. Design Figure 1. my System Design (deliberately blurred)

3. Design o Describe each module from the graphics. o Create additional diagrams: UML, Visio….

4. Methodology o In this section you would discuss the methods on how you would proceed with developing your system as a solution to your problem. o How do you plan to develop the system and its modules?

4. Methodology o For each module (from 3. Design) explain how you plan to develop it so it satisfies all the requirement specifications. o Any specific Platform, Hardware, API used.

5. Implementation o In this section you would discuss the technical details of your implementation o List your implementation platform details o Discuss pieces of your code. There is no need to discuss all the code: Select only important and interesting code snippets to discuss

5. Implementation o Did you encounter any difficulties: list and discuss those. Also describe how did you overcome the technical obstacles. o Describe code runs and types of code tests. o Code manual/usage pages would be useful

5. Implementation To calculate z we use calculate() function: x = 3 y = 4 z = calculate(x, y) Figure 2. my Function Call (deliberately ambiguous)

6. Results and Conclusion o Start with describing your data collection process. o Why this specific data? o How much data? o The quality of raw data (if any) and the quality of collected data.

6. Results and Conclusion o The details of the results collection process. (How did you generate/collect your resulting data? ) o Did you automate the testing process, how o Summarize your results in a tabular format

6. Results and Conclusion Table 1. Resulting Table (deliberately ambiguous) * 1 2 3 4 1 1 2 3 4 2 2 4 6 8 3 3 6 9 12 Table 1. shows the results generated by my system program. 4 4 8 12 16

6. Results and Conclusion o Each table needs to be discussed, and the conclusions about the presented results drawn. o If not sure, you can say “we believe that there is a correlation between the results as shown…. ”

6. Results and Conclusion o End the Chapter with the final conclusions; the conclusions about all the resulting data and tables.

7. Contributions o Summarize who (or what) do you think would be the beneficiary of your provided solution. o Summarize how would that entity benefit from provided solution

8. Future Work o Here you would provide possible improvements to your solution. o Include topics that you wanted to try but did not have time to try it out

9. References [1] E. D. Da. Master, Systems and Others, in Journal of Knowledge, p 120 -122, 2018. [2] Google Scholar, retrieved from st https: //scholar. google. com on April 1 2018.

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