How to work with Literature and write Scientific Material

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1 How to work with Literature and write Scientific Material proudly presented by Leonardo A. Martucci Sascha Hauke Technische Universität Darmstadt

2 CONTENT What s a scientific publication? Finding (good) references Correct referencing Writing your own paper Reviewing papers *parts of this slide set are based on material provided by Guido Rößling 2/21

insight of a scientific problem (solution) OR a survey of a

3 What s a scientific publication? Basically a message With scientific background Offer a new insight of a scientific problem (solution) OR a survey of a research field The message is a claim That needs to be evaluated AND validated /21

4 How does a publication looks like? Books Surveys (mostly) about a topic Theses Doctoral dissertations and Master theses Very focused scientific work and finding Articles and Papers Articles appear in Journals Papers in Conferences, Symposia, Workshops New findings and concepts 4/21

5 How does a publication looks like? Standards and RFC Define the common ground Thoroughly reviewed Published by a standardization body Technical Reports A focused scientific work White papers published by vendors Sometimes biased Not reviewed 5/21

6 Articles and Papers Journal Articles Quality mostly depends on the Journal Good Journal Good Article Sometimes articles are outdated Conferences and Symposia Quality is usually connected to the Conference Good Conference Good Paper The most recent research achievements Workshops Mostly for work in progress Good for discussing new ideas 6/21

7 Standards and RFC Standards relate to a given technology ITU T standards ITU is the UN agency for ICT standards ITU T defines standards for telecom e.g. the X series IEEE standards Industrial standards, including ICT e.g. IEEE 802 standard family IETF Internet related standards i.e. RFC e.g. IP addressing scheme TCP, TLS protocols, routing Always pay attention on the RFC status 7/21

8 References and Referencing Refer back to the original source of information For others to identify the foundations of your work Giving credit, when credit is due Not doing so is REALLY bad practice aka plagiarism 8/21

9 What should I reference? Scientific publications Articles, papers, books Standards RFC, ITU, IEEE, W3C, etc. + All other non scientific sources Surveys Magazines Reports Can I reference Wikipedia? or any other online material? YES, but mind: not reliable (or stable) information sources 9/21

10 Writing a Scientific Publication First, define the message Objective of your publication define the area of research Read the related work Define the work around your work Finding out what has been done Implement your idea Evaluate your idea Validate your idea Survey the related work Evaluate differences Identify trade offs Write your publication 10/21

11 Your Work, Your Message Finding the message The most difficult part (!) Also, the creative one going beyond the state of the art! A message that needs science Scientific foundations + challenges can be found in the related work 11/21

12 Related Work? Where? How? Related Work? Where? For the initial literature ask a researcher in the field it will give you a broad idea about the area Check publication repositories ACM Digital Lib IEEE Xplore Google Scholar Academic Search Conference directories Authors home pages Other sources from the reference lists REPEAT 12/21

13 Related Work and Relevance Related Work Identify the relevant sources Evaluating the importance of a publication 1. Read the abstract 2. Check the reference list 3. Read the conclusions 4. Read the rest Yes Yes Yes Good Good Good No Next Paper Paper Read Related work will Compare your results against their results Be used as input for a survey 13/21

14 Referencing: doing it right A reference looks like this: authors title publisher date page number how was it published (proceedings) there are also other reference styles 14/21

15 Referencing with BibTeX Complete entries using BibTeX DBLP (Uni Trier), ACM Digital Library, author = {Leonardo A. Martucci and Markulf Kohlweiss and Christer Andersson and Andriy Panchenko}, title = {Self-certified Sybil-free pseudonyms}, booktitle = {WISEC}, year = {2008}, pages = { }, ee = { crossref = {wisec/2008} editor = {Virgil D. Gligor and Jean-Pierre Hubaux and Radha Poovendran}, title = {Proceedings of the First ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security, WISEC 2008, Alexandria, VA, USA, March 31 - April 02, 2008}, booktitle = {WISEC}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2008}, isbn = { } } In the text, you just need to use: \cite{martuccikap08} 15/21

16 Write your publication 16/21

17 Structure is the Key! Always have a good paper structure Organize your ideas Organize your papers Define it BEFORE starting to add text Plan the content of each section Writing skills No one learns without doing it General Guidelines: Be concise Be precise 17/21

18 Reviews and Reviewing 18/21

Peer reviews Peer reviews Peers review your work and verify its general quality Evaluate the work before being published Offer suggestions to improve the

19 Peer reviews Peer reviews Peers review your work and verify its general quality Evaluate the work before being published Offer suggestions to improve the work (!) How s quality defined in a publication?* Novelty Soundness Evaluation + Validation Completeness Readability * it sometimes depend on the venue 19/21

20 Writing a Review What to write Positive and negative aspects of the work Constructive criticism (if possible) Offer suggestions to improve the paper e.g. + literature Suggest an overall evaluation of the work It is NOT the reviewer s work to to correct the publication! to point typos (unless if it is one or two) 20/21

21 Summary What s a scientific publication? Finding (good) references Correct referencing Writing your own paper Reviewing papers 21/21

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