TJTS505: Master's Thesis Seminar

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TJTS505: Master's Thesis Seminar Lecture 7: Mini thesis I Shuaiqiang wang Department of CS-IS, JYU

Structure of a thesis - 1 Introduction (A4 plan) Concepts and problems Motivation Research questions and objectives Methods Structure of the thesis (not included in A4 plan) Literature review Brief introduction: concepts, methods, objectives Review and analyze literatures related to Topics and viewpoints Topics and approaches (Technique-oriented) Conclusions of the literatures from your perspective

Structure of a thesis - 2 Methodology Research objectives and methods Data collections and experimental settings Analysis Results and observations Discussion Research questions Compare your observations with existing results in literatures Consistent/Inconsistent/new Reliability and validity Conclusion Summary and further research

Mini thesis Results of the literature review Describe your theoretical background and previous research study Almost finish all of the writing of the literature review Structure of the thesis Presents a detailed framework, which is then used master's thesis in constructive or empirical part.

Review literature for Management-oriented thesis Your topics and concepts The viewpoints (categorize them!) Technique-oriented thesis Your topics and your problem (Place your work in the context of existing literature) main methods (categorize them!) Literatures related your specific techniques Emphasize their conflicts or limitations In conclusions, or even in each subsection if possible Motivate your research

Management oriented thesis Research questions Your hypotheses Your research methods Interview? Questionnaire? Collecting data from social media? Data mining supports? Specify your methods Designed and propagated your questionnaires Chose and sent interview invitations Knew how to collect data and started already Designed data mining algorithms and started coding Expected Results New conclusions? Solve conflicts? Support old conclusions? Angles for analysis of the results

Technique oriented thesis Research questions Problem formulations Mathematical definition Similarity to and difference with related problems (optional) Your Methods (Models) Mathematical inference Theoretical results for accuracy (error bound), efficiency, convergence Similarity to and advantages against similar methods(optional) Experimental settings Online experiments: Similar to management oriented methods Offline: Datasets? Baselines? Measures?... Report experimental results Answer all research questions Demonstrate advantages of all your techniques/tricks in your methods

homework Try to make progress on your literature review and mini- thesis Email: gpandey_01@yahoo.com Subject of your email: TJTS505: Mini thesis + Your full name Deadline: Before next class Demonstrate your work Oral presentation with slides Time: Next class

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