IMSS005Computer Science Seminar

Lecture 3

Citation and ReferencesPreparing Figures and Tables Presentation Skill

Citation and References

Am I writing properly?

If you have committed plagiarism, you will be given F grade regardless of your presentation.

Citation When I read students' work, I can quickly spot any p

otential plagiarism since the writing style is different from one sentence to another.

If you are weak in English, it is even more obvious. There are also software which can be used to detec

t plagiarism. So, Don't take that risk! Besides, your thesis or paper could be made availa

ble on the Internet at later stage. You could be telling to the whole world that you ha

ve copied someone's work.

Citation

Proper referencing is very important for all students.

Without proper referencing, You can be accused of plagiarism. You will also be disqualified for your

thesis defense. It is a very serious offense.

Citation

Always quote somebody's words. For example, if you want to use a

definition from a book, you can write something like this: David [1] A workflow management system

as "a kind of intelligent program". References

[1] David. An interesting book on workflow management. Springer, 2006.

Citation If you want to repeat someone's idea, you

have to rewrite it in your own words and you have to cite the reference which contains that idea. For example, you want to borrow the idea of

David and use it in your thesis. You can write something like: David [1] argues that a workflow management

system is kind of dumb and naive program with little or no intelligence.

References [1] David. An interesting book on workflow management. Springer,

2006.

Citation If the reference (in square bracket) is

crossed out, the remaining sentence, including punctuation, must still be correct.

Examples: David [1] argued that … The system developed by David [1] is… AI has been effective as David [1] claims… In contrast, David [1] has reported that…

Citation If there are more than one authors:

Wellman et al. [144] have proposed a competition framework for intelligent agents.

References [144] M. P. Wellman, A. Greenwald, P. Stone, and P. R. Wurman. The 2001 tr

ading Agent competition. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-02), pages 935-941, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2002.

Citation Where to put citation:

Decide whether names, concept (term) or dates are important. If names are important, then insert after the

names. e.g. David [1]

If dates are important, then insert after date. e.g. …discovered in 1980 [1].

If concept (term) is important, then insert after the concept. e.g. Fuzzy Logic [1]

Citation If you are introducing a term, you must cite at the

first appearance of the term in your thesis/report.

e.g. In your report, if you talk about Fuzzy Logic, you should cite the most prominent/earliest reference that first address/invent Fuzzy Logic.

Fuzzy Logic [6] allows reasoning based on partial set membership rather than crisp set membership.

References [6] Zadeh, L. Outline of a new approach to the analysis of complex system

and decision process, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC-3(1), 28-44. 1973.

Citation

Consistent: If you are writing names in abbreviation, then write entrie

s in abbreviation. E.g., do not write Yain-Whar Si in one entry and Y-W Si in another entry.

If you cite more than one paper of an author, then it is even more obvious. [144] M. P. Wellman, A. Greenwald, P. Stone, and P. R. Wurman. The 2001 trading Ag

ent competition. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-02), pages 935-941, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2002.

[145] M. P. Wellman and P. R. Wurman. Real time issues for Internet auctions. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Workshop on Dependable and Real-time E-commerce Systems (DARE-98), Denver, Colorado, USA, June 1998. Available from ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/people/wellman/dare98.ps, accessed 6-Aug-2004.

The same for other entries, for instance, "Pages" and "pp", "5th" or "Fifth", "Sept" or "September".

Citation

Sufficient Information: Each reference entry "must" contain sufficient

information so that people can locate that reference. 

E.g. do you have following information in your reference? Name of authors, title of the article, Name of Journal, Book, proceedings Volume no, issue no, Page numbers Year Publisher

What to cite Cite only significant published references:

Journals and transactions (e.g. ACM, IEEE) Conference proceedings Workshop proceedings Books

Avoid unpublished data, theses, and homepages from Internet (e.g. WikiPedia). Cite them only if such references seem

absolutely essential and cannot be avoided. Otherwise, do not cite them!

Citation style Author-date style

In the text or document Surname of the author and year of publication E.g., (Abramson & Watson, 2003) For 4 names or above, use first author and

et al. E.g., (Abramson et al., 2003)

List of references Listed in alphabetical order of the surnames

of the authors, then year.

Citation style

Numerical style with abbreviation In the text or document

Each citation is given a unique number E.g., in a previous study [3, 10].

List of references Not listed alphabetically, but in numerical

orders

IEEE style?

Last words

Do not insult the authors in your literature review: e.g. Lawrence [1] totally overlooked the

issues of ….. Instead, you may write

The approach proposed by Lawrence [1] does not take into account …

Examples

Web site or Homepage from the Internet: [1] Auction Sentry. http://

www.auctionsentry.com, accessed 6-Aug-2004.

Examples

Software: [5] CPN Tools, Computer Tool for Coloured Petri Nets.

http://wiki.daimi.au.dk: 8000/cpntools/cpntools.wiki, accessed 6-Aug-2004.

Examples

Technical Specification from the Internet: [10] FIPA Communicative Act Library Specification.

http://www.fipa.org/specs/ fipa00037/, accessed 6-Aug-2004.

Examples

Journal: [36] P. Anthony and N. R. Jennings. Developing a bid

ding agent for multiple heterogeneous auctions. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2(3):185-217, 2003.

[38] M. Beer, M. d'Inverno, M. Luck, N. Jennings, C. Preist, and M. Schroeder. Negotiation in multi-agent systems. Knowledge Engineering Review, 14(3):285-289, September 1999.

Examples Conference and workshop proceedings:

[92] K. Larson and T. W. Sandholm. An alternating offers bargaining model for computationally limited agents. In Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 135-142, Bologna, Italy, 2002. ACM.

[94] F. Maraninchi. Argonaute: Graphical description, semantics and verification of reactive systems by using a process algebra. In J. Sifakis, editor, International Workshop on Automatic Verification Methods for Finite State Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 38-53. Springer Verlag, Grenoble, France, June 1989.

Examples

Technical Report: [116] I. Rahwan, P. McBurney, and L. Sonenberg. Towards

a theory of negotiation strategy (a preliminary report). Technical Report ULCS-03-008, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, May 2003. Available at http://www.csc.liv.ac. uk/research/techreports/tr2003/ulcs-03-008.ps, accessed 6-Aug-2004.

Examples

Book: [133] J. M. Spivey. The Z Notation: A Reference Manu

al. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, 2nd edition, 1992.

Examples

PhD Thesis: [138] A. H. M. ter Hofstede. Information Modelling in

Data Intensive Domain. PhD thesis, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 1993.

Special cases

Same authors, same year, different titles? C.M. Vong. Paper 1. …, 2006a. C.M. Vong. Paper 2. …, 2006b. To cite:

(Vong, 2006a; Vong, 2006b)

Preparing Figures and Tables

Using industry standard notation Remember, a "good" picture is worth a t

housand words. A "good" picture is not a picture with me

aningless notationsnotations. Whenever you draw a diagram,

you should use well recognized notations from the computer science area.

E.g, you should use DFD, UML,..etc and should strictly follow the syntax.

Assigning meaningful description All figures, tables, and graphs should bea

r meaningful description. With clear and well-explained legend.

For instance, it is "useless" to give such descriptions: Figure 1. My system Table 2. Performance of the system

Citing figures and tables in your thesis/research proposal if you have inserted a figure/table in your article,

then you must cite it somewhere. E.g., if you have a figure called "Figure 9", then somewhere i

n your text, you should cite something like this: A workflow model of the library system is depicte

d in Figure 9. Note that the above citation (the above sentence) m

ust appear before figure 9 in your document. That means you have to talk about figure 9 before the figure

appears. That will allow your reader to understand what is in the fi

gure before actually interpreting it.

Final note If you want to use someone's figures/tabl

es in your article, you must ask for permission from the copyright owner.

If it is granted, you have to state in the figure/table description that the figure/table is used by the permission of the original author.

Presentation

Content

Adequate introduction Adequate background Key points emphasized Presentation well structured

Presentation Skills

Presentation ≠Reading an article In preparing a presentation

Write only main points Not all details

The details are explained by you

Main points For reminding the speakers For giving simple idea to audiences

Presentation Skills

Fewer words More diagrams / animations

Keep in mind: A picture is worth a thousand words

Presentation Skills

Preparation for Q&A Imagine you are audiences

After reading/listening the presentation, What questions will you ask? Then prepare these questions (of course

the answer too) for yourselves.