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Session 1. Introduction, Assessment, and Logistics
Session 1A. MSc
Internet Software Systems, MSc in Security,
Conversion CS, and Intelligent Sys (Alan Sexton), Fri 18th June, 2010. 10:00-11:00.
Session 1B. MSc
in Advanced CS and MSc in Natural Computation
(Robert Hendley)),
Tues 22nd, 11:00-12:00.
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Mon July 4/2011
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Slides
for session 1A
Reference for session 1B
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Session 3. Information Searching
All MSc Programmes. (Dr Peter Hancox)
(Attendance
is optional for MSc Advanced Computer Science
(research stream with mini-projects) and MSc Natural Computation)
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Mechanical Engineering
Thu 21st July/2011
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Slides for Session 3
Session 3a. Information
Searching
Session 3b. Information
Retrieval with Inspec
Session 3c. Information
retrieval with Citation Indexes
Additional
references:
British Library
catalogue
Library of
Congress
catalogue
Cambridge
University Library catalogue
The following bibliographic databases are accessible from the University
network:
Inspec
http://www.engineeringvillage2.org
ACM Guide to Computing Literature
http://portal.acm.org/guide.cfm
Medline
http://gateway.ovid.com/autologin.html
Compendex/Engineering Index
http://www.engineeringvillage2.org
IEEE Xplore
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
The University Library ejournal
collection is accessed through:
http://www.elibrary.bham.ac.uk/
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Session
4. Advanced Processing, Formatting, and Referencing of Large Documents
(Courtesy sessions provided by the IT Training Unit at the
University of Birmingham. Ms. Sonia Lee Cooke. You should sign for either session 4a, 4b, or 4c. Signup
sheets will be posted near my office 112 CS)
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TBA
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Summary of course contents:
*Working with Styles
- Creating and modifying Styles using the toolbar and
dialogue box
- Keyboard shortcuts
* Working with Templates
- Creating a template based on a document
- Saving the document as a template
- Attaching a new template to an existing document
* Headings and structured documents
- Applying outline numbering to heading styles
- Editing a document using Outline view
- Navigating using document map
- Creating table of contents
* Working with Captions
- Inserting pictures and charts
- applying a caption to a picture, table and chart
* Creating Cross References
- Editing cross references
- Deleting cross references
* Working with Footnotes and Endnotes
- Inserting a footnote or endnote
- Editing footnotes and endnotes
- Finding the next footnote or endnote reference
number
* Setting Bookmarks within a document
- Displaying bookmarks
- Go to a specific bookmark
- Deleting a bookmark
* Manage and link sub and master documents with a consistent
style
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Session 6.
Systematic Evaluation of Contributions
Session
6a. Evaluating projects with substantial implementation and software
engineering elements (Dr Rami Bahsoon)
Session
6b. Evaluating projects with substantial research (TBA)
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Aug
23/2011
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Kitchenham et al.: recommended framework for
evaluating project contributions with substantial implementation (e.g.
tool) and software engineering elements.
Kitchenham, B. et al., DESMET: A Methodology for
evaluating software engineering methods and tools. IEE Computing and
Control Journal 8(3): 120-126. 1997
Other useful references/selected reading:
Basili, V.R., The Role of Experimentation in Software
Engineering: Past, Current, and Future. Proc. 18th Int. Conf. Software
Eng., IEEE Computer Soc. Press, Los Alamitos, Calif., March 1996.
Curtis et al.,
A Field Study of the Software Design Process for large systems. CACM
31(11): 1268-1287. 1988.
Mockus et al., A Case Study of Open Source
Software Development: The Apache Server. Proc. 22nd Int. Conf. Software Eng., ACM Press, March 2000.
Tichy, W., Should computer scientists experiment more?
IEEE Computer 31(5): 32-40.1998.
Zelkowitz, M. and Wallace, D. Experimental validation
in software engineering. IST 39:735-743. 1997.
Zelkowitz, M. and Wallace, D. Experimental models for validating
technology. IEEE Computer 31(5):23-31. 1998.
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