Literature search assignment

CS 390 (CAP), Interim 2022

Assignment: Perform a literature search in your project area.

• Develop your initial findings as an annotated hyperlinked list of relevant references (see below).
  Overview presentation in class Thu 1/6

  • 3-6 minute video
  • Include complete citations for each work
  • Annotation: brief (e.g., 1 sentence) contents/relevance for this presentation
  
  First submission Due Sun 1/9

• After feedback from the presentation and ongoing literature search as needed, develop a literature-review paper as a companion overview of your annotated list.
  First submission of preliminary literature-review paper (with updated annotated list) Due Wed 1/12

• Continue updating annotated list and paper as needed throughout the remainder of the term

• Final versions of annotated list and literature review paper due Mon 1/24

This is a team assignment, but all team members should contribute substantially to the effort.

Guidelines

• Your list of references should include

  • at least 12 items.

  • Some of these may be resources on the technologies you will use, but at least six items should focus primarily on the computer science.

  • A minimum of four items should be published papers in research journals or conferences sponsored or endorsed by one of the professional societies (ACM or IEEE/CS). Including more published research papers is better.

    Note: The most likely source for these items is one of the societies' digital libraries. St. Olaf has campus-wide access to the ACM digital library.

• Each item in your list should include:

  • Bibliographic reference consistent with ACM or IEEE/CS publication.

    Note: ACM style for references. A DOI is optional

  • A link to the actual document, when available

  • Annotations about the relevance of that item to your project.

    These annotations should start with a one- or two-sentence overview of the work, followed by specific comments that indicate how that work relates to your project. The more informed and insightful your comments, the better.

  • An indication of which team member discovered that item.

• The literature review paper should have the following structure.

  • Introduction to your project

    • Write a one-paragraph overview of your project for a general CS audience.

      • For the preliminary draft, you can just copy from another document such as the goals document

      • For later drafts, edit as necessary for a general CS audience, and to make sure that this project description sets a context for the annotated list sections you chose. For example, if you have a section of literature items on Kubernetes and containers, then this introduction should indicate how Kubernetes and containers relates to your project.

      The final version of this paragraph should be written in a style that could be appropriate for a scholarly paper.

    • Write a second paragraph indicating the background of the team at the beginning of this project. /p>

      • For example, if PDC is related to your project, indicate the initial background of team members in PDC, e.g., a person who took the course, or no experience on the team besides multicore computing in HD, etc.

      Write this paragraph for this background literature paper only - the audience could be Capstone prof and students. Use multiple paragraph breaks, bulleted lists, etc., if desired

  • At the start of each section of your annotated list, add a summary paragraph that discusses the items in that section in the context of your project.

    • Use a narrative style for a general CS research audience that tells the story of what has gone before, relative to your project. See the background literature sections for scholarly papers in CS for examples of this style.

    • The annotations for your literature items already provide overviews of the content of each literature item and its relevance for your project. This summary paragraph at the beginning of the section describes how findings or resources in that section's items fit together as historical and technical background for your project.

    • All the section summary paragraphs will be condensed into your scholarly paper's background literature section. For this literature review document, write expanded draft language for the scholarly paper to draw from.

  Divide the drafting of new paragraphs among all team members, and indicate authors, for individual writing feedback.