SIT340/740 Research and Development in Information Technology Assignment 1 (literature review) Guideline Assignment 1: Survey Report (20 marks) You will identify a specific area and conduct literature survey on this area. Then you will write a comprehensive survey report based on the literature survey. Due: 11:59pm, Friday, 09 December 2016 Submission: You must submit an electronic copy of your assignment either in Acrobat (.pdf) or Microsoft Word (.doc) via CloudDeakin. Delays caused by student's own computer downtime cannot be accepted as a valid reason for late submission without penalty. Students must plan their work to allow for both scheduled and unscheduled downtime. It is the student's responsibility to ensure that they understand the submission instructions. If you have ANY difficulties ask the Lecturer for assistance (prior to the submission date). Copying, Plagiarism: This is an individual assignment. You are not permitted to work as a part of a group when writing this assignment. Plagiarism is the submission of somebody else's work in a manner that gives the impression that the work is your own. For individual assignments, plagiarism includes the case where two or more students work collaboratively on the assignment. The School of Information Technology treats plagiarism very seriously. When it is detected, penalties are strictly imposed. Deakin University uses Turnitin as the program that allows you to check whether there is any unoriginal material in your work, please refer to http://www.deakin.edu.au/students/clouddeakin/helpguides/assessment/plagiarism. Additional Requirements and Notes 1. Any text, table, figure, and code adapted from any source must be clearly referenced. 2. All assignments must be submitted through CloudDeakin. Assignments will not be accepted through any other manner without prior approval. Students should note that this means that email and paper based submissions will ordinarily be rejected. 3. This assignment is due at 11:59 PM on Friday 9th of December and there is a 5% mark reduction for delay per day for a maximum of 5 days delay. The assignment submission will not be accepted after 11.59 PM on Wednesday 14th of December. Close of submissions on the due date and each day thereafter for penalties will occur at 11:59 pm Australian Eastern Time (UTC +10 hours) with Daylight Saving. 4. No extension will be granted. Page 1 of 5Guideline What is a literature survey? A literature survey is a description of the literature relevant to a particular field or topic. This is often the starting point of a research project. A critical literature survey is a critical assessment of the relevant literature. You will only be able to conduct your research unless you complete the literature survey. How does a literature survey differ from other assignments? The literature survey, like other forms of academic writing, has an introduction, body and conclusion, well-formed paragraphs, and a logical structure. However, in other kinds of academic writing, you use relevant literature to support the discussion of your research; in a literature survey, the literature itself is the subject of discussion. What counts as 'literature'? 'Literature' covers everything relevant that is written on a topic: books, journal articles, technical reports, theses and dissertations, etc. The important word is 'relevant'. Informal reference from website such as Wikipedia is normally not recognised as literature in academic writing. Check with your Lecturer when in doubt. Why do a literature survey? A literature survey gives an overview of the research field: what has already been said on the topic, who the key writers are, what the prevailing theories and hypotheses are, what questions are being asked, and what methodologies and methods are appropriate and useful. How many references to look for? This depends on what the literature survey is for, and what stage you are at in your studies. The minimum number of references for this assignment is 20 titles. How long should I write? The length of your literature survey should be around 2,500 words. How to write a literature survey? 1. Choose research topic Selecting a topic is possibly the most difficult part of doing research. Is it too big? Is it too narrow? Will I be able to find enough on it? Start by choosing a topic that you like or are curious about. You are going to be working on it for quite a while. A few broad topics are listed here: 1. Health Informatics 2. Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart City Paradigm 3. Network and System Security and Privacy 4. Machine Learning and Data Mining 5. Cloud Computing 6. Big Data Analytics You are recommended to consider your major/specialisation when choosing your topic. You are free Page 2 of 5free to choose any topic. However, please refine and refocus your topic before you finalise it. You should have a topic that is interesting and that you can reasonably cover in the time available. That is, you should have a more focused topic than the broad topics given above. Concentrating on a specific aspect of these broader topics will make for a much more interesting research project. You need to identify a few keywords to precisely define the topic that you choose. Remember that choosing an appropriate subject is a critical step in the success of your assignments of this unit. 2. The literature search Literature search is to find out what has been written on your topic. Using as many bibliographical sources as you can to find relevant titles will be good but for this unit, IEEE and ACM journals and magazines are adequate. You will use the keywords that you have identified to start your search. As mentioned above, the minimum number of references for this assignment is 20 titles. 3. Record the bibliographical details Write down the full bibliographical details as soon as you find a reference to it. You can use EndNote to manage your bibliographies; the Deakin library link to EndNote is at http://deakin.libguides.com/endnote IEEE and Harvard are preferred. Please prepare your references according to the guidance at http://www.deakin.edu.au/students/study-support/referencing 4. Read the literature Before you begin to read a book or article, make sure you written down the full details (see above). Take notes as you read the literature. You are reading to find out how each piece of writing approaches the subject of your research, what it has to say about it, and (especially for research students) how it relates to your own thesis. Consider the following questions:  Is it a general textbook (survey) or does it deal with a specific issue (research)?  What is its theoretical basis?  What are the research problem(s)/question(s)  What methodology/method does it use?  How data is generated and what data analyzing tools (e.g., statistical) are used?  What are the evaluation methods? How are the conclusions drawn?  Do the conclusions back the initial objectives mentioned in the abstract/introduction?  What are the shortcomings and limitations of the scope (very important)?  What are the future directions? 4. Write the literature survey Having gathered the relevant literature details, you're now ready to write the literature survey. As in all academic writing, a literature survey must have an introduction, body, and conclusion. The introduction should include: • The nature of the topic under discussion • The scope of the topic • The significance of the topic The body paragraphs could include relevant paragraphs on: • Historical background, including classic texts • Current research studies Page 3 of 5• Current discoveries about the topic • Principal questions that are being asked • Methodologies and methods in use • General conclusions that are being drawn The conclusion could include: • A summary of major agreements and disagreements in the literature • A summary of general conclusions that are being drawn • A summary of future research directions Samples You may find sample papers from: • ACM Computing Surveys (http://csur.acm.org/) • IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (http://www.comsoc.org/cst/) The papers from those journals can be just used as samples. They give you the ideas about the structure of a literature survey. You are not expected to write a literature survey with same technical details as those papers. Page 4 of 5Marking Criteria The literature survey will be marked using the following marking criteria: 1. (1 mark) The topic of the literature survey is clearly specified. 2. (1 mark) The scope of the literature survey is well justified. 3. (1 mark) The significance of the literature survey is clearly specified. 4. (6 marks) An adequate literature review (in particular, you have read and properly cited at least 20 references) is conducted and such review is clearly shown in the literature survey. Please do not use informal reference from website such as Wikipedia. 5. (8 marks) Adequate analysis and/or investigation on the literature of the selected topic have been conducted and the conclusion is clearly shown in the literature survey. You need to understand the references and classify them into different sub-topics. You may use figures and/or tables to summarise your findings from the references. Please note the analysis and/or investigation are based on the literature, but not your own research. 6. (3 marks) The literature survey is clearly structured (title, introduction, main body of the literature survey, conclusions, and references), nicely presented, and well written. The length of the literature survey is within the scope given in the guideline. 7. (2 marks) * Bonus points: The literature survey points out future research direction such as development of new system architecture, method, algorithm, technique, etc. The bonus points are not affected to the penalty from late submission. The bonus points could be given regardless how many marks you receive according to the marking scheme. That is, you could reach 22 marks in total for this assignment if you get full mark based on the marking scheme, if you are working really hard! :-) Table 1. Marking Scheme. Assignment Task 1 (20%=20 Marks) Criteria Excellent Good Marginal Not Shown 1: Specify the Clear (1 Mark) Intelligible but not Not specified (0 Mark) topic of the sharp (0.5 Mark) literature survey. 2: Justify the Well justified (1 Mark) Narrow down but not General scope no specific focus (0 Mark) scope of the sharp (0.5 Mark) literature survey. 3: Specify the Clear (1 Mark) Intelligible but not Not specified (0 Mark) significance of the sharp (0.5 Mark) literature survey. 4: Conduct an Read and properly cited 10-19 references 5-10 references cited and <5 references adequate at least 20 references and cited and presented in presented in the literature cited and literature review such review is clearly the literature survey survey (2-3 Marks) presented in the shown in the literature (4-5 Marks) literature survey survey (6 Marks) (0-1 Mark) 5: Analyse the Adequate analysis of Limited analysis of Only analysis of No analysis. literature of the advantages and advantages and advantages or (0-1 Mark) selected topic. disadvantages and clear disadvantages, and disadvantages but not conclusion (8 Marks) satisfactory both, and limited conclusion (5-7 conclusion (2-4 Marks) Marks) 6: Present the Clear structure, nice Intelligible structure, Marginal content and No related report with presentation and good presentation and hard to follow (1 Mark) content (0 suitable structure excellent written (3 written (2 Marks) Mark) and writing skills. Marks) 7: Bonus points Point out 1-2 future Point out 1-2 research Summarise limitations in No related research directions, and directions, but no existing work, but no content (0 provide possible sharp solutions (1 focused research Mark) solutions (2 Marks) Mark) direction (0.5 Mark) Page 5 of 5