ITC714 - Research Development in IT What is your subject about? A brief overview This subject builds on the extensive review of the research topic in the area of Information Technology (IT) that students commenced in previous coursework subjects in the course. The subject requires students to reflect on their research plan, develop a detailed research proposal, with ethics approval as appropriate, defend their research proposal, and collect data using appropriate data collection techniques. Students will develop expertise relating to a major research issue and will have the opportunity to publish their research in academic conference proceedings or refereed journals. How you are expected to engage with the subject This is the last coursework subject that you have in DIT and is the continuation of the research projects that have commenced, particularly the project in ITC713. There are six topics in the subject: 1. 2. 3.Generic Research Approaches; Empirical Research Methods; Statistical Basics, Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery; Statistical Test and Analysis; Analysing, Interpreting and Synthesizing Research Results for the Presentation of Research Findings; and Reviewing and Publishing. One of the main objectives of this subject is conducting the research project you have formulated in ITC713 and producing a publishable 4. 5. 6. Generic Research Approaches; Empirical Research Methods; Statistical Basics, Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery; Statistical Test and Analysis; Analysing, Interpreting and Synthesizing Research Results for the Presentation of Research Findings; and Reviewing and Publishing. One of the main objectives of this subject is conducting the research project you have formulated in ITC713 and producing a publishable paper by the end of the session. Another important objective is to prepare a research proposal for your DIT studies. There are four assessment items that are designed to help you achieving these objectives. Doctor of Information Technology Course In previous semester ITC713 my topic was "Big Data with Cloud Computing: The New Value Enhancer for Companies" All the previous assessments are available for any kind of help Page 2 of 4 purpose and process. 4. Given that you have a novel and convincing algorithm/solution to the research question, and a number of datasets that can be used to demonstrate the strength of your solution you now need to explain your experimental plan i.e. exactly how you are going to use your datasets to demonstrate the strengths of your technique. This can be somewhere at the beginning of your Experiment section in the paper. You need to explain the experiment plan so that a reader understands the significance of the experiment and can repeat the experiments if he/she wanted. In your experiment plan you may want to compare your algorithm/solution with a few existing ones that you have discussed in your literature review section. This will help you to demonstrate the strengths of your technique over the existing ones. In case there is no such existing solution in the literature you may devise one or two sensible and obvious solutions other than the one that you are proposing and show the advantages of your proposed technique. Rationale The assessment item is designed to help you to build skills in conducting empirical research approach by requiring you to: articulate the research process, develop an appropriate research proposal and identify any research issues that may arise when designing the appropriate research method for the chosen area of research; implement data collection techniques/methods, analyse results and judge the appropriateness of the research techniques/methods to the research problem, addressing