Research Methods in Computer Science, Spring 2020

Question and remarks can be send to RMCS20@liacs.leidenuniv.nl. We make the course material is available on Blackboard. The official description of the course can be found in the eProspectus/studiegids.

Course Schedule

Lectures

Date Title
04 Feb 2020 Introduction, How to summarise a paper
18 Feb 2020 Guest lecture: Scientific publishing and peer review (prof. dr. Holger Hoos)
25 Feb 2020 (Updated!) How to write a proposal?
10 Mar 2020 Guest lecture Methods of qualitative and quantitative research (dr. Felienne Hermans)
21 Apr 2020 How to give a scientific presentation?
26 & 27 May 2020 Student symposium

Deadlines

Topic Deadlines
Bidding on a paper (for the summarising assignment) 10 Feb 23:59
Paper summary 02 Mar 23:59
Proposal (based on the bids) 06 Apr 23:59
Bidding on the proposal (for peer review) 13 Apr 23:59
Presentation insights after visiting a scientific presentation 20 Apr 23:59
Peer Review (graded) 27 Apr 23:59

Paper Bidding

The paper bidding is closed. The result of the paper distribution is listed in the following table. Please let us know if you there are any problems or you are unhappy with the choices made.

Group Paper
1 A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning
2 The Unified Logging Infrastructure for Data Analytics at Twitter
3 On the Difficulty of Nonograms
9 An Efficient Geographical Addressing Scheme for the Internet
10 How Kids Code and How We Know: An Exploratory Study on the Scratch Repository
11 CommanderSong: A Systematic Approach for Practical Adversarial Voice Recognition
12 Languages of The Future
13 Don’t Until the Final Verb Wait: Reinforcement Learning for Simultaneous Machine Translation
14 Spotify — Large Scale, Low Latency, P2P Music-on-Demand Streaming
15 Delta Pointers: Buffer Overflow Checks Without the Checks
16 Metaheuristic macro scale traffic flow optimisation from urban movement data
17 General Game Playing: Overview of the AAAI Competition
18 Guidelines of Business Process Modeling
19 Identification of a Common Different Gene Expression Signature in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
20 The Theory of Tetris, Nieuwsbrief van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Theoretische Informatica
21 Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks - one of the leading AI examples at the moment
22 Developing a Reference Method for Game Production by Method Comparison
23 Agile and Software Product Line Methods: Are They So Different?
24 The Kissing Problem: How to End a Gathering When Everyone Kisses Everyone Else Goodbye
25 Heads-up Limit Hold’em Poker is Solved
27 All Your GPS Are Belong To Us:Towards Stealthy Manipulation of Road Navigation Systems
30 Identifying Stops and Moves in WiFi Tracking Data
32 Deep Learning
33 Simple and Space-Efficient Minimal Perfect Hash Functions
36 Better managed than memorized? Studying the Impact of Managers on Password Strength and Reuse
37 The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a high-level language
39 Subgroup Discovery
40 Early Programming Education and Career Orientation: the Effects of Gender, Self-Efficacy, Motivation and Stereotypes