MIME-Version: 1.0 Server: CERN/3.0 Date: Sunday, 24-Nov-96 22:43:24 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 2868 Last-Modified: Thursday, 03-Oct-96 14:48:40 GMT CS 537 - Possible Survey Topics

Survey Topics for CS537 Papers

You are required to survey recent research papers on a particular topic and present a survey of current thinking on the topic. This will take the form of a "survey paper" which you will submit. This will be a Postscript document (preferably from LaTeX) which has the format of a proper paper. In other words, it has an introduction, various sections, a bibliography, etc. You will need to present the material clearly (which requires first a good understanding of the subject material). It is not simply a matter of saying "Paper A says blah. Paper B says blah." You will need to tie the two together, so that reading your survey gives a reader an informed insight into the topic. While this may appear tough when you are doing it, you will find that it helps you a lot down the road.

There are many topics listed below. There are also some topics that stem from the project list. You will need to choose a topic and talk with me about it. I will try to give you an initial paper to get started, and after that, you need to track down references from the library and collect more papers. I expect each survey to look at about 5 papers. Also, it is fine if more than one person works on the same survey topic, and if the people on a topic discuss between themselves. However, each person must write an individual survey paper.