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    SIT340/740
    Research and Development in Information Technology
    Assignment 1 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, 15 April 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/help-guides/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. Submissions received after the due date are penalised at a rate of 10% (out of the full mark) per
    day, no exceptions. Late submission after 3 days would be penalised at a rate of 100% out of
    the full mark. 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.
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    Guideline
    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 in DSO:
    1. Network and System Security
    2. Security and Privacy in I.T.
    3. Machine Learning and Data Mining
    4. Cloud Computing
    5. Mobile Computing
    6. Resource and Service Discovery and Selection
    7. Services Computing
    8. Optimisation and Modelling
    You are recommended to consider your major/specialisation when choosing your topic. You are
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    free 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.
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    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 or does it deal with a specific issue(s)?
    • What is its theoretical basis?
    • What definitions does it use?
    • What is its general methodological approach? What methods are used?
    • What are the evaluation methods?
    • What kinds of evaluation results does it use to back up its argument?
    • What conclusions does it come to?
    5. Write the literature survey
    Having gathered the relevant details about the literature, you are now ready to write the literature
    survey. Like 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
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    • 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.
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    Marking 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
    topic of the
    literature survey.
    Clear (1 Mark) Intelligible but not
    sharp (0.5 Mark)
    Not specified (0 Mark)
    2: Justify the
    scope of the
    literature survey.
    Well justified (1 Mark)  Narrow down but not
    sharp (0.5 Mark)
    General scope no specific focus (0 Mark)
    3: Specify the
    significance of the
    literature survey.
    Clear (1 Mark) Intelligible but not
    sharp (0.5 Mark)
    Not specified (0 Mark)
    4: Conduct an
    adequate
    literature review
    Read and properly cited
    at least 20 references and
    such review is clearly
    shown in the literature
    survey (6 Marks)
    10-19 references
    cited and presented in
    the literature survey
    (4-5 Marks)
    5-10 references cited and
    presented in the literature
    survey (2-3 Marks)
    <5 references
    cited and
    presented in the
    literature survey
    (0-1 Mark)
    5: Analyse the
    literature of the
    selected topic.
    Adequate analysis of
    advantages and
    disadvantages and clear
    conclusion (8 Marks)
    Limited analysis of
    advantages and
    disadvantages, and
    satisfactory
    conclusion (5-7
    Marks)
    Only analysis of
    advantages or
    disadvantages but not
    both, and limited
    conclusion (2-4 Marks)
    No analysis.
    (0-1 Mark)
    6: Present the
    report with
    suitable structure
    and writing skills.
    Clear structure, nice
    presentation and
    excellent written (3
    Marks)
    Intelligible structure,
    good presentation and
    written (2 Marks)
    Marginal content and
    hard to follow (1 Mark)
    No related
    content (0
    Mark)
    7: Bonus points  Point out 1-2 future
    research directions, and
    provide possible
    solutions (2 Marks)
    Point out 1-2 research
    directions, but no
    sharp solutions (1
    Mark)
    Summarise limitations in
    existing work, but no
    focused research
    direction (0.5 Mark)
    No related
    content (0
    Mark)
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