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Methodology
Research methodology
- Mary Shaw on writing good software engineering papers
- Practical Research by Paul D. Leedy, Jeanne Ellis Ormrod: research method for non technical developments. The book has been reedited since.
- La méthode expérimentale, The OHERIC method
- un doc très précis sur la méthode expérimentale, à destination des psychologues de Paris Ouest
Typography
- Edit you Latex documents with Texnic Center and Miktex
- Learn Latex for professional publishing
- Some typo hints by Jacques Andre (in French)
Bibliography
- Find publications with Google scholar
- Find publications at Service Commun de la documentation, Unistra
Misc tools
- Manage your meeting with Doodle
- Manage your tasks with Trello
- Share documents with Google Drive
- Edit documents collaboratively with Google Docs
Standard planning
Some tipps by Fred Le Mouel
For my own students
- Goal
- 5 conference papers, 2 journals
- Year 1
- Before you start
- Prospective thesis outline
- Scientific method to be used
- Technical goals of the project
- Feasability study (4 months)
- State of the art
- Proof-of-concept (PoC) of the thesis goal
- Conference paper: typically a small conference, for learning writing
- Project Poster
- Iteration 1: core of scientific contribution (8 months)
- Rewrite core research question, write a domain survey
- Formalise scientific contribution, develop PoC of the contribution
- Conference paper
- End of the year
- Rewrite thesis subject
- Rewrite prospective thesis outline
- 1 page on project progress
- Before you start
- Year 2
- Iteration 2: refine/extend scientific contribution (6 months)
- Research question, domain survey
- Formalise scientific contribution, develop PoC of the contribution
- Conference paper
- Journal paper
- Iteration 3: refine/extend again (6 months)
- Find partners abroad
- Research question, domain survey
- Formalise scientific contribution, develop PoC of the contribution
- Conference paper
- End of the year
- Rewrite prospective thesis outline
- 1 page on project progress
- Iteration 2: refine/extend scientific contribution (6 months)
- Year 3
- Iteration 4: refine/extend again (6 months)
- Research question, domain survey
- Formalise scientific contribution, develop PoC of the contribution
- Conference paper
- Journal paper
- Redaction (6 months)
- Finalize thesis outline
- Make missing contributions
- Write (4 months)
- Iteration 4: refine/extend again (6 months)
Bootstrap you PhD
- Find founding and advisor
- Define the objective (both technical and scientific), get thesis subject
- Find: the suitable scientific community, target conferences and journals
- Identify conferences and journals where your team is involved in
- Identify A* and A level conferences for your topic: CorePortal
- Make the administrative part
- Apply for your doctoral college. In Strasbourg, MSII
- For Cifre application, apply to the Cifre website
- This directory may be useful for informations about french labs and doctoral colleges.