Výskum inteligentných softvérových systémov, ak. rok 2023/24

Writing Research Objective

A research objective you're required to write is a kind of a report. This is a form common for the papers at scientific journals or conferences. Here are some recommendations:

1. Choose the title of your report to reflect the main contribution of your project. You may need to adjust the title as you progress in writing your report and you are free to do this.
2. Write an abstract first. Just a few sentences. You'll probably need to rewrite it in the end, but it will help you understand your objective more clearly.
3. Express the top-level structure of your report: name your sections. Do not go into subsections at this point, as that will distract you from paying attention to name your topmost sections appropriately. Remember that section titles are the second most exposed part of your report. You want them to sound good.
4. The report starts with an obligatory section commonly (practically always) named Introduction. It ends with another obligatory section typically called Conclusion, Conclusions, Conclusions and Future Work, or Conclusions and Further Work.
5. It may come as a surprise, but it's best to write the introduction in the end. The introduction should present some motivation, mention some state of the art (which may be further elaborated in one or several sections following the introduction). At the end of the introduction, you want your readers to know what they may expect from the rest of the paper. Consequently, you should explicitly and by section describe the structure of your report (usually a short sentence per section is sufficient).
6. Right after the introduction, you may need to address the motivation and the state of the art in one or several sections. Avoid generic titles such as Motivation as much as possible.
7. Present what you've achieved separately from the state of the art. Typically, several sections are needed for this. Again, avoid generic titles such as Results or Approach as much as possible.
8. You should address how's what you've done related to others have done in that area, either similarly, or differently. It's best to this in a separate section. Typically, this section is called Related Work and it occurs just before the concluding section.
9. The conclusion is a recapitulation of your report, but don't do this sequentially. Put your main contributions ahead. Also, despite you're probably not going to continue with your project, indicate possible directions of further work.
10. The concluding section may be followed by one or several appendices.
11. What comes at the very end are references (bibliography). Only such references you actually refer to in the text should be included in this list (hence the name). Take care of providing sufficient data on your references using a consistent style (here's where LaTeX and BibTeX help a lot).
12. Figures and tables are typically introduced as floating objects: they float somewhere in the text (where they fit). They should have captions which include some kind of numbering. You must refer to figures and tables from the text using their numbers.