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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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