CSCI 7000-025 Spring 2020 Milestone 1

MILESTONE 1

  1. By now you should have spent some time trying some approaches to solve the problem that your project is addressing. Prepare a 2-page document describing:
    • the research questions that you try to answer. Why do we care about these questions? Why are they compelling? Why are they relevant? How would the world be different if we knew the answer to these questions?
    • the main technical challenges. Why is it not trivial to solve the problem? Present challenges that you already conquered, but also those challenges that you don't know yet how to solve, or new challenges that you discovered while digging deeper into the problem.
    • your current proposed approach to solve the problem. This is expected to change until the end of the project, but for now you should have a rough idea on how to approach the solution.
    • find at least 5 pieces of related work, e.g., by searching the ACM DL, Google scholar, or scanning the accepted papers of upcoming conferences (e.g., OOPSLA, FSE). Write a short paragraph about each paper: compare and contrast it to your research, how it is similar, but also what are its shortcomings that are addressed by your research
    Use the ACM SIG template for preparing the document.
  2. You will also present in class your current progress. Cover the same points like in the previous bullet, you could even do a demo. Plan to talk for about 10 minutes.

HAND-IN:

Each team should submit the PDF and the Presentation Slides (PDF preferred, or PowerPoint) in Canvas, by 12pm on 02/05.