Workshop on Knowledge Contribution

Prerequisites

• Literature review article found on my research area
• Some related work

Repeat (Application area)

Other fields of research or areas in which CS is applied should be described.

• May provide opportunities to study CS in these areas
• May provide motivations.
• May provide context.
• May provide interesting requirements, and constraints.
• May provide opportunities to study data from those applications
• May provide opportunities to talk to CS experts in those areas
• May provide users (however make sure your study is CS)

Repeat (Research area)

An area within Computer Science

• Within CS -> studies published aimed at those communities
• Suitable for your program profile -> Connected to course
• Has research potential -> Active research published (within a few years) upcoming
• Meaningful for you
• Start by looking at the forefront of the techniques you encounter.

Should lead to a research gap, “a motivation to look deeper into this area”. Something not well explored yet.

What is related work?

In what world will my “solution”/answers live in?

• Competitions:* (If these are not research -papers, put them in the background) From existing solutions: What is the competition?
• What existing solutions exist today?
• What are the current answers?
• How do they compare?
• How are they evaluated? -> Methodology inspiration for a comparative study

Defining Research gap revisited

• Sometimes mentioned in Literature reviews / Future work
• Conflicting studies!
• build on top of someone else
  • lack of empirical evidence
  • new audience
  • new data (eg, new subjects)
• Write related work with
  • Summarize
  • Positioning
  • Motivation (show the gap)

Motivations ( Relevance)

The work we do should be of use to some population. Think of who?

Generalisable: Can your findings be used for more than the specific case you investigated? New knowledge

Find arguments for your work

• Scientific - Knowledge contribution
• Societal power- Of practical use to benefit the society
• Ethical
• Economic -