Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Key Factors for Publishing Research in Top-Tier Journals

There are so many factors to consider especially if you want your work to be included in top tier journals. However the very basic factor will be the originality of your work since it will be submitted in a conference where it is evaluated. Then the next factor to consider is the applicability of your paper and the benefits and solutions it can provide if fully implemented. It is also consider the feasibility of your study to know how long it takes for the development and implementation, and the payments of course to identify which part of your study are free of charge and which are needs payments (you as a researcher should personally know that). Note that researchers qualify to be included in top tier journals are those that leads for implementation. Very Happy

Evaluating a Good Research Work

In evaluating good research from a bad one, there criteria to followed in doing so. The first thing to do is to evaluate if a questions formulated tend to answer all the questions pertaining to the research topic, and hasn't contain unrelated/irrelevant questions. Second is to test the methodology taken if its really leads to collect all data enough to answer all the questions formulated, and these methodology should be presented in the research paper. Your research should not be bias and conclusion should be credible enough to be accepted. Since research is a no ending process, your conclusion should be refutable or allow development if ever. And the most important is your research is original, and every content is not copy pasted. If your research has passed from all these criteria, then it will be considered as a good research, or vice versa. Very Happy

reference:
http://www.nctm.org/publications/content.aspx?id=10164

Monday, July 21, 2008

The Role of Research Topic in Deciding a Future Career

Research topic choice is basically based on our personal interest because we commonly choose a topic that is inline with our field of study. And since research development requires lots of reading and searching of related data and information that indicates additional new knowledge. Aside from that, conducting a research exposes us in the outside world or in the real working/business environment, and that enable us to be knowledgeable enough on a particular research topic we conducted. By that it eventually influence us in deciding our future career, in such a way that we would choose a job that our research is applicable, as well as considering the probability of being employed and to perform that job well is higher.

Research Topic Usually Address by USEP IT/CS Students

As an IT student, we are already introduced to information technology, such as its effects and advantages in improving traditional practices and systems in almost all fields. From this we have already enough knowledge in IT to think for research topics that can provide development to our fields, as well as updated solutions and answer to the present problem encountered as long as IT is concerned. That's might be the reason why, it would be better if we conduct a research that is inline with our field of expertise. And for me the research topics that usually addressed as IT is concerned are those topics that fall in the ff:

- computer security
- internet technology
- networking and distributed system
- software engineering
- multimedia system

In these topics we are the very person to know the best alternative for improvement and development and able to formulate the best solution to address such problems.