All project components are cumulative. This means that your written project proposal forms a starting point for the written research proposal which is then used to make the final project report. Similarly, your oral research proposal slides can be reused to create the final project slides. You will be given feedback at every stage and can incorporate these suggestions to improve your next submission.
You should write your project proposal and all other reports in a sentence/paragraph format as per a conference or journal paper. Do not just include definition after definition with no surrounding text.
Page lengths are rough guidelines to give you an idea of what I am expecting.
The student should have chosen a project topic by this point. A short report should be turned in describing the problem the student has chosen to study. I want you to define ALL relevant terminology for your project starting from the definitions of a graph, a vertex and an edge. You do not need to include any literature review or progress on the research at this stage- just the problem definition.
The student at this point should have collected references related to the problem chosen. This report should describe briefly what has been done on the problem, what the student hopes to accomplish, and should suggest some possible techniques for achieving these goals. Please also read the detailed suggestions for writing a good research proposal.
These slides are for a short talk on the material in the written research proposal.
A written report summarizing the outcome of the research proposal. If the research has not been fruitful, then the student should try to explain why the techniques used did not work. The report must include a description of what has not yet been done and a list of related questions for future research.
This will be evaluated based on the material in your project report and any programs or results (for example graphs you find) handed in.
A detailed grading scheme is available.
The student should prepare an oral presentation of the project. Be sure to include suggestions of interesting problems for future research. You will be graded only on the quality of the talk at this stage- you may not have completed all of your research before these presentations are given.
The project is intended to be independent work. Students however are encouraged to consult with the instructor whenever desired.