State-of-the-Art Survey of Clinical Decision

What is a Survey Paper?? CSE594 Fall 2009 Jennifer Wong Oct. 14, 2009 A survey paper is… “a paper that summarizes and organizes recent research results in a novel way that integrates and adds understanding to work in the field. A survey article assumes a general knowledge of the area; it emphasizes the classification of the existing literature, developing a perspective on the area, and evaluating trends.” As described by ACM Computing Surveys Goals of a Survey

• Provide reader with a view of existing work that is well organized and comprehensive – Not all details must be included, which one’s should/shouldn’t? – Make sure to cover all relevant material completely – Logical structure of organization – State-of-the-art view Your survey paper should … • Summarize the research in 5-8 papers on a particular topic • Include your own commentary on the significance of the approach and the solutions presented in each paper • Provide a critical assessment of the work that has been done • Include a discussion on future research directions • REMEMBER – Everything you write in this survey paper has to be in your own words – All ideas, paraphrases of other people’s words must be correctly attributed in the body of the paper and in the references – Any evidence of it in the survey paper will result in a fail grade How To Find Articles • Search various digital libraries – ACM – IEEE – Google Scholar • Try to identify research groups/faculty in the area – Dig into their work and pointers How To Pick Articles – In General • When picking papers to read – try to: – Pick a recent survey of the field so you can quickly gain an overview, – Pick a paper that you can easier understand – book chapters often give easier understandable materials and lengthy explanation that may give you a head start, although they may not be as up-to-date as papers, – Pick papers that are related to each other in some ways and/or that are in the same field so that you can write a meaningful survey out of them,

– Favour papers from well-known journals and conferences, – Favour “first” or “foundational” papers in the field (as indicated in other people’s survey paper), – Favour more recent papers, – Once you have identified an interesting technology to report upon, follow developments in that strand of technology (e.g. time-wise and technology-wise developments). – Find relationships with respect to each other and to your topic area (classification scheme/categorization) Article Structure • It should not be just a concatenation of paper reviews • A typical structure of a paper includes: – Title – Abstract – Introduction – Body of paper – Conclusion/Future Work – References Article Structure • Introduction – Importance and significance of the topic – Discuss the background and target audience – Summarize the surveyed research area and explain why the surveyed area has been studied – Summarize the classification scheme you used to do the survey – Summarize the surveyed techniques with the above classification scheme Article Structure • Survey details/Body of paper – Present the surveyed techniques using the classification scheme in detail – Identify the trends in the surveyed area. Give evidences for your decision – Identify some leading research/products/companies/web-sites – Identify the unresolved problems/difficulties, and future research issues Article Structure • Conclusions/Future work – Summarize the conclusions of your survey • References – List all the citations referenced in your paper Figures • Can be taken from papers as long as appropriate credit is given – “Figure taken from [28]”. State-of-the-Art Survey of Clinical Decision

• Draw your own figures to show classification or structure of the survey • Use tables to organize comparisons between applications/systems/etc How to Cite a Reference • Cite the full info about the paper – – – – – Author names Paper title Publication details Page numbers Year, etc [1] Adomavicius G, Tuzhilin A., “Toward the Next Generation of Recommender Systems: A Survey of the State-of-the-Art and Possible Extensions”, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 6. (June 2005), pp. 734-749. In the text, use “[1]” to refer There are many bibliography formats. Select one and stick to it. State-of-the-Art Survey of Clinical Decision http://standards.ieee.org/guides/style/2009_Style_Manual.pdf (Chap 19) http://sgs.umkc.edu/pdfs/ACM-STYLE-EXAMPLES.pdf General Rules for Bibliography • Avoid use of et al. in a bibliography unless list is very long (five or more authors). • Internet drafts must be marked “work in progress”. • Book citations include publication years, but no ISBN number. • It is now acceptable to include URLs to material, but it is probably bad form to include a URL pointing to the author’s web page for papers published in IEEE and ACM publications, given the copyright situation. Use it for software and other non-library material. Avoid long URLs; it may be sufficient to point to the general page and let the reader find the material. General URLs are also less likely to change. • Leave a space between first names and last name, i.e., “J. P. Doe”, not “J.P.Doe”. What not to do…. What not to do…. … State-of-the-Art Survey of Clinical Decision