Monday, January 7, 2008:

Possible class projects will be posted in the next class period.
The types of class projects can be design and development of a software engineering project or researching on a specific software engineering research problem.
The students are welcome to submit their own project ideas in a form of two page proposal no later than by January 14th. This gives you time to decide whether you are interested in choosing a project from the list or propose your own. The students will work on the projects requested upon the approval of the instructor.
The students are expected to let the instructor know about their project preferences by no later than January 16th.
The class project teams can consist of no more than two students. Individual person teams are also welcome.
Upto two teams can choose to work on the same class project.
There will be two paper presentations per class starting from January 21st.

Here are the guidelines for the research paper presentations:

The presentations should be prepared in a chosen software tool, powerpoint, pdf, etc.
Each group will have 30 minutes talk time with 5-10 mins questions and answers session. However, it is upto each group to allow questions during the talk or hold the questions till the end of the talk. The presenter should make it clear to the audience at the beginning of the presentation.
The firs slide of the presentation should contain the title and the author of the paper being presented, the presenter's name, and other relevant information.
The presenters is expected to not only present the assigned paper, but also spend sometime on what he/she has thought of the paper (pros/cons and improvements if any) at the end of the presentation as part of the presentation slides and discussion.
The presenters are most welcome to research and refer to other related papers and include information from those papers in the presentation as long as proper citations are provided wherever possible.
If there are multiple papers are referred in the presentation, complete references (title, authors name, where published, month and year of publication, and page numbers) at the end of the presentation.

The students presenting papers in a given week must send the instructor the links for their presentation slides no later than Monday morning of that week. In addition, the students must bring hard copies of the papers to be presented along with the presentation slides at the beginning of the class.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008:

Friday, January 11, 2008:

The research paper presentations will be carried with groups of two students.
Each group will present total of three papers throughout the semester
Those interested in choosing their team partners should email me the names and email addresses no later than January 16th. Since the class email list (eel6883@eecs.ucf.edu) is already populated, feel free to send email to the list to find students to team up. The students without teams after January 16th will be placed in teams by the instructor.
Note that while you are welcome to choose your teammate for the research paper presentations, the instructor will assign the papers to the teams.

Saturday, January 12, 2008:

Thursday, January 17, 2008:

The schedule of the research papers are posted along with the presenters' names added at the end of the paper details.
The class project teams are also complete. If you do not have the title of your project yet, please let me know by next week.

Monday, January 28, 2008:

Note that papers requiring review has text (Review due: ...) at the end of the paper details. The reviews are due on Friday of the previous week. The TA will give further instructions on how to submit the reviews. The first set of reviews are due on February 7th.
For those of you who have already presented, but have not yet send me a link to the soft copy of the presentation slides, please do so ASAP. Please do not send file attachments via email. The links will be provided at the end of the paper details.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008:

Note that there are no paper reviews for next weeks since we'll have short (5 mins/each) project progress presentations. This will give you time to get started (if not already) your projects.
We will follow the same procedure for the project progress presentations. Especially, the students who are unable to come to the class should send the presentation link to the TA ahead of time.
Your presentation should include the problem statement, your initial thoughts in providing the solution, identified tasks/milestones with their expected completion times, expected difficulties, and expected resources (software, hardware, others).
Note that the paper reviews for the rest of the semester have been posted. You are welcome to turn in your reviews prior to the due dates.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008:

All the presentation files are linked. Please check your presentation file to make sure it works, if not, let me know. Also, I have few missing links which means that those groups have NOT yet send me their link. Those groups missing the links should send me their links ASAP.