Department of Computer Science and Technology

Course pages 2018–19

Advanced topics in mobile and sensor systems and data modelling

Presentations and Reports

Each week a student will be assigned either a presentation or a report on a paper. The order of student presentations and the assignment to papers will be decided randomly by the lecturer. Depending on the number of students, on average, a student will present about 1-2 papers in the course and will write a report on 5-6 papers. A class list of attendance will be kept. Apologies for absence should be sent to the lecturer prior the lecture.

The assigment of presentations and reports per week to students is listed here.

Presentations A presentation will be of 20 mins in length, excluding questions, and will happen during the classes. Presentations will be assessed for technical content, clarity, engagement, timeliness and question answering. Marks will be out of a 10 mark scale. Slides for presentation should be prepared and a PDF of it submitted one working day before the presentation.

Reports Each student not due to present will prepare a report each week about on one of the papers. Assignment linked above. Each report should follow this template and should be no more than 1000 words (recommendation would be for a 750 words report). Reports will be assessed for clarity, detail, accurate critique, linkage of related work and sound proposals of work expansion. Each section will be given a maximum of 2 marks and the essay will be marked out of a 10 mark scale.

Marks will be awarded and penalties for late submission applied according to the ACS Assessment Guidelines. In the week a student is presenting, no report should be submitted by that student: instead a PDF of the presentation will be submitted. Marks will be out of 10 mark scale. Each report or presentation will contribute 13% of the course mark. A 9% component for general contribution and presence to the classes in the discussion. Your reports in PDF (and PDF of slides) are due by Noon on the working day prior to the class via Moodle

Michaelmas Term Deadlines:

  • Assignment 1 due Thursday 8 November, noon
  • Assignment 2 due Thursday 15 November, noon
  • Assignment 3 due Thursday 22 November, noon
  • Assignment 4 due Thursday 29 November, noon

Lent Term Deadlines:

  • Assignment 5 due Friday 18 January, noon
  • Assignment 6 due Friday 25 January, noon
  • Assignment 7 due Friday 8 February, noon

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