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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]”.
• 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.
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….

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