PPPP Module: Referencing and Searching for Literature

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PPPP Module Referencing and Searching for
Literature

• Module Co-ordinators
• Shamima Paurobally (paurobs_at_wmin.ac.uk)
• Radmila Juric (R.Juric_at_westminster.ac.uk)

PPPP slides for Monday 22nd October 2007 (wk1
slides 2)
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Plagiarism

• What is Plagiarism?
• Plagiarism (from the Latin plagiare, "to kidnap")
  is the practice of claiming, or implying,
  original authorship of (or incorporating material
  from) someone else's written or creative work, in
  whole or in part, into one's own without adequate
  acknowledgement
• Within academia, plagiarism by students,
  professors, or researchers is considered academic
  dishonesty or academic fraud and offenders are
  subject to academic censure.
• Identifying Sources
• The cornerstone of good scholarship is the
  accurate identification of the source of an idea
  or way of presenting an idea.
• Whenever (written, visual or oral) material (text
  or data or drawings or designs or artefacts) that
  was originally produced by another person/s is
  used, then the person or persons who produced the
  material should be acknowledged.
• Also a way of indicating to readers other
  publications, which may be useful.
• Always reference text, diagram, idea taken from
  other works!!

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Referencing

• Papers from established and refereed journals and
  conferences
• Two elements
• Citation in main text
• References section

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Referencing Systems

• Various referencing systems
• Two most common Numeric system and the Harvard
  system
• Consistent style of entry for each entry in the
  bibliography
• the required set of elements and their ordering
  in each entry in the references list

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Bibliographical References Section

• Occurs at the end of the paper, thesis, report
• Books
• Title, author(s) surname and initials, date,
  edition of book, name of publisher and place of
  publication, page numbers if book chapter,
  editor.
• Journal articles
• Title, author(s) surname and initials, name of
  journal, date of publication, volume number, part
  number, page numbers covered by article.
• Conference proceedings
• Title, author(s) surname and initials, name of
  conference, editor, date and location of
  conference, page numbers covered by article.
• Other sources of information
• Workshop proceedings, technical report, white
  paper, online manuals
• At least Title, authors, URL (and when last
  accessed)

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Numeric System

• References section is a numbered list of
  publications
• Book
• 26 Crane, D. Invisible colleges. Chicago
  University of Chicago Press, 1972.
• Journal
• 30 Ayala, F.J. Evolution of fitness. Genetics,
  1966, 53(6), pp. 549-560.
• Conference
• 31 Nettleton, C., Blake, J. and Grant, E. High
  level languages for embedded microcomputers. In
  Proceedings of the 2nd national conference on
  microprocessors in automation and communications.
  London 27-29 Jan 1987. IEE, 1987, pp. 289-300.
• Technical report
• 32 Barwell, F.T. Investigation of unusual
  bearing failures. August 1967. National
  Engineering Laboratory. NEL Report No. 307.

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Numeric Systems Citations in Main Text

• deploy and redeploy computational (and other)
  resources as required, to solve computationally
  complex problems 26.
• has been explored in the sciences (26)
• as defined by Roberts et al. 26

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Harvard System

• An alphabetically ordered list of publications
• Author
• Crane, D.
• Year of publication
• Crane, D. 1987
• Crane, D. 1990
• Letter if same year
• Crane, D. 1987a
• Crane, D. 1987b
• Book
• Crane, D., 1972. Invisible colleges. Chicago
  University of Chicago Press.
• Journal
• Ayala, F.J., 1966a. Evolution of fitness.
  Genetics, 53(6), pp. 883-895.
• Conference
• Nettleton, C.C.F. 1987. High level languages for
  microcomputers. In Proceedings of the 2nd
  conference on microprocessors. London. January
  1987. IEE, 1987, pp. 289-300
• Technical report
• Barwell, F.T. August 1967. Investigation of
  unusual bearing failures. National Engineering
  Laboratory. NEL Report No. 307.

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Example of References section (Harvard System)

• Aiello, M., Frankova, G., and Malfatti, D. 2005.
  An Analysis of WS-Agreement. In Proceedings of
  International Conference on Service-Oriented
  Computing (ICSOC). Springer LNCS 3826, Berlin,
  Germany, 424436.
• Ayienga, E., Manderick, B., Okello, O., and Nowe,
  A. 2004. Multi-agent systems for efficient
  quality of service routing in grids. ERCIM News
  59, 3942.
• Brittain, J. and Darwin, I. 2003. Tomcat The
  Definitive Guide. OReilly, Cambridge, USA.
• Brittain, J. and Darwin, I. 2005. Unraveling
  theWeb ServicesWeb An Introduction to SOAP,WSDL
  and UDDI. IEEE Internet Computing 6, 8693.
• Curbera, F., Duftler, M., Khalaf, A. 2004a.
  Middle-agents for the Internet. In 15th
  International Joint Conference on Artificial
  Intelligence. Morgan Kaufmann, Burlington, USA,
  578683.
• Curbera, F., Duftler, M., Khalaf, A. 2004b. Web
  Services Agreement Specification (WS-Agreement).

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Harvard System citation in main text

• deploy and redeploy computational (and other)
  resources as required, to solve computationally
  complex problems Foster and Kesselman 2003.
• has been explored in the sciences (Crane 1972)
• as defined by Roberts (1956)
• which can support a broad range of commercial
  applications ( Curbera et al. 2007)

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Incorrect References what NOT to do!

• Aiello, M., Frankova, G., and Malfatti, D. 2005.
  Whats in an Agreement? An Analysis of
  WS-Agreement.
• Ayienga, E., Manderick, B. 2004. Multi-agent
  systems for efficient quality of service. ERCIM
  News.
• Brittain. 2002 Tomcat The Definitive Guide.
• Brittain, J. and Darwin, I. Tomcat The
  Definitive Guide. OReilly, Cambridge, USA.

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Searching for Litterature
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Searching for Publications

• Searching for publications books, journal and
  conference papers, reports, white papers, etc.
• Importance of good referencing helps here!
• Obtaining publication electronically
• Obtaining publication manually

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InfoLinX

• Electronic catalogue at Library
• infoLinX is the library's search engine which you
  can use to find quality information online.
  Search it to get immediate access to e-journal
  articles, e-books and more, or to find details
  of academic research from around the world.
• http//www.wmin.ac.uk/page-3538
• Use infoLinX to find online information,
  including
• E-books
• E-journals
• Journal articles  
• Other online collections
• Session in NLG1.07 on Monday 22nd October 2007
  from 7-8 pm

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Online publishers sites

• Online journals
• Example ACM
• Association for Computing Machinery
• http//www.acm.org/
• Digital library
• Example Journal of AI research
• http//www.jair.org/
• Example IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and
  Cybernetics
• http//www.ieeesmc.org/publications/
• Online conference proceedings
• Example Springer Verlag LNCS, LNAI
• http//www.springer.com/
• Example Elsevier
• http//www.elsevier.com/

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Online Publication Repository

• Citeseer
• http//citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
• Good source of online articles
• IEEE explore
• electrical engineering, computer science, and
  electronics
• http//ieeexplore.ieee.org/
• Computer Science Bibliography at trier.de
• http//www.informatik.uni-trier.de/ley/db/index.h
  tml
• Wikipedia
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Online search engines

• Authors homepages
• Their online publications uploaded
• Always check publication details and double check
  at publication website
• Google .

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Questions
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Monday 22nd October 7-8 pm

• Just after this lecture today from 7pm 8pm
• Session on InfoLinX by Emma Mires
• Location Lab NLG1.07

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Tuesday 23rd October

• Presentations by MSc. students from last year
  (2006 - 2007)
• Will help you in task 1 (presentation of
  literature survey)
• Will help you in your own presentation
• Parallel sessions in rooms 2.09, 2.10, 2.11
• Schedule can be found on blackboard
• Choose which session to attend
• Ask questions if you wish, provide feedback

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Tasks for Thursday 25th October

• Partition yourself into groups of 4 for task 1 to
  be given on Wednesday 25th October.
• Two papers to read for Thursday 25th October
• Can be found on blackboard in course documents
  for this module
• Brain Meets Brawn Why Grid and Agents Need Each
  Other I. Foster, N. Jennings, C. Kesselman.
  Proc. Joint International Conference on
  Autonomous Agents and Multi-agents Systems, 2004,
  Australia.
• A Framework for Web Service Negotiation S.
  Paurobally, V. Tamma, M. Wooldridge. Special
  Issue of the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and
  Adaptive Systems (TAAS) journal on AgentLink,
  2007.

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Monday 22nd October 7-8 pm

• Just after this lecture today from 7pm 8pm
• Session on InfoLinX by Emma Mires
• Location Lab NLG1.07