Minor Introduction to Scientific Research

Everything you always wanted to know about research ... but were afraid to ask.

Becoming a researcher is a professional qualification. Science requires curiosity, original thinking, rigor, experimentation and critical analysis of results. But for centuries now, science progresses have led to ever stronger organizations at the international scale, scientists’ professional networks, shared practices and rules. In a both competitive and collaborative and frontier-less research environment, conducting visible and relevant scientific research requires a strong methodology and conforming to international standards.

The course will cover the following topics:

• Definition of scientific research, scientific methodology and the interactions between science and society. Ethics of scientific research.
• Acquiring a background on a scientific topic, analyzing the state-of-the-art, compiling a bibliography, publishing scientific results, facing the evaluation of scientific work by peer scientists and presenting scientific activity to a specialized audience.
• Planning, conducting and analyzing scientific experiments.
• Scientific environment, collaborations, research funding and interaction between academic institutions and industry.

Contents:

• Epistemology, "What is science?"
• Research: a job of passion
• Methods for conducting research
• Bibliographical research
• Scientific writing
• Conducting experiments
• Scientific collaborations
• Digital Deontology
• PhD and its career opportunities

The bibliography is mostly used to provide examples of scientific works and to perform article analysis. All the following articles are available on a dedicated web site, with a password to protect copyrights. Only title are provided here because providing the complete reference of each article is part of the student exercise.

• Software Engineering, Designing software for a million users – It's not about the technology
• Boolean networks, Synthesis of Boolean Networks from Biological Dynamical Constraints using Answer-Set Programming
• Models of metabolic networks, Meneco, a Topology-Based Gap-Filling Tool Applicable to Degraded Genome-Wide Metabolic Networks
• Modelling of cell reproduction, Logical model specification aided by model-checking techniques: application to the mammalian cell cycle regulation
• Broadband radar imaging technique, A Real-Time Close-Range Imaging System with Fixed Antennas
• Permittivity estimation technique based on radar imagery, SAR Based Non-Destructive Evaluation of Irregularly Shaped Objects with Simultaneous
• Estimation of Geometry and Permittivity
• Fundamental principles of reflector networks, Design of Millimeter Wave Microstrip Reflectarrays
• Folded reflector network, MiIIimeter-Wave Folded Reflector Antennas with High Gain, Low Loss, and Low Profile
• Network synthesis, Folded Multilayer Microstrip Reflectarray With Shaped Pattern
• Antenna measurement, Coordinate System Plotting for Antenna Measurements
• The plane wave spectrum, Modeling of Near-Field Scaning in MATLAB
• Echo filtering, Reflection Suppression in Cylindrical Near-Field Antenna Measurement Systems - Cylindrical MARS
• Radio Access Network Intelligent Controller, MIMO-RIC: RAN Intelligent Controller for MIMO xApps
• IT security, an attack exploiting the "Stack overflow" bug, Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profi
• Compilation, The Generation of Optimal Code for Arithmetic Expressions
• Parallel programming paradigms, A Survey of Parallel Programming Models and Tools in the Multi and Many-Core Era
• Scheduling tasks on a single processor, Scheduling Algorithms for Multiprogramming in a Hard- Real-Time Environment
• Application of deep learning to medical database analysis, Deep Patient: An Unsupervised Representation to Predict the Future of Patients from the Electronic Health Records
• Limitations of mobile systems for deep learning, Are Very Deep Neural Networks Feasible on Mobile Devices?
• Sequence modelling and transduction model, Attention Is All You Need
• Survey, State of the Art in Distributed Query Processing
• Unreliability of sources distributed on the web, ANAPSID: An Adaptive Query Processing Engine for SPARQL Endpoints
• Parallel optimization of queries, FedX: Optimization Techniques for Federated Query Processing on Linked Data
• Optimization by identifying relevant data sources, HiBISCuS: Hypergraph-Based Source Selection for SPARQL Endpoint Federation

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