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Update 31.05.: Review Phase

Now that we received the draft versions of your papers, as announced before, we will redistribute your texts randomly to other participants of the seminar, who will then write a short review for your paper. Consequently, each of you will receive two other theses from us, for which you should write a review. 

These reviews should contain constructive criticism regarding content, structure and/or presentation of the material. Try to help the author of the paper by pointing out for instance mistakes or unclear explanations or explain which parts should be written clearer / shorter / more detailed. Everything else that you consider helpful can also be included. When writing the review, please also remind yourself of the slides from the beginning of the seminar. 

Note: Since the reviews are rather short, the focus is not to find every single spelling mistake. We assume that everyone will check the grammar and spelling by themselves again before the final submission. 

The reviews should each be around one page in length. That is, in total each of you writes two reviews, one per paper, of length one page each. For the format / template of the reviews we have no further rules, you can choose what you like. Please take care that you clearly write in the beginning of the review for whom you wrote it. This important for us to redistribute the reviews back to the authors later. 

Since it is quite common in the scientific world that reviews are blind (i.e. that authors do not know who wrote the review), we will do this in the same way here in this seminar. That means, you do not have to include your name in your review and can remain anonymous. 

The further plan is as follows:
- We will go through your submissions and either tonight or tomorrow send another email to you, with the two papers chosen for you in the attachment.
- Please read both papers and submit your reviews at latest until Friday, 09.06., 18 o’clock. Please send the email to both of us, not only one.
- We then send each author their reviews.
- We then meet the next time on the 13th June for the final presentations (refer to the schedule below)

General Information

This Master seminar deals with various topics in the context of Intelligent Systems, mainly from the areas of Metaheuristic Optimization and Swarm Intelligence.

The seminar involves regular attendence, presentation of a topic, literature research and the submission of a written report. More details will be announced in the first meeting.

The first meeting will take place of Tuesday, April 4th at 3:15 pm. The location will be Building 29 in Room 336.

If you are interested to attend the seminar, please come to the first meeting. In case there are more students than available topics, there will be a selection process. You do not have to write us emails before the first meeting to register! 

Material for the Course

Slides: Topics and Organization (04.04.)

Literature for Topic Selection (04.04.)

Folien: How to give a technical talk (11.04.)

Folien: How to write a scientific paper (18.04.)

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