The schedule of the project classes
The goal of the project is twofold. First, you will gain the knowledge on your project topic and become familiar with its main concepts and
(solved and still open) issues. Second, you should find an interesting research problem related to your topic and perform some research in this area.
How to start?
If you already have a team and you have chosen a project topic,
you need to look for some information.
You probably already started from looking via Google, and/or Wikipedia, which is perfectly fine.
Later, when you gain some basic knowledge "what is going on" in the topic of your project, you will need some more professional literature.
You may use Google Scholar, which is a general purpose scientific browser, linking to numerous sources.
Beyond that, there are few technical databases very suitable for you. The first one, and probably most popular,
is IEEExplore where you can find all IEEE papers published in journals, magazines, on conferences and workshops.
Please remember, that journal and magazine papers are usually more solid/advanced than conference or workshop papers that frequently report
just an initial work on a topic. I can recommend you especially the four following sources:
Obviously other journal/magazines and some conferences are also a very good source of knowledge.
After finding some 'state-of-the-art' papers, you will be probably interested in other conference/journal papers,
a possible inspiration for the research problem that you should perform in the frame of the project.
You may try the general IEEExplore search engine
(the advanced search option is available as well) or look through the resources of
a particular journal/magazine.
Other technical databases worth to be noted are:
The papers in all these databases are peer-reviewed, which is a way how the scientific community tries to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Also, many very interesting papers can be found at the 6G Flagship website,
which is the ongoing project on some concepts of the next future generation of mobile networks.
Now, a very important matter:
Being AGH students (and having an active account in the Main AGH Library),
you have access to all these databases from anywhere in the world.
Journal, magazine, conference and workshop papers are usually free to be downloaded, but not books.
The wide list of databases (not only the ones mentioned above) is available here.
If you don't have an active library account, visit
the Main AGH Library
with your student ID.
Please, do not hesitate to send me an e-mail if anything is not clear, I'll respond the best way I can.
Obviously, you can also visit me during our project classes,
according to the classes schedule.
I'm there to advise you on your project topic and suggest some literature, if you'd like.
I wish you successful digging!
Pawel Kulakowski
The schedule of the project classes