Final Report

Key components

Abstract
Introduction
- motivate the problem
- summarize the question
- present a simple overview of the problem solution
- overview of your main results
- discuss the format of the rest of the thesis
Background
- material needed to understand the problem
- each statement you make that could be questioned should have a supporting citation
Related Work
- research which addressed problems similar to yours
- how does your work differ
- organize this section by idea, and not by author or by publication
Problem statement
- a concise statement of the problem
- a formal definition of the problem
- justification that the problem is previously unanswered
- discussion of why it is worthwhile to answer this question
Proposed solution
- show what you did that is relevant to solving the problem
Experimental Results
- For each experiment need:
  - methodology – how did you perform your tests
  - results – what data did you gather
  - conclusions – what conclusions can you draw from these results
Conclusion
- short, concise statements of the inferences that you have made because of your work
- list the contributions of new knowledge
- future research
Acknowledgements
References
- list references to the literature (papers and books)
- include recent papers
- include classic papers in this field

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