Week# 13
there was no class as there was a deadline to submit a research
proposal. You can download my research proposal from here Proposal
Assignment
Week# 14
This week students were asked to write a research paper which is to be submitted in two weeks. There were seven ideas proposed by Dr. Zubair Shaikh and students were to choose among them. The paper is to be done individually and will also be presented in a conference. Some of the ideas require a bit of experimentation and some ideas are pure literature review.
Following are the leads
1. Knowledge Classification; ways of knowledge classification, survey
based paper
2. This idea requires knowledge of Quran. As many of us already
know, the whole Quran�s summary is Surah Fatihah. The idea is that
the knowledge of whole world can be categorized in to the Ayah of
Surah. Each categories is taken from every verse of Surah Fatiha.
1) Definition 2) Attributes 3) Test 4) Rules and Regulation 5) Procedure
6) Advantages 7) Disadvantages. The hypothesis of paper we can chose
to write is that �All the verses of Holy Quran can be mapped in
to any of these seven categories�. In addition, these categories
forms some sort of heirarchy, with each category arranged at some
level of hierarchy forming a tree. What you are required to do in
your research is to first design a questionnaire and asked Ulema
to fill the questionnaire. The questionnaire is designed with questions
to ask the Ulema if they agree with the hypothesis or not.
3. As we know, the world we are living is dominated heavily by English.
Whether it is the basic usage of computer or internet world. The
2nd idea is to design a questionnaire to ask people, are we dependent
on English to learn and use computers. The questionnarie can also
be filed online.
4. This idea is related to field of Social Agents. You have to design
a software using Agents technology. There will be a Behavior Agent
that based on users interaction will determine the behavior/nature
of User.
5. Another idea related to agents. There are various tasks we do
in our daily life that requires a lot of interaction. Forexample
usually in FAST, when we have some official work, we might have
to visit several offices like Acad. off, ZN office, directors office
and ultimately after so huge amount of interaction, our task is
done. What we can do now is automate all of this task by means of
an Agent, that learning the interaction path and in future doing
all of these things by himself. What one can do in two week now
is to provide a conceptual framework atleast, describing the whole
scenario and proposing the solution
6. Lets start understanding this idea with an example. If I write
the word office, what we visualize? Obviously, ther will be chairs,
table, cabinets etc in a room. So a single word provides appropriate
context. A lot of work has already been done in past in which this
thing is automated to provide the context related to words. This
is called �Storyboard Telling�. The idea is that �Can agents technology
can be used to do the same thing by means of some scripts assigned
to agents?�
7. There are two main agent architecture around us. One is MASIF
and 2nd is FIPA. A large number of frameworks are around us based
on thse two architectures. The question is why not the third architecture?
Do a comparison of two architectures and come up with the conclusion
�is there any need for third architecture?�
Week 15
We had a hands-on lab session where Dr. Zubair Shaikh given the
task to compare two search engines, hotbot.com and webcrawler.com.
This involved identifying the role of person who is carrying out
the comparison since the comparative analysis is heavily independent
on the kind of role you are fitting yourself in and hence your questions
will differ. Dr. Zubair Shaikh also introduced the process of peer-reviewing
and gave an article on how to peer-review. Research paper was also
given that elaborated how to perform a comparison between two sites.
Towards the end of the session, students were asked to peer-review
vastle.com in the light of findings earlier identified by the comparative
analysis of hotbot.com and webcrawler.com
Peer Review Research
Paper
Week 16
Class was cancelled.
Week 17
This was the final class where we submitted our assignment and research
paper.
Website Comparison
Assignment
A Process of Knowledge Classification