American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB)

Department of Computer Science

Faculty of Science & Technology (FST)

Research Methodology
Assignment

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Semester: Spring_2024-2025 Section: Group No:

FINAL TERM
SL SN Student Name Student ID Total Marks: 50
CO1 CO2 CO3 CO4 CO5 Viva Total
(9) (9) (9) (9) (9) (5) Marks
A
B
C
D

Submission Date:

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 ASSESSMENT & EVALUATION

ASSIGNMENT: Write a research article following the appropriate research methodology to

present noble research findings.

EVALUATION: The assignment will be Evaluated for the following Course Outcomes.

CO1: Evaluate all relevant resources for designing a computer science and Total Marks (9)
engineering solution and determine the level of novelty of the research.
Problem Analysis and use of State-of-the-Art Resources: Discuss the research [3 Marks]
problem background with best use of state‐of‐art literature, resources, and
technologies (e.g., related studies & research gap) to produce a significant result
that is likely to have a major impact.
Critical Reflection and Creativity in Research Objective: Deep insight [3 Marks]
demonstrated and presented a creative solution to the real ‐life problem. And
Results are critically confronted with various existing literature (e.g., formation of
the RQs).
Novelty and Contribution of Research: Elaborately discuss and identify the [3 Marks]
contribution of the research to the development of scientific concepts by
recognizing the limitation (e.g., research gaps) of existing research/developments.

CO2: Analyze the collected data to provide valid solutions to the research problem Total Marks (9)
acknowledging the limitations.
Data Analysis: Elaborately discuss the research method, its appropriateness and [3 Marks]
details on data collection, analysis, and synthesis for proposing valid solution to
the research problem (e.g., research methodology)
Solution and Validation: Elaborately discuss and validate the solution of the [3 Marks]
research problem by establishing a direct connection between proposed solutions
with the research objective based on the collected research data (e.g., result &
analysis).
Limitation of the Study: Elaborately discuss the research summary and conclude [3 Marks]
remarks of the research by acknowledging the limitations of the studies (e.g.,
abstract and conclusion)

CO3: Formulate and explain ethical constraints and considerations of engineering Total Marks (9)
practice in conducting research to provide computer science and engineering
solutions.
Professional codes of ethics and standard, Research Outcomes and Impacts: The [3 Marks]
research elaborately demonstrates professional codes of ethics and standards in
conducting research considering public safety; the impacts of engineering activity;
economic, social, cultural, environmental and sustainability of the research
outcomes and impacts.

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Free of Plagiarism, Data Falsification Citations and References: Submit plagiarism [3 Marks]
free research paper (similarity index is <10%). In-text citations and reference list
citations were complete and properly formatted in APA or any other standard
style. The Research data is not fabricated or altered intentionally to fit into the
predetermined research findings. Materials are properly cited and referenced if
they are taken from other sources. And not attributed to a source from which it
has not been obtained (i.e., false citation)
Compliance with Report Formatting and Submission Guidelines: Submitted in due [3 Marks]
time, the report is complete and there are no errors in spelling, format, and
grammar. Consistently presents a logical and effective organization.

CO4: Depict the need for continuing education and participation in professional Total Marks (9)
societies and meetings.
Motivation of the research: Explore extensively the research topics with evidence [3 Marks]
rich awareness of the research problems (e.g., facts, citations) indicating intense
interest in the area.
Comprehension and problem solving: Excellent understanding of material and [3 Marks]
completely demonstrates effective problem- solving skills integrating alternate and
divergent ideas or processes to solve the research problem.
Future studies: The scope of future studies is stated and discussed elaborately [3 Marks]
with details of how this study can be extended in future endeavor.

CO5: Defend the research solutions based on complex engineering activities by Total Marks (9)
delivering an effective presentation to the audience.
[3 Marks]
Presentation delivery (eye contact and body language): Keeps eye contact with
A: B:
audience all the time, use natural gestures and movements, looks confident.
C: D:
Enthusiasm/Audience Awareness: Demonstrate strong enthusiasm about the [3 Marks]
topic, significantly increases audience understanding and knowledge of the topic, A: B:
convinces an audience to recognize the validity and importance of the subject. C: D:
Creativity and Use of Media and Presentation time Management: The [3 Marks]
presentation is creative in design and effectively use multimedia. The presentation A: B:
is organized with appropriate time management. C: D:

Viva/Defense/Q&A Total Marks (5)

A: B:
Defend the research on performance in the question/answer session.
C: D:

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 Write Your Manuscript Title Here
Author’s Name
Department of Computer Science
American International University – Bangladesh
author’s email address

ABSTRACT

(a) Your article must include an abstract, consisting of 100-150 words, which provides readers
with an overview of the content of your article.
(b) It is important that your abstract clearly states the purpose of your article, data analyzing
methods, and summarizes the research finding/content with its usefulness to various
communities. For example:
This paper/article/study/research discusses/investigates……using SLR/Interview/Survey. The
primary findings are……which would be helpful for….
OR
The purpose of this research…

Keywords: Word One, Word Two, Word Three.

(a) Please include a list of 5-8 keywords that figure prominently in your article. These words
should include important vocabulary, names of people, and names of organizations,
primarily.
(b) These terms will be included to generate the index for the book. Please do not include words
that are part of the book title or article title. Each word should be capitalized.

INTRODUCTION
o After reading the introduction, the reader should be aware of why this paper is worth reading.

Problem Background

(a) Discuss the Background information of the research area and definition of key research terms
with appropriate references.
(b) Discuss why this problem is important to consider (e.g., if necessary, provide a story telling
method with diagram and reference to present the factual reality and realize the gravity to the

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 research problem). For example, explore extensive research topics with evidence rich
awareness of the research problems indicating intense interest in the area.
(c) Clearly state what the real problem in the research domain is at the end of this section
(preferably with some bullet points). Also, be aware how is this problem background related
to your RQs?
Related Studies

(a) Provide a discussion of the incorporated views of others (literature review) to support, refute,
or demonstrate what others have done on the research topic and problem background. Hence,
discuss the existing research within the problem area (other’s work). Who else has studied
this problem? And what were their findings? How are these studies related to the problem
domain?
(b) To demonstrate the novelty of your research, discuss what the research gap still exists in the
research domain is to consider?
(c) Discuss how the professional codes of ethics and standard in conducting research considering
public safety; the impacts of engineering activity; economic, social, cultural, environmental
and sustainability have been addressed in the research.

Research Objectives

(a) Discuss your research motivation/aims/objectives in relation to the identified research gap in
related existing research/studies/solutions/etc.
(b) Add 1-2 Research Question (RQs) to reflect your research objectives.

Research Contributions

(a) Discuss how your research will contribute to the world/nation/community/society/individual

and make a difference? Who is the audience of your research? What is your contribution to
them? Who can use your proposed solutions and get benefits in which way?
(b) Paper Organization plan (Optional part)

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
(a) Selection of Data Collection Method:
 Elaborate the selection of your data collection/analysis method and tools that are
completely and accurately relevant, making the analysis easy to reproduce.
 Provide a description of why you select interview/survey/literature review instead of
other available data collection techniques with some strong arguments. Describe how the
selected methods/tools are highly appropriate for this type of research and are directly
linked to the purpose and research questions.

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(b) Description of the Data Collection Method: Elaborately discuss the step-by-step process of
your data collection and analysis method (if necessary, design and add relevant figures to
demonstrate the process).

For Systematic Literature Review (SLR):

(i) Database-Publisher: What databases have you searched for to find relevant literature
(e.g., publisher database).
(ii) Search Engine: To consider all sources of literature rather than concentrate only reputed
journals and conferences employ Google Scholar search engine that includes all the
underlying libraries/databases in the search process to find any missing literature in the
database search and also explore any other sources of literature for relevant the research
topic.
(iii) Keywords: What keywords have you used in your database searching with AND-OR-
NOT Boolean logic?
(iv)Search Scope: Where did you search in the literature (e.g. title, abstract, full text, etc.)
(v) Publication Duration: What is the time frame of your literature searching (e.g., last
five/ten years).
(vi)Backward Search: Review the reference list of your selected literature to find any
literature that are also related to your research topic and might give information to answer
your RQs. How many literatures you’ve identified following backward search technique.
(vii) Forward Search: Review the “Cited By” link using Google Scholar to identify the
literature those are cited your selected literature to find any literature that are also related to
your research topic and might give information to answer your RQs. How many literatures
you’ve identified following forward search technique.
(viii) Author’s Citation Index: Discuss How did you search literature using author’s citation
index techniques (e.g., DBLP, Google Scholar, etc.). How many literatures you’ve
identified following author’s citation index searching technique.
(ix)Literature Selection: What was the number of literatures you’ve initially and finally
selected? How did you analyze the final selected literature to extract data to answer your
research question?
(x) Inclusion-Exclusion: What is the inclusion/exclusion criteria you’ve followed to finalize
your literature selection? For example:
 Language: English
 Publication Year: Time frame of the publication (if applicable)
 Version: Multiple publications (different version)
 Literatures Scope: Provide information to answer your research question(s)
 Peer-Review: All research studies must be peer-reviewed

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 (xi) Literature Quality Assessment: How did you assess the quality of your literature
selection? For quality assessment, the following indicators may consider discussing in this
section:
 Quality assessment of the final selected literature:
- Article published in ISI/Scopus indexed journal/conferences.
- Number of citations of the included literature
 Completeness of the Literature Review:
- Crossmatch with the findings from similar studies following SLR.

For Interview/Survey:

o Explain how did you generate interview/survey questions (Structured, Unstructured, and
Semi-structured questionaries)?
o Open-ended (Unstructured) questionnaire is commonly used in Interview and Close-ended
(Structured) questionnaire is commonly used in Survey data collection process.
o What are the questions you’ve asked in interview/survey?
o How did you conduct an interview or survey (e.g., online, offline)?
o Who are the respondents to answer your questions? How did you select them? What is the
total number of respondents?
o How did you analyze the data to present your findings (e.g., field notes, checklist, electronic
recorder, etc.)?
(i) Survey Design:
(ii) Participant Recruitment:
(iii) Survey Distribution:
(iv) Data Analysis:

Guidelines for Interview/Survey Questionnaire:

 Provide answer options that cover the full set of possible responses (open & closed question)
 Make answer choices both mutually exclusive (no overlaps in numerical ranges, 1-5 &5-10)
 Don’t phrase a question in a way that implies a “correct” answer
 If you use scales, use them consistently throughout the questionnaire (e.g., 1-9)
 Consider consulting with an expert in questionnaire design and administration to ensure that
you ask the right questions of the right people
 Always test a questionnaire before distributing it. It’s frustrating to discover too late that a
question was phrased ambiguously or to realize that an important question was omitted
 Don’t ask too many questions or people won’t respond.

(c) Professional codes of ethics and standard: The research elaborately demonstrates
professional codes of ethics and standard in conducting research considering public safety;

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 the impacts of engineering activity; economic, social, cultural, environmental and
sustainability.

o Provide a description that convincingly and accurately frames the ethical issues and parses it
into sub‐problems, providing justification. Also suggest detailed and viable approaches to
resolve the Ethical Issues. Provide a description about how did you delt with these above-
mentioned ethical issues in your research.

o Some examples of Ethical issues for SLR are given below:

- Is there any biasness may occur in your data collection process of selecting the
course of literature.
- Discuss how your research data is realistic and does not have any misconduct in
it.
- Discuss the accuracy of your data to present your analysis (Falsification or
fabrication of data/citation/references, plagiarism, conflict of interest, etc.)

o Some examples of Ethical issues related to SURVEY/INTERVIEW are given below:

(a) Ethical Concern: Participants must be fully informed about the purpose of the
survey/research, the nature of their involvement, how the data will be used, and any
potential risks.
Best Practice: Provide a clear, accessible consent form; allow participants to withdraw at
any time without penalty.

(b) Ethical Concern: Survey responses often include personal or sensitive information.
Inadequate protection of data can lead to breaches of confidentiality, harming participants
or compromising their anonymity.
Best Practice: Anonymize or pseudonymize data where possible, use secure data storage
systems, and limit access to authorized personnel.

(c) Ethical Concern: Participants should take part in surveys voluntarily, without pressure
or undue influence. Offering excessive incentives or using authority (e.g., employer-
employee dynamics) can pressure individuals into participation.
Best Practice: Avoid pressure tactics and make it clear that participation is optional.

(d) Ethical Concern: Researchers may face pressure to manipulate data or misreport
findings.
Best Practice: Upholding honesty and transparency is critical to maintaining ethical
standards in research.

RESULTS AND ANALYSIS

Research Data/Results

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(a) Discuss the results of your research based on the data you have collected from
SLR/Interview/Survey to answer your research question/research objective.

Analysis and Discussion

(a) Revisit the research question(s) and discuss how your proposed solution answers those
questions (i.e., discuss your proposed solutions based on your research data). Here, you need
to establish a direct connection between your proposed solutions with the research objective
(RQs) based on your research data.

 If required demonstrate and visualize your proposed solutions in various diagrams

describing the process of your solutions.
 Integrates alternate and divergent ideas or processes to solve the problem mentioned in
the introduction section.

For Example:
RQ1: …………………..
o Write here the answer of RQ1 according to the research data presented in Result section.

RQ2: …………………..
o Write here the answer of RQ2 according to the research data presented in Result section.

Solution Validation

(a) Provide a description of how you plan to test/verify your proposed solution. And what are the
results of your test/verification. For example, provide a description of the accuracy of your
research findings. This can be done by:
 Comparing your research findings with the results of other existing published studies
 Using some mathematical formula to prove your findings are logically consistent.
 Applying your findings to the real-world case or simulation software tools

CONCLUSION
Provide discussion of the overall coverage of the article and concluding remarks.
o Define the project/thesis objective again considering the existing problems and challenges.
o Discuss your data collection/data analysis process in providing solutions.
o Discuss the thesis/project solutions and with any significant remarks.

Limitation of the Study

o Provide a description of the limitations of your study

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Future Research Scope
o Provide a description of how future researchers can extend your study further.

REFERENCES
o Use a single reference style (i.e., APA) to provide references to citations you have used in the
article.
o One reference can be cited maximum 3 times in the article text.

APENDIX (OPTIONAL)
Appendices are at the end of the manuscript and, if more than one, numbered with numerals.
Any Figure or Table numbering should continue from article body. If Figure or Tables are not
called out and explained within the article, please provide prior to its placement within the
Appendix.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT (Optional)
Any acknowledgment to fellow researchers, funding grants, and conflicts of interest should be
placed within this section. Funding agencies and conflicts of interest statements are now required
in all journal article submissions based on information we have received from the indices.

Funding Agency (Optional)

All journal articles are required to have funding information at the end of their articles. Articles
that are being published under the traditional, subscription-based model in Hybrid Open Access
journals could provide funding information if an outside source funded their ability to do their
research but did not fund open access publishing. If the authors have received no funding for
their article, please see below under the “No Funding Information” heading.

Article Format:

o Page Limit: Maximum 10 pages (including all sections in the template)

o Text Style: Times New Roman
o Text Size: 12
o Text Alignment: Justify
o Paragraph/Line Space: 1.0
o Paragraph Alignment: left indent, one line gap between paragraphs
o Keep one line gap before and after the heading and sub-heading.
o Provide figure/table number and title of the figure/table and refer this figure/table number in
the text.

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o Do not use first or second person (I, me, my, we, us, our, you…). Instead use “this article” or
“the authors”.

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