SYDE 522 Machine Intelligence

Midterm Report

The midterm report can be prepared in a group of maximum 4 students (same group as the course project). This report consists of two components:

A: Critical Literature Survey Paper

Students will pick a machine intelligence problem that interests them.
The students will be asked to put themselves in the shoes of authors of a conference or a journal survey paper.
They are supposed to search the literature for approaches to tackle this problem.
They survey and discuss the relative strengths of each approach.
Then they suggest a taxonomic classification of these approaches showing how they are related or how they can be classified based on different well-defined criteria.
The paper will be 4-6 pages. Student must comply strictly with the formatting instructions using IEEE Manuscript Templates.

B: Paper Critics

The students must pick a paper recently published (2013-2015) in one of the journals/transactions/magazines listed below.
The students will be asked to put themselves in the shoes of a reviewer for a conference or journal.
They should give constructive feedback to the authors.
They will mention the good and weak aspects of the paper.
For every criticism, students will make a suggestion to improve the paper.
Paper Critics form must be used.