Midnight Rain in Saskatoon

It is midnight here in Saskatoon. I am about to sleep, and suddenly I found that it started raining. From my childhood, I have a secret admiration for the rain. When I was a little boy, we had a tin-shaded room, and I and my grandmother used to live there. I remember, when it rained in the day and night, I used to lie down and listened to the rainfall on the tin. I enjoyed that a lot. Often, I used to sit on a chair, and watch the rainfall in the yard. I do not know why the rain makes me happy. Yes, I have the first love experience with rain, that may be a cause; but, I liked rain more earlier.

Probably, this good feeling came from the poem I read--"Pallibarsa" by Jasim Uddin. I am not that much fond of poem, but this is the only poem which scratched my heart. I can easily imagine the picture drawn in this poem, which is the most charismatic part of it. I can imagine the village woman waiting for her loved one to return home in the rainy day, and she is sewing her happiness and sorrow in the nakshi katha. This is not going to happen in my case, but sometimes, I like to think that way.
Lovely rain, come and drench me!

Midnight Rain in Saskatoon

It is midnight here in Saskatoon. I am about to sleep, and suddenly I found that it started raining. From my childhood, I have a secret admiration for the rain. When I was a little boy, we had a tin-shaded room, and I and my grandmother used to live there. I remember, when it rained in the day and night, I used to lie down and listened to the rainfall on the tin. I enjoyed that a lot. Often, I used to sit on a chair, and watch the rainfall in the yard. I do not know why the rain makes me happy. Yes, I have the first love experience with rain, that may be a cause; but, I liked rain more earlier.

Probably, this good feeling came from the poem I read--"Pallibarsa" by Jasim Uddin. I am not that much fond of poem, but this is the only poem which scratched my heart. I can easily imagine the picture drawn in this poem, which is the most charismatic part of it. I can imagine the village woman waiting for her loved one to return home in the rainy day, and she is sewing her happiness and sorrow in the nakshi katha. This is not going to happen in my case, but sometimes, I like to think that way.
Lovely rain, come and drench me!

Anatomy of a Research Paper (Part I)

This is a simple structure I follow for any conference paper.

Abstract

• 1-2 sentences: Why are you doing this?
• 1-2 sentences: What are you proposing, and what it does.
• 1-2 sentences: What experiment you did and what are the results
• 1-2 sentences: What is the finding after comparison against existing approaches?
• Always write the abstract after completing the whole paper.

Introduction

• First paragraph====
• What problem are you trying to solve?
• Who face this problem? Is it really an important problem to solve?
• How to solve the problem? Is your proposal is a potential way to solve the problem?
• Second paragraph====
• What are the existing approaches that tries to solve the same problem, and how they try to do that (using short hints)?
• If there exists no such study, then your approach is a novel one. But think twice, does your approach really make sense? Possibly talk to another person and get feedback.
• If there exists some studies, what are their limitations and restrictions?
• Use inline numbering to point out the limitations
• Third paragraph=======
• What system/approach you are proposing?
• What it does, and solves the mentioned problem in para 1?
• Does it solve the limitations of the existing approaches? If yes, you are on the right way.
• Use inline numbering to point out how it solves the limitations.
• Fourth paragraph=========
• Experiments: what data set you used, and what are the results?
• Did you compare against the existing approaches? What are the findings there?
• Are the overall results are promising? If not you can consider to repeat the experiment to reach a satisfactory level.
• You can consult the literature to check whether your results make sense or not.
• Last paragraph====
• Mention rest of the sections in the paper.

Motivating Example

• Show the most appealing feature of your proposal, may be with a diagram or snapshot of your tool.
• Start a problem scenario with the user like a story.
• Show how the problem cannot be solved by existing approach.
• Show the problem can be easily solved by your approach.

Background

• Think about the theoretical concepts your had to learn for this research.
• Also add other theoretical topics that you know clearly, but it will help the reader to understand your work.
• Most of the concepts will be found in Wikipedia. You can learn from the site, but use your own language to describe the concept.

Proposed Approach

• This section will contain different parts of your proposed solution.
• Let me guess, you are proposing an algorithm (theoretical) or an approach (not purely theoretical) or a prototype that implements the approach or a pure tool such a visualization tool.
• If you are proposing an algorithm develop a flow chart, if you are proposing an approach make schematic diagram.
• Then discuss your approach or algorithm step by step in subsections and refer to the diagram.
• If you are proposing metrics, they should be before the main algorithm.
•  Also discuss how the result of your algorithm will be presented to the users.
• If you are proposing a tool, make a block diagram or a snapshot that shows different working modules of the tool.
• Discuss different features of your approach referring to the module in the diagram, and solve different example problem scenarios.
• Here the scenarios should be more technical, detailed and entertaining.
• If are proposing an approach with a prototype, then provide a short overview of the tool in the first subsection, and then focus more the approach. The tool does not exist without the approach.

So far you have everything that your are proposing. Now comes the experiment which will show whether your IDEA works or not.

Content Suggest Paper Draft Done

As planned, there would be four parts of the thesis, and the third part is content suggest. The tool extracts the noise-free as well as the most relevant content from a web page exploiting the technical details of an encountered exception in the IDE. The draft is ready and under review by the supervisor. However, I got some free time, and trying to restructure the paper of Mukta. Also need to entertain myself for big task coming. Also, looking for a BIG IDEA for ICSE conference. At some points, I started thinking that I am getting the best paper award in ICSE this year.! Who knows, it may happen this year or may be next year !! I am such a terrible dreamer. I did that before admission in KU, and ALLAH made that true. I do not know how did that happen, but it did. That is a miracle and a gift of my life. All praise to HIM, who made that true.

Content Suggest Paper Draft Done

As planned, there would be four parts of the thesis, and the third part is content suggest. The tool extracts the noise-free as well as the most relevant content from a web page exploiting the technical details of an encountered exception in the IDE. The draft is ready and under review by the supervisor. However, I got some free time, and trying to restructure the paper of Mukta. Also need to entertain myself for big task coming. Also, looking for a BIG IDEA for ICSE conference. At some points, I started thinking that I am getting the best paper award in ICSE this year.! Who knows, it may happen this year or may be next year !! I am such a terrible dreamer. I did that before admission in KU, and ALLAH made that true. I do not know how did that happen, but it did. That is a miracle and a gift of my life. All praise to HIM, who made that true.

Spring at Saskatoon and My thoughts

Spring is the most desirable season in every winter dominated country, and Canada is not an exception. I live in Saskatoon for about 2 years, doing my Master's in Computer Science. One thing happens to me when spring or summer comes in Saskatoon every year. When I leave the lab at the dask and start walking for home, I get amused by the amazing weather, gentle breeze, chirping of the birds, and calmness of nature.  That time, I also subconsciously return to the golden past I passed. I remember my stay at JCC, remember the friends, and remember a few closed ones whoever came to my life. Sometimes, I think of the strange and irreversible rules of life, which are so painful and beautiful. If I were not given this life, I could have never enjoyed this life. But alas! I cannot go backward and forward in my walk of life. Probably, I am just sharing my feelings in this blog only, and when I would check it after few years, I might laugh at myself. Who knows?

Spring at Saskatoon and My thoughts

Spring is the most desirable season in every winter dominated country, and Canada is not an exception. I live in Saskatoon for about 2 years, doing my Master's in Computer Science. One thing happens to me when spring or summer comes in Saskatoon every year. When I leave the lab at the dask and start walking for home, I get amused by the amazing weather, gentle breeze, chirping of the birds, and calmness of nature.  That time, I also subconsciously return to the golden past I passed. I remember my stay at JCC, remember the friends, and remember a few closed ones whoever came to my life. Sometimes, I think of the strange and irreversible rules of life, which are so painful and beautiful. If I were not given this life, I could have never enjoyed this life. But alas! I cannot go backward and forward in my walk of life. Probably, I am just sharing my feelings in this blog only, and when I would check it after few years, I might laugh at myself. Who knows?