Welcome to our Research Group. This onboarding guide is designed to provide you with essential information and resources to help you navigate through our research community effectively.
Where Am I?
University of Campinas (Unicamp):
– General Information
– Academic life and services provided
Institute of Computing (IC):
– General Information
– Information for students
– Courses
– Classrooms
Computer Science Graduate Program (PPGCC):
– General Information
– Important information
– Comprehensive Presentation
– Program Plan
Useful Links:
– DAC
– Cartão universitário
– Prefeitura universitária (restaurant menus, bus schedules)
Note: to use the RUs (University Restaurants) you must have a university card and add credit in advance, using Pix or cash in the machines located at the entrances to the restaurants.
Rules and Regulations
Unicamp and PPGCC:
– General Regulations for Postgraduate Courses at Unicamp
– Graduate Program (PPGCC) Regulation
– Credit Fulfillment Requirement for Regular Students
– Rules and Criteria for the Assignment and Maintenance of Scholarships in the Graduate Program
– English Proficiency Exam
– Teaching Internship Program (PED) – Mandatory to some students
– Requirements for Master’s Thesis Defense (Summary)
– Requirements for PhD Candidate to Schedule Thesis Defense
– Requirements for PhD Thesis Defense (Summary)
– Graduate Program Calendar
Good Practices
– Know how to listen (to your advisor and other people along your journey);
– A Master’s degree is a short shot, don’t waste time on things that aren’t a priority; Reasoning helps in the doctorate too;
– Always write, and in English! It helps to have material that is almost ready and that will make it easier to “get ideas out of your head” and identify gaps;
– Try it! Always!
– Did you stuck? Request a meeting!
– Always bring something formatted for discussion to the meeting
– If you realize that it’s been a month and nothing significant has happened, yes, that’s a bad sign! Get organized or request a meeting.
– Biweekly feedback!
– Literature review is constant. At least one article per month
Lists to sign (and keep an eye on CFPs)
Lists:
– Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC)
– SEWORLD
Conferenses:
– CBSoft (SBES, SBCARS, …)
– SBQS
– CIbSE
– ICSE
– FSE
– ESEM
– EASE
Tools and Environments
– Schedule an appointment – Scheduling meetings with a minimum of 48 hours’ notice. Canceling meetings with a minimum of 12 hours’ notice
– Tools and information (IC)
– VPN (Unicamp)
– Discord
– Overleaf
– Mendeley
– DMP – Signin with your institutional account
– Zenodo – For FAIR and Open Science data produced in papers
– REDU
Important Templates
– Official IC Thesis/Dissertation Style
– ACM template for research papers – To import into Overleaf
– IEEE template for research papers – To import into Overleaf
Materials
Research Methodology:
– Differences Between Content Analysis and Thematic Analysis
– Research Methodology in Computer Science – Introduction (ICMC-USP)
– Research Methods for Computer Science (Ryerson University)
– Scientific Methodology in Computer Science (Unicamp)
– How to do your Research Project: A guide for students (Book)
– Critically reviewing literature: A tutorial for new researchers
– Types of Research Methodologies
– Writing a scientific article: A step-by-step guide for beginners
– Differences Between Research Methods and Research Methodology
– Differences Between Questionnaires and Interviews
– Differences Between Survey and Questionnaire
– Differences Between Meta Analysis and Meta Synthesis
– Differences Between Factor Analysis and Principal Component Analysis
– Differences Between Meta Analysis and Systematic Review
Software Engineering:
– Experimentation in Software Engineering (Book)
– The Evidence-Based Paradigm (Chapter)
Statistics:
– Probability and Statistics for Computer Science (Book)
– Statistics Fundamentals (Youtube playlist)
– Differences Between Ordinary Least Square and Generalized Least Square
– Linear Regression vs Logistic Regression
– Differences Between Simple and Multiple Linear Regression Model
– Differences Between Robust Regression and Linear Regression
– Differences Between Random Effect Model and Fixed Effect Model
– Differences Between Regression and Causation
– Differences Between Regression and Correlation
– Differences Between Correlation and Covariance
– Differences Between Correlation and Causation
– Differences Between R Squared and Adjusted R Squared
– Differences Between R, R Squared and Adjusted R Squared
– Differences Between Durbin Watson Test and Wooldridge Serial Correlation Test
“Quality” and Impact of journals and conferences
– Website to search for the Qualis of an event/journal.
– Top publication venues in Software Engineering – Google’s h5-index
– CORE conferences in Software Engineering – The Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE) classification
– Journal Impact Explanation
