The course does not have a final exam and no fixed curriculum that must be read by all students. Below is a list of suggested readings, some of which have also been the topics of lectures, grouped according to the various learning goals of the course.

About computing research in general

About research methods

Research and research methods in general:

  • Creswell, J. W. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches

  • Donald Stokes: Pasteur's Quadrant - Basic Science and Technological Innovation, Brookings 1997.
  • Wayne C. Booth, Gregory C. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams: The Craft of Research, The University of Chicago Press, 2003.
  • Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion and Keith Morrison: Research Methods in Education, RoutledgeFalmer, 2000.
  • Colin Robson: Real World Research, Blackwell, 2002.

Proofs, matemathical modeling, simulation:

  • Gary Chartrand, Albert D. Polimeni, Ping Zhang: Mathematical Proofs - A Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Addision-Wesley, 2003.
  • Kevin Dooley: "Simulation Research Methods". In Joel Baum (ed.): Companion to Organizations, Blackwell, 2002, pp 829-848, http://www.public.asu.edu/~kdooley/papers/simchapter.PDF

Literature reviews:

  • Chris Hart, Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the social science research imagination, Sage, 1998.
  • Barbara Kitchenham, Procedures for performing systematic reviews, Tech.rep.Keele University, UK, July 2004, 33 p.

Design science:

  • Hevner, S. March, J. Park, and S. Ram, Design Science Research in Information Systems, Management Information Systems Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 75-105.
  • Vijay K. Vaishnavi and William Kuechler Jr. Design Science Research Methods and Patterns: Innovating Information and Communication Technology, Auerbach, 2007.

Experiments

  • Normand L. Frigon and David Mathews, Practical Guide to Experimental Design, Wiley, 1997.
  • Andy Field and Graham Hole, How to design and report experiments, Sage, 2003.
  • Thomas D. Cook and Donald T. Campbell, Quasi-Experimentation: Design & Analysis Issues for Field Settings, Houghton Miffin, 1979.
  • Adrian Burr and Mal Owen, Statistical Methods for Software Quality: Using Metrics for Process Improvement, Thomson Computer Press, 1996.
  • George E. P. Box, William G. Hunter, and J. Stuart Hunter, Statistics for Experimenters, Wiley, 1978.
  • Tichy, W. F., Should Computer Scientists Experiment More? IEEE Computer, 31(5), May 1998, 32-40
  • Zelkovitz, M. V., & Wallace, D. R, Experimental. Models for Validating Technology, IEEE Computer, May,. 1998, pp. 23-31.

Surveys, statistics:

  • Don A. Dillman. Mail and Internet Surveys - The tailored design method, Wiley, 2000.
  • Louis M. Rea and Richard A. Parker. Designing and Conducting Survey Research - A comprehensive guide, Jossey-Bass, 1997.
  • Baroudi, J.J., and Orlikowski, W. J.: The Problem of Statistical Power in MIS Research, MIS Quarterly 13(1):87-106, March 1989.
  • W. E. Deming, Some Theory of Sampling, Dover, 1950.
  • Siegel and Castellan, Nonparametric Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Qualitative research methods

  • Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin, Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques, Sage, 1990.
  • Siverman, D. Doing Qualitative Research, Sage, 2000.
  • Ernest T. Stringer, Action Research, Sage, 1999.
  • Steinar Kvale, InterViews: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing, Sage, 1996.
  • Jane F. Templeton, The Focus Group: A strategic guide to organizing, conducting, and analyzing the focus group interview, McGraw-Hill, 1994.
  • Robert K. Yin, Case Study Research: Design and Methods, Sage, 2003.
  • Robert K. Yin, Appliciations of Case Study Research, Sage, 2003.

On how to write good papers and theses

  • Rowena Murray: Writing for Academic Journals, Open University Press, 2005.
  • Rowena Murray: How to write a thesis, Open University Press, 2002.
  • Joseph M. Williams: Style - Toward Clarity and Grace, University of Chicago Press, 1990.
  • Mary Shaw: Writing Good Software Engineering Research Paper, In Proc. ICSE 2003 pp 726-737.
  • Bimal K. Bose: How to get a paper accepted in TRANSACTIONS?, http://tie.ieee-ies.org/tie/HowToTransactionsPaper.pdf
  • Claes Wohlin: An analysis of the most cited articles in software engineering journals - 2000, Information and Software Technology 49(1):2-11, January 2007.

Examples of good research (and good papers) at IDI

Survey papers

  • Aamodt Agnar and Plaza Enric, Case-based reasoning : Foundational issues, methodological variations, and system approaches, AI Communications, 7(1), March 1994.
  • Reidar Conradi and Bernhard Westfechtel, Version models for software configuration management, ACM Computing Surveys, 30(2):232-282, 1998.

Analytical research papers

  • Jan Komorowski: An Introduction to Partial Deduction. META 1992: 49-69
  • Odd Ivar Lindland, Guttorm Sindre, Arne Sølvberg: Understanding Quality in Conceptual Modeling, IEEE Software, March 1994.

Design science

  • Arne Halaas, Børge Svingen, Magnar Nedland, Pål Sætrom, Ola R. Snøve Jr., Olaf René Birkeland: A recursive MISD architecture for pattern matching. IEEE Trans. VLSI Syst. 12(7): 727-734 (2004)
  • Will Archer Arentz, Bjørn Olstad: Classifying offensive sites based on image content. Computer Vision and Image Understanding 94(1-3): 295-310 (2004)
  • Kjetil Nørvåg: The Vagabond Approach to Logging and Recovery in Transaction-Time Temporal Object Database Systems. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 16(4): 504-518 (2004)
  • Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland, Monica Divitini: Collaborative virtual environments for supporting learning communities: an experience of use. GROUP 2003: 58-67

Experiments:

  • Kjetil Nørvåg: Granularity reduction in temporal document databases. Inf. Syst. 31(2): 134-147 (2006)
  • Myhrer, Per Trygve; Stålhane, Tor. Student experiment using Preliminary Hazard Analysis. The 4th International Workshop on Critical Systems Development Using Modeling Languages, 2005.

Questionnaire surveys:

  • John Krogstie, Arthur Jahr, Dag I. K. Sjøberg: A longitudinal study of development and maintenance in Norway: Report from the 2003 investigation. Information & Software Technology 48(11): 993-1005 (2006)

Action research:

  • Torgeir Dingsøyr, Geir Kjetil Hanssen, Tore Dybå, Geir Anker, Jens Olav Nygaard: Developing Software with Scrum in a Small Cross-Organizational Project. EuroSPI 2006: 5-15
  • Jørn Braa, Eric Monteiro and Sundeep Sahay. Networks of action: sustainable health information systems across developing countries, MIS Quarterly, 28(3):337-362, 2004. Special issue on Action research

Case studies:

  • Knut H. Rolland and Eric Monteiro. Balancing the local and the global in infrastructural information systems, The Information Society,18(2):87-100, 2002
  • Torgeir Dingsøyr, Hans Karim Djarraya, Emil Røyrvik: Practical knowledge management tool use in a software consulting company. Commun. ACM 48(12): 96-100 (2005)
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