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Special Criteria for Student Research Papers Submitted for the Competition in Technical Sciences and Applied Mathematics

Requirements for the design of the work Recommended work structure Rules and Limitations Application Package

Requirements for the design of the work

  1. Remove any names of authors, co-authors and the academic supervisor from the paper’s text, header/footer, and the title page. IMPORTANT! Information on the author(s), academic supervisor, and the place of study shall ONLY be included in the application form
  2. Limit the size of your paper to 60,000 characters (including spaces). This includes total character count of the file, with a bibliography, appendices, a title page, and a table of contents.
  3. Save your file in .doc, .docx, .rtf or .pdf. format. The file size must not exceed 200 MB.

Recommended work structure

Not all items must be present in the competition work. Below is an approximate structure of the work with a brief description of the content of the items.

  1. Abstract and keywords
    After the abstract, please indicate the keywords and/or classifiers for the respective subject field. For an example of this, check out the personal page of your supervisor. This will help the expert committee select the appropriate reviewers, who can best evaluate your work.
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
    Describe in short the subject field. Indicate that your work is focused on finding a solution to a relevant problem (relevance) and the new idea you are proposing (innovation). Write about the object of your research (object of research) and what part of the object of research will be analyzed (subject of research) – for Master’s students and graduates. What is the key goal of your paper? What objectives should be met in order to achieve this goal?
  4. Main Part
    1. Literature review
      1. description of contemporary situation in the subject field;
      2. comparative analysis of current analogues;
      3. selection of technical solutions/methods/models/algorithms;
    2. Theoretical section:  justify theoretical solutions, prove theorems, describe newly designed / utilized technical solutions/methods/models/algorithms
      AND / OR 
    3. Practical section:  describe technical solutions / their implementation / experiments and analyze generated results. If one of the key results of your work is a technical solution or a software product / IT solution, please provide a photograph of the solution, links to repositories with source codes / run files / information system. You may also provide a link to a video to demonstrate the operation of the technical solution, software solution / hardware and software solution / information system.
    4. Discussion of results
      1. Provide a list of key results generated. Make sure to specify which results were obtained personally by the author. This is very important for experts, since scientific research is usually conducted collectively, and experts evaluate your work.
      2. Specify the academic innovation / practical value of your solution (each aspect of innovation/practical value should be concisely formulated in one sentence. E.g., “… was developed…, and it differs in that it…”);
      3. Highlight your individual contribution (e.g., “section XXX describes the author’s ideas for modifying the algorithm”);
      4. Possible applications of the generated results;
      5. Areas of further research.
  5. Conclusion
  6. Bibliography
    (presented in alphabetical order and in line with GOST standards)

Example of list formatting:

Bibliography

1 Aggarwal, C. Mining text data / Charu C. Aggarwal, Checng X. Zha. – USA: Springer Publisher Company, 2012 – 522 с. - Book

2 Agrawal, S. Dbxplorer: a system for keyword-based search over relational databases / S. Agrawal, S. Chaudhuri, and G. Das // Proceeding of the 18th Intl. Conference on Data Engineering. – IEEE Computer Society – 2002 – С. 5-16. – Article in a conference collection

3 Banerjee, A. A generalized maximum entropy approach to Bregman co-clustering and matrix approximation / A. Banerjee, I. Dhillon, J. Ghosh, S. Merugu, D. Modha // Journal of Machine Learning Research – 2007 – vol. 8 – С. 1919-1986. – Journal article

4 Brin, S. The pagerank citation ranking: Bringing order to the web / L. Page, S. Brin, R. Motwani, and T. Winograd // [Электронный ресурс]: Technical Report 1999-66. – Режим доступа: свободный. (дата обращения: 05.04.15). – Online publication


Rules and Limitations

  • The research paper for the competition should be written individually or in co-authorship with other students (no more than five co-authors).
  • A research paper written in co-authorship by bachelor’s, specialist’s, and master’s students should be submitted for the competition by a Master’s student.
  • The competition welcomes research papers written in Russian or English.
  • Research papers written in co-authorship with an academic supervisor are NOT accepted for the competition.
  • Each applicant can submit no more than two different works, but ONLY one work can be submitted in one competition track.
  • If your work does not meet the requirements, you will find out within seven working days from the date of submission. Violation of requirements does not mean that you can no longer participate in the competition. If the submission deadline has not expired, you have time to fix the shortcomings and resubmit!
  • Do not send plagiarism. Works with plagiarism are removed from the Competition by the Organizing Committee, and their author is deprived of the opportunity to participate in future competitions.

Application Package

  • a competition application indicating the subject area, nomination, information about the author(s) and academic supervisor (if any);
  • for students - a copy of a student ID card and/or a certificate of attendance (for participants who are not students of HSE University);
  • for alumni - a copy of an education and/or qualification document (for participants who are not alumni of HSE University);
  • the text of research paper submitted for the competition.