A while since anything has been posted, but it is only quiet on the surface: trying to make progress on optimisation, which is currently going slowly. But anyway, onto some documentation:
Notes from meeting with Will F2F 4-Oct: PSO report
- do not put numbers in the abstract
- the aim in an introduction is the vision for report; you occasionally write benefits, but this might overlap with motivation
- roadmap: a case of including something like “chapter 1 does x, chapter 2 does y, etc”. However there is a one line summary of each chapter, for example “chapter 1 is the background to particle swarm optimisation, because they show…”
- Try to type shorter sentences: apparently prose is shorter when spoken with Dragon NaturallySpeaking then went height
- aim to remove excess of words from sentences i.e. words that do not add anything for example “… had ever been developed” — ever being the word to be dropped
- use “objective” instead of the word “desire”
- in an abstract indicate what insight/novelty has been produced by the work, the pearl of wisdom from studies. For example what is novel about particles organisation; try to highlight the conclusions from studies, for example what is the main thing about particle swarm optimisation
- try not to include quotes; rewrite them in your own words and then reference them
- thought: the usage of relative topologies in particle swarm optimisation instead of fixed distances, in other words the use of local distanced neighbourhoods instead of topological neighbourhoods
- when discussing people do not talk about the person themselves, but instead talk about working the area e.g. the main contribution from each person
- try the ground everything in science and do not use analogies
- use the word “chart” instead of the word “graph”
- do not use the word “believed”, instead use the word “considered”
- thought: look at page 68 Small Worlds, look at the characteristic path length
- check consistency around the hub versus ring versus wheel terminology in the topologies section
- “it is considered”/”it could be hypothesised” is terminology used by myself
- book: 6° by Duncan Watts
- in the discussion effectively put “x, y, z say that this is good, i, j say this is bad”, then say what you think
- conclusion or summary: a summary goes at the end of a chapter; the overall piece ends with a conclusion
- optimisation: look at Daryl Whiteley’s criticism of the No Free Lunch argument (look in Will’s thesis available through the University’s website, and his modern heuristic notes
