Course Notes on Science and Practice in Software Engineering

Contents:

• Overview
• Science and Knowledge
  • Intuitive Meaning of Science
  • Creation of Knowledge
  • Definition of Science
  • Categories of Science
  • Science as Compression of Knowledge
• Publications
  • Open Access and Open Science
  • Publishing Fees
  • Paper Repositories
  • Bibliographic Data
  • Ideal Requirements for Publishing
  • Unique Identification
• Publications: Details
  • Open Access and Open Science
  • Paper Preprint
  • Contributing to Software:
  • Making copyright and licenses explicit
  • Artifacts
  • Publication Process
• Bibliographic Data and Rankings
  • Bibliographic Data
  • Measurements and Rankings
  • Why Rankings?
  • Important Rankings and Platforms
• Career
  • Selecting a research topic
  • Identifying Research Areas
• Peer Reviews
  • Types of Reviews
  • Reviewing Systems
  • Roles in the Review Process
  • Conference Schedule
  • Review Structure
  • Review Principles
  • Advantages of Doing Reviews
  • Rebuttals
• Authorship
• Good Scientific Practice
  • Conflict of Interest
  • Plagiarism
• Evaluation of Research
  • Competitions
  • Experiments
  • Data Analysis
  • Surveys
  • Proofs
  • Excourse: Numbers in LaTeX
• Technical Hints for Writing Papers
  • Paper Structure
  • Paper Content
  • Methodology for Paper Writing
  • Text editing
  • Comments
  • Macros
  • Writing Style
  • Types of Hyphens and Dashes
  • BibTeX
  • Repository Organization
• Grant Proposals