In this course, we go through the basic research methods, including performing literature reviews and documenting your findings. At the beginning of the course, you must choose a topic of interest to you (preferably already with the aim to grow your Master’s thesis out of it) and develop it throughout the semester by making use of what we discuss during classes to the fullest extent. You are also expected to give several talks during the semester about your progress.

Some potential project topics can be found on this website.  Others will be proposed to you by several researchers from the Departments of Computer Systems and Software Science. This will be done in the form of invited talks that will be given during the first few lectures.

To get an overview of the course from a student’s perspective, please consider studying an essay that is attached to this page.