Course No: 0907703
Course Name: Research Methodology

Microsoft Team: Link

Textbooks:

• Wayne Booth, George Colomb, Joseph Williams, Joseph Bizup, and William FitzGerald, The Craft of Research, 4th Edition, The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
• Raj Jain, The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis, Wiley, 1991.

Handouts and Slides:

• Course Syllabus (pdf)
• Course Introduction (pdf)
• Part I: Research, Researchers, and Readers (pdf)
• Part II: Asking Questions, Finding Answers (pdf)
• Part III: Making an Argument (pdf)
• Part IV: Writing Your Argument (pdf)
• Part V: The Ethics of Research (pdf)
• Information about the project (pdf)
• Chapter 1: Contents of the performance evaluation part (ppt)
• Chapter 2: Common Mistakes (pdf)
• Chapter 3: Selection of Techniques and Metrics (pdf)
• Chapter 4: Types of Workloads (pdf)
• Chapter 5: Workload Selection (pdf)
• Chapter 6: Workload Characterization Techniques (pdf)
• Chapter 7: Monitors (pdf)
• Chapter 10: Data Presentation (pdf)
• Chapter 11: Ratio Games (pdf)
• Chapter 12: Summarizing Measured Data (pdf)
• Chapter 13: Comparing Systems (pdf)
• Chapter 16: Introduction to Experimental Design (pdf)
• Chapter 17: 2 to power k Factorial Designs (pdf)
• Chapter 24: Introduction to Simulation (pdf)
• Chapter 25: Analysis of Simulation Results (pdf)

Videos:

Solutions:

• Midterm and final exams (pdf)

Grades and Attendance:

• Grades sheet (pdf)

Last update on 27/4/2022