Guidelines for the LaTeX Projects for

SE "Master Seminar I"

WS 2022/23

The topic of your project is the same as for your presentation. The goal is to summarize your presentation and to give some further background material.
Use the tools provided by pdfLaTeX, Ipe, tgif and the other program packages discussed by me in the seminar.
In any case, your document must contain at least one self-made figure and a bibliography with at least five entries of scientific(!) publications. (Attention: Youtube videos, articles in c't Magazin and the like are not scientific publications!)
Of course, scanning an image does not count as making a figure.
The use of drawing packages (or other tools) that were not discussed in the seminar requires a very good justification and, in any case, my explicit consent!
The file template.tex serves as a template for the basic layout of your document.
You are welcome to extend this template by loading additional LaTeX packages and defining your own commands, as long as you do not change the basic layout.
The resulting document should be 250 lines long, excluding the bibliographical information ("literature"), with a tolerance of ±5%.
Note that in the case of figures/tables, only the corresponding (sub-)headings are included in the total number of lines. That is, we count lines rather than pages!
Your document has to be understandable by fellow AISP students without the presentation slides (and vice versa).
Your project will the graded relative to its contents and its realization by means of LaTeX. (Your advisor will assess the contents, and I will check out your LaTeX coding.) Hence, you should not only create the content "somehow", but strive to achieve a reasonably elegant solution in pdfLaTeX!
Please try to submit your project file by mid February. In any case, you have to submit your file by the end of February 2023!
Once your project file has been submitted (and you have received a confirmation from me), your project will be deemed to have been submitted. New submissions as "after-iterations" are useless and will generally not be accepted by me, no matter what "good" reasons you may put forward for a renewed submission of a modified project file.
When submitting your project, please pay attention to the following purely formal guidelines:
- Absolutely all files that I'd need for editing or modifying your project must be submitted! In particular, include also the .obj/.pdf files of your figures! If sketches were made using Mathematica, I also need the corresponding Mathematica files (.nb). Generally not needed are .ps, .aux, .log, .dvi, .html, .jpg, .gif, ... files!
- Please create a .tar file from your project files and use your (ASCII-transliterated) name as name for the archive. (So, it would something like "mueller.tar" or "wang.tar".)
- Please make sure that you package your files in this .tar file such that when unpacking, a directory with your name (in lower-case letters) is created as directory name. No tar bombs, please!!
- You may (and, likely, should) compress the .tar file; you can use gzip or bzip2 for compression. (But, please, no other compression tools!)
- Please store your files in Unix format, and not in some other file format (DOS, ...).
- Please send me your project file as one email attachment.
If you develop your project on a private machine then it seems very reasonable to test it on one of the Institute's Linux machines well before the due date. In case of doubt or dispute, sshstud.cosy.sbg.ac.at here at the CS Department of PLUS will be the test computer.
Project files that are not prepared in accordance with these guidelines will automatically be down-graded. (And this can lead to a down-grading to NGD5 in case of multiple violations of the guidelines!)
The bottom line is that I need to be able to use pdfLaTeX to process your project without any customizations and modifications on the Linux machines of the department. A project that cannot be processed by pdfLaTeX without modifications required to fix errors is automatically graded with 0 points!
Late policy: Late hand-ins of your project files will be accepted but the point score on your presentation will go down by 10 points per day that you are late, without further ifs, ands, or buts. (E.g., handing in your files on 02-Mar-2020 will result in a score that is 20 points below the score that you would have earned if you had handed in your files by the due date.)
Upon receipt I will supply your advisor with a PDF file of your document. (Your advisor will get that file in the morning of 06-March-2023 at latest.)
I expect to get your advisor's short evaluation together with a point score (between 0 and 50) by 20-March-2023 at latest.
Please make sure to brief your advisor accordingly. If this deadline is not met then you risk not to receive a grade on this seminar!

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