<TITLE OF THE PRE-THESIS>

A Pre-Thesis Report

Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement for the Award of Degree of

MASTER OF ENGINEERING

(<Name of the Department>)

To

PANJAB UNIVERSITY, CHANDIGARH

Submitted by

<Name of the Candidate>

(Roll Number: <>)

(Enrollment Number: <>)

Under the Supervision of

<Name of the Supervisor (s)>

<Affiliation of the Supervisor>

<Name of Supervisor(s) Institute/University>

<NAME OF THE DEPARTMENT>

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL TEACHERS TRAINING AND RESEARCH

SECTOR 26, CHANDIGARH-160019, INDIA

<YEAR>

CANDIDATE’S DECLARATION

I, <Name of the candidate>, student of M.E (Name of the Department), National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh, bearing Roll Number------ submit this pre-thesis work entitled “Title of the pre-thesis” to Panjab University, Chandigarh, India for the award of the Master of Engineering degree in <Name of the Department> and declaring that the work done is genuine and produced under the guidance of <Name of the Supervisor>.

I further declare that the work reported in this project has not been submitted and will not be submitted, either in part or in full, for the award of any other degree in this institute or any other institute or university.

Date:	Name of the candidate

Place: NITTTR, Chandigarh	Roll No. ___________

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that, this pre-thesis report titled “Title of the pre-thesis” submitted by <Name of the candidate> bearing Roll Number _______ is bonafide record of the research work carried out by her in partial fulfillment for the requirement of the award of Master of Engineering (Name of the Department) degree from Panjab University, Chandigarh at National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh. This pre-thesis has not been submitted to any other University or Institution for the award of any degree.

SUPERVISOR

<Name of the Supervisor (s)>

<Affiliation of the supervisor>

<Name of Supervisor(s)

Institute/University>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would first like to thank my thesis advisor [title] [Name Surname] of the [Faculty name] at [University name] for the continuous support of my thesis, for his/her patience, motivation, enthusiasm, and immense knowledge. His guidance helped me in all the time of research and writing of this thesis. I could not have imagined having a better advisor and mentor for my thesis study. He/She consistently allowed this thesis to be my own work, but steered me in the right the direction whenever he thought I needed it.

Besides my advisor, I would like to thank the rest of my faculty members: [List professional Titles, Name and Surnames of the faculties who participated/contributed], for their encouragement, insightful comments, and hard questions.

I would also like to acknowledge [title] [Name Surname] of the [School / Faculty name] at [University name] as the second reader of this thesis, and I am gratefully indebted to his/her for his/her very valuable comments on this thesis.

Finally, I must express my very profound gratitude to my parents and to my [partner, spouse] for providing me with unfailing support and continuous encouragement throughout my years of study and through the process of researching and writing this thesis. This accomplishment would not have been possible without them. Thank you.

<Name of the Candidate>

ME (Name of the Department)

(Roll Number: <>)

(Enrollment Number: )

ABSTRACT

An abstract is a greatly condensed version of a longer piece of writing that highlights the major points covered, and concisely describes the content and scope of the writing.

Abstracts give readers a chance to quickly see what the main contents and sometimes methods of a piece of writing are. They enable readers to decide whether the work is of interest for them.

For example: This project describes the development of a real-time interface for the scheduling system at St. Nicholas Hospital in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. This interface allows data to be passed from one system to another, without user intervention. The interface was developed using the TLINK interface engine, which follows the Health Level Seven coding standard.

This project goes on to discuss Managed Health Care, the principles of Managed Care, and issues and concerns regarding the use of Information Technology in Health Care. Batch and real-time interfaces are reviewed, along with the advantages and disadvantages of using the Health Level Seven (HL7) standard. Systems development in Health Care Organizations is also discussed.

A prototyping technique was selected because it was useful in this project’s situation where the requirements were not well defined and time was limited. A step-by-step prototyping technique was documented, and the results were reported. Several screen shots are presented to show what the prototype looks like. Furthermore, how the prototype can be developed into the full functioning system is also discussed in this project. As a result of this project, St. Nicholas Hospital now has a full functioning real-time HL7 interface from the clinical system to the scheduling system.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page Number
Candidate’s Declaration
Certificate
Acknowledgement
Abstract
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Motivation
2. Literature Survey
2.1 Literature Survey
2.2 Inferences drawn from Literature Review
3. Proposed Work
3.1 Problem Definition
3.2 Objectives
3.3 Methodology
3.4 Expected Outcomes
3.5 Hardware and Software Requirements
List of References
List of Publications
Plagiarism Report

1. INTRODUCTION

The Introduction section introduces the main problem, explains its background with focus on major issues of its domain and finally clarifies why these issues are worthy of attention. Justification of why these issues are important should also be included. The introduction should seek to catch the readers' interest and it should be written in a style that can be easily understood by reader of any background.

1.1 FIRST PARAGRAPH

1.1.1 SUB PARTS OF FIRST PARAGRAPH

1.1.1.1 Sub Parts of 1.1.1

1.2 SECOND PARAGRAPH

1.2.1 SUB PARTS OF SECOND PARAGRAPH

1.2.1.1 Sub Parts of 1.2.1

All the relevant references should be cited wherever required. The citation numbering should be strictly increasing and continuous as the pre-thesis is read.

This section is usually written in the present tense

2. Literature Survey

In this section, extensive review and documentation of the existing work relevant to the research problem is presented. It includes the motivation behind your work and gives a wide range of information about the problem you propose to solve. Literature review is, in a way, the deciding factor for the character of research. The evaluator must get a clear idea of all the study you have done by reading the literature review chapter.

Each work reviewed should be accompanied by comprehensive references which are then listed at the end of Pre-thesis. The Literature Survey may span multiple pages and can be split into various subsections or paragraphs and must comply with the format explained in the Introduction section.

This section is strictly written in third person and in the past tense. All the reviewed literature MUST follow a uniform format for naming the authors and how et al. is used. It is important to note that the way in which authors names appear in the literature, in the same way they must be listed in the respective reference. e.g.: In the example below, the authors full name is Rodrigo Roman, so if in literature R. Roman is used, the same should be mentioned in the references as in [1-3].

Literature Survey - Example Saeid et al. [1] have proposed two algorithms for workflow scheduling based on the Partial Critical path to find the optimal solution in terms of minimal cost subject to the defined deadline constraints. IC-PCP tries to schedule the tasks on partial critical path by allocating them to the available instances of the service before its latest finish time. IC- PCP2 uses the new method for path assigning policy and planning is done such that the remaining time of the available instance is used first to execute the task before its sub-deadline, rather than starting a new instance of the service. Kalra et al. [2] have presented a broad review and comparative analysis of the three existing metaheuristic techniques (GA, PSO and ACO) along with two novel methods (BAT and League championship algorithm)for workflow scheduling in distributed computing (grid and cloud). A change in transitional operators, a high quality seed for initial population and a hybrid algorithm, can enhance the quality and the convergence speed of the optimal solution. The authors have also discussed some open issues for future research work. D. P. Chandrashekar [3] has proposed different resource allocation strategies and an algorithm which provides robustness. The tasks are scheduled using both the models in order to reduce cost and meeting the deadline. The proposed algorithm is fault tolerant against prior termination of tasks and also robust against performance variations of resources. They have used checkpointing at regular interval and rollbacking is done in case of failure. It also minimizes the total elapsed time and cost. W. T. Strayer et al. [4] extended the SPIE architecture to provide accurate tracing of single IP packets through an IPv6 network. The work analyzed the packet digesting and transformations recording functions for both IPv4 as well as IPv6 networks. The authors argued that 28 bytes of IPv4 packet provided enough entropy to the digest function whereas in the case of IPv6 it was 1232 bytes. SPIE method suffered from the problem of false positives (in Bloom filter) and required massive router storage to store information of all incoming packets. Also, if the path reconstruction process was instigated after the routers refreshed their tables, a number of false negatives occurred and the victim was unable to construct the attack tree.

3. Proposed Research

3.1 Problem Definition

Explain the research problem by describing ideal state of affairs and back up with your assertions.

3.2 Objectives

Includes "WHAT TO" component of the proposed research i.e. what you plan to do to solve the problem stated in section 3.1 An objective is an intent of what the researcher wants to do in clear measurable terms. Basically, research objectives are goals to be achieved during the research.

Use these S.M.A.R.T. guidelines to try and develop your objectives:

Specific – avoid general statements, include detail about what you are going to do.

Measureable – there should be a definable outcome.

Achievable – be realistic in what you hope to cover, don’t attempt too much. A less ambitious but completed objective is better than an over-ambitious one that you cannot possible achieve.

Realistic – think about logistics. Are you practically able to do what you wish to do? Factors to consider include: time; expense; skills; access to sensitive information; participant’s consent; etc.

Time constrained – be aware of the time-frame of the project. - See more at:

Verbs to consider when writing learning objectives include, but are not limited to: analyze, dissect, detect, test, deconstruct, discriminate, distinguish, examine, focus, find coherence, survey, compare, contrast, classify, investigate, outline, separate, structure, categorize, solve, diagram, determine evidence and conclusions, judge, calculate, criticize, debate, experiment, identify, illustrate, infer, inspect, inventory, question, relate, select, coordinate, select, decide, rate, debate, evaluate, justify, recommend, verify, monitor, test measure, appraise, assess, compare, conclude, contrast, plan, criticize, discriminate, estimate, explain, interpret, relate, revise, score, summarize, support, value, create, hypothesize, design, construct, invent, imagine, discover, present, deduce, induce, bring together, compose, pretend, predict, solve, organize, modify, improve, suppose, produce, set up, propose, formulate, arrange, assemble, categorize, collect, revise, combine, devise, explain, generate, manage, perform, prepare, rearrange, reconstruct, argue for, relate, reorganize.

3.3 Methodology

Includes "HOW TO" component of the proposed research. It includes the methods that you intend to use and the reason for opting those methods.

3.4 Expected Outcomes

Gives an indication of what you expect to get out of research.

3.5 Hardware and Software Requirements

The hardware and software requirements should be mentioned here.

References

In this section, you should list all the references that you made throughout the pre-thesis, making sure that you comply with the referencing conventions. Following a uniform and correct reference style is important because a wrong style can cause your entire dissertation to be rejected, or at the least lowering of your grades. Below are given a few examples of references complying with the requirements of IEEE

Journal

[1] R. Roman, P. Najera and J. Lopez, "Securing the Internet of Things", Computer, vol. 44, no. 9, pp. 51-58, 2011.

[2] X. H. Dang, E. Albright and A. A. Abonamah, "Performance analysis of probabilistic packet marking in IPv6," Computer Communications., vol. 30, no. 16, pp. 3193–3202, 2007.

Conference Proceedings

[3] K. H. Choi and H. K. Dai, "A Marking Scheme using Huffman Codes for IP Traceback," 7th International Symposium Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks (SPAN’04), Hong Kong, China, May 2004, pp. 421-428.

[4] W. T. Strayer, C. E. Jones, F. Tchakountio and R. R. Hain, "SPIE-IPv6: Single IPv6 Packet Traceback," 29th Annual IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN’04), Tampa, Florida, USA, Nov. 2004, pp. 118-125.

Chapter in a Book

[5] S. Raza, C. Keppitiyagama and T. Voigt, "Security and Privacy in the IPv6-Connected Internet of Things," in Cyber-Physical Systems, FL, USA: CRC Press, 2016, pp. 241-258.

Book

[6] T. H. Cormen, C. E. Leiserson, R. L. Rivest and C. Stein, "Introduction to Algorithms," Cambridge, MA: MIT Press and Mc-Graw Hill, 2001.

Online Sources

[7] OWASP Internet of Things Project - OWASP, Owasp.org, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Internet_of_Things_Project. [Accessed: 03- May- 2017].

Thesis/Dissertations

[8] J. O. Williams, “Narrow-band analyzer,” Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. Elect. Eng., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, 1993.

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