Establish a basic familiarity with fundamental concepts of research

This is assignment aims to establish a basic familiarity with fundamental concepts of research
methods including literature review, referencing, research design, data collection and
qualitative design.
Objectives:
On completion of this assignment, you should be able to:
• understand critical literature review,
• understand the research design and
• understand data collection and qualitative research.
Specifications:
This assignment consists of two parts. Complete all parts.
Part A: Annotated bibliography and literature review (10 marks)
Select five papers about Cloud Computing from IEEE Explorer, SpringerLink, Google Scholar,
DBLP and/or ScienceDirect (or other suitable sources). Create an annotated bibliography for
these papers, using latex or Endnote. It must contain the following contents:
a. Citation
b. Introduction
c. Aim and research method
d. Scope
e. Usefulness
f. Limitations
g. Conclusions
Note: since you will use these papers for Part B, you should select papers which are
suitable for your knowledge and discipline, i.e., it can be related to topics in information
systems, information technology, or computer science.
Part B: Critical literature review, qualitative design and qualitative analysis
Using the method of exploratory design, design your research on a topic about Cloud
Computing. Your design should consist of the following phases:
a. Critical literature review
b. Identifying a research problem,
c. Survey, and
d. Qualitative analysis.
Critical literature review (10 marks): review these papers you selected in Part A and write a
report to summarise them including
a. describe related work,
b. describe the significance and contribution of each paper and compare them,
c. describe the limitations, and
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d. identify a research problem you want to address.
Research proposal (10 marks): Your proposal should cover the following aspects:
a. the background and research problem,
b. the review of literature or theoretical framework of the study,
c. objectives or aims,
d. the methodology and procedure of the study,
e. implications or significance of the problem,
f. expected outcomes and
g. bibliography.
Survey – Questionnaires (10 marks): With the research problem in mind, create
questionnaires to collect the information you want to use to derive the answer or solution to
your research problem. Your questionnaires should be written in two A4 papers and can consist
of any number of questions. Find ten people who can answer your questionaries and collect
their answers.
Keep in mind that you will adopt a coding method in your qualitative analysis, therefore, you
should embed proposed code words in your questionnaires.
Qualitative analysis (10 marks):
You should follow the following procedure for you qualitative analysis:
a. Compiling,
b. Disassembling (using a proper coding method),
c. Reassembling (using multi-level coding to derive a conclusion),
d. Interpreting and
e. Concluding.

 

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