02152 Concurrent Systems        Fall 2008
General Report Requirements

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The reports will be assessed with an emphasis on a clear presentation, soundness of justifications, relevance of the subproblems on which you have focused, and the technical contents.

The present requirements are expected to be met as a minimum. A report should, of course, also satisfy ordinary expectations with respect to organisation and presentation (identification of authors, numbering of pages and sections, table of contents, paper layout, use of language, spelling, etc.)

Organise your work so that you do not put your main effort into things which you should have mastered earlier in your study. Start with those problems that are new and characteristic, not problems that you have solved before.

You probably want to get feedback as early as possible. That puts an obligation on all to be brief. Reports should contain all details about your work, but most of this may go into appendices. The main text should be brief and present the work in such a way that an assessment can be based on that alone - within 20-30 minutes.

Program texts should in most cases appear as appendices. You can have program sections in the main text, if they are important enough for the emphasis that they get hereby. An overview of program text should be given, e.g. as pseudocode with appropriate indications of where to find the actual code (preferably filename, line number, report page and line). Focus on why and what much more than on how.

Reports may be written in English or Danish. Reports in Danish should adhere to the Danish terminology wherever possible.

Reports must be handed in on paper. If program files are also required to be available electronically, detailed instructions will be provided by the particular assigment text.

Observe:

• The front page should identify the full context of the report, ie. university, department, course, term, assignment, group, participants and delivery date.
• In the beginning (possibly at the front page) of the report, there should be a paragraph indicating the contributions of each participant to the various parts of the work. This should be confirmed by the signatures of all participants. The main contribution(s) of each participant should be emphasized. [DTU requirement.]

• All work is expected to be carried bout by the group itself. Any collaboration with other groups (including any sharing of material) must be explicitly declared at the start of the report. Failing to do so will be considered a cheating attempt any of which will be reported to the University Administration. Adaption of others' work is strictly prohibited.
• Students that have participated in the course before and have handed in similar assignments previously must explicitly state this at the start of the report. Any reuse of previous work must also be declared.
• Reports handed in after the deadline without prior agreement with the teacher will not be evaluated.

• Late reports are accepted only in very special situations.

Hans Henrik Løvengreen, Sep 24, 2008