Introduction
On November 20th, 21st and 22nd 2023, the School for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS) is organising the annual three-day course “Research methods and methodology for IKS”. Although the course is primarily intended for SIKS Ph.D. students, other participants will not be excluded. However, their number of passes will be restricted and will depend on the number of SIKS Ph.D. students participating in the course.
“Research methods and methodology for IKS” is relevant for all SIKS Ph.D. students (whether working in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science or in Information Science). The primary goal of this hands-on course is to enable these Ph.D. students to make a good research design for their own research project. To this end, it provides an interactive training in various elements of research design, such as the conceptual design and the research planning. But the course also contains a general introduction to the philosophy of science (and particularly to the philosophy of mathematics, computer science and AI).
In addition, the course addresses such divergent topics as “Research methods for Multi-Agent Systems”, “Research methods for Machine Learning” and “Research methods for Information Retrieval”. More recent topics are “Research Methods for Process Mining” and “Philosophy of Data Science”.
“Research methods and methodology for IKS” is an intense and interactive course.
First, all students enrolling for this course are asked to read some pre-course reading material, comprising of some papers that address key problems in IKS methodology. These papers will be sent to the participants after registration. Secondly, all participants are expected to give a brief characterisation of their own research project/proposal, by answering a set of questions, formulated by the course directors, and based on the aforementioned literature. We believe that this approach will result in a more efficient and effective course; it will help you to prepare yourself for the course and this will increase the value that you will get from it.
Course coordinators
Hans Weigand (TiU), Roel Wieringa (UT) and Richard Starmans (UU/TiU)
Location
The course will take place at hotel Landgoed Huize Bergen in Vught, near Den Bosch.
Program
A detailed program will be available shortly.
Registration
Registration will open soon.
Information for non-SIKS Ph.D.- students
SIKS needs a confirmation from your supervisor/office that they agree with the arrangement and paying conditions.
