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System Integration |
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Dedicated to the dissemination of System Integration information |
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Week Minus Two |
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Dates: 21.1.2007 to 27.1.2007
The main effort of the past week has been spent doing a literature search; this is basically looking for dissertation, thesis, scientific papers etc, that are relevant to my dissertation.
The dissertation is titled: -
An investigation into major system partitioning to help ensure system integration uses the least man hours.
So my literature search involved the main topics of System Integration (S.I.) and system partitioning. I am sure there are other ways of defining system partitioning, at design time, but I have decided to split the process up into two main methods, horizontal partitioning and vertical partitioning.
I had done some literature searching in previous weeks but, having looked through the results, decided that I didn’t have enough refereed papers on either subject, particularly system partitioning.
Through the Open University I have access to a lot of refereed papers so I have spent a lot of time trawling through relevant papers to see if any are relevant to my dissertation subject.
There is surprisingly little, there are a lot of papers about S.I. with certain products but not a lot about S.I. in general, there is even less about generalised system partitioning. Given that my subject combines the two, and investigates the relationship, there is nothing, as far as I can see, about how the two subjects interact. On saying that I found one magazine article that says their has been no studying into how the two interact - I suppose that is something!
I have ended up with about ten refereed papers that could be considered relevant in some manner so that is enough to get started.
I have also been doing some investigations about how to complete a dissertation in general, how to organise your studies, time management etc. The main thing I have learnt is to create a plan.
It was once said that the best thing about a plan is not the plan but the planning, i.e. you need to think about what you are going to do when you create a plan. Creating a plan will help me define how I am going to complete my dissertation, what I need to do and when.
A plan also serves as something that you can measure your progress against, if I am falling behind I would want to know as soon as possible so that I can up my effort, I would hate to find how, one day, that I am two months behind, I think that would be practically impossible to recover from.
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