Editing Small World Networks 2008 (section)

=== Week 5 ===
Wenrui(Linda):

last week, we did our proposal seminar, I didn't do that well, I talked too much about the hierarchical networks. However, I didn't clearly explain something important, and didn't include something important. e.g.

- we should include a plan for our software design.

- I should talk more about our Gantt chat, and as well as the break down structures.

- In the risks analysis part, the idea is to talk about the technical risks in the project itself, but not some personal issues.

- We should include the discussion of the data sets we will use.

- We should include the discussion of relevance to electrical engineering.

- we should mention what is our aim for the project.

- we should include the slides to explain finding shortest path,  analyzing network efficiency, finding important hubs, finding weaknesses that can cause failure of a network, identifying weaknesses that make the network vulnerable to attack.

During the presentation, we learned our lessons, i.e. if we couldn't answer the question from the audiences, at least we should try to say something which is related to the question, it's very bad to just stand there and say nothing. if couldn't understand the question, just ask them to ask in a easy way. if still cannot answer, then we can say:" good question, We do not know the answer to that and we will definitely follow it up later."

For the coming week, I am planning to work on the software design. I will basically read the algorithms on the internet. hopefully I can write some simple code myself, and start to test it with the Mini networks.



Zhujian(Sweet):

This week, we just finished our proposal seminar. There were some weaknesses in our presentation, but we will improve these next time. The biggest problem for me is too nervous to listen to the questions. After prsentation, I just recalled these and found I could answer most of these. That is the most important thing I need to improve.

For the coming week, we will start some matlab analysis and read the references about our project.