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Further...
the section you call your lit. review may not be 1 chapter
it could be 2 chapters or more.
This chapter begins by briefly describing the history, definitions and values of the doctoral
degree before providing a critical review of the literature, identifying and analysing current
knowledge and understanding surrounding the research focus of traditional, practice-
based and professional doctoral study. New forms of knowledge and innovations in
doctoral degrees are discussed followed by issues in doctoral practice. Where salient,
comparisons will be made between doctoral programs in Australia and elsewhere,
although discussion is mainly focused on the situation in Australia.
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Lit. Review body
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Jones (2003) argues that...................................................
............................................ He also states that................
Paragraph 1 ............................ However, he believes that ....................
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Simple literature review using two topics:
Source:
Gato, S. (2006) Forecasting urban residential water demand. Unpublished PhD thesis. Retrieved from
http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/uploads/approved/adt-VIT20070202.113452/public/02whole.pdf
CHAPTER 2
Source:
Wallace, G. (2006). Macroeconomic reform of the building and development process: The development and outcomes of
building regulation reform in Australia 1990-2003 Unpublished PhD thesis. Retrieved March 25, 2010, from
http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20070205.123414/
Source:
Song, H. (2007). The role of Information and Communication Technologies in Knowledge Management:
From Enabler to Facilitator. Unpublished PhD thesis. Retrieved March 25, 2010, from
http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080521.150600/
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Conclusion or summary (cont.)
Thefieldofinformationretrievalisbothvastandvariedwithagreatnumberofsignificantcontributions
inrecentyears.Suchadvancescanbefoundinfundamentalprinciples,suchasthesimilaritymetrics
usedandinterestingsearchsystemaugmentations,suchasquerydifficultypredictionalgorithmsand
priorbasedresultenhancement.Improvementsindiskcapacitiesprocessandthevastquantitiesof
datathatarebecomingavailablehavecontributedtotheseadvances. However,thesefactorsalso
continuetodrivethedemandforfasterandmoreaccuratesearch.
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Asthescaleofcollectionsgrow,demandsforaccesstodiskbasedinvertedlists,vocabularyand
documentmappingtableentries,andcollectionfilesalsoincreases.Previouscachingtechniques
havefocusedonthecachingofinvertedlistsandresultsets,buthavenotconsideredotherdata
structures.Indexorganisationsthatallowdynamicquerytimepruninghavethepotentialtofurther
improveinvertedlistcaching,yettodatehavenotconsideredthehistoryofqueriesthatuserspose
tothesearchsystem.Similarly,whilethemostsuccessfultechniquestopredictquerydifficultyhave
reliedontherelationshipbetweenthequeryandthecollection, theyhaveyettoconsiderpast
queries.
Insubsequentchapterswebuilduponthebackgroundworkpresentedinthischapter.Weexamine
therepetitioninquerylogsandproposetechniquestoreorganisetheindexformoreefficientquery
evaluation.Inthisregardweexplorequeryevaluationoptimisationtechniquessuchasstaticand
dynamiclistpruning,indexcompressionandcollectionreordering.Continuingourexplorationof
searchengineefficiencytechniquesweexploretheeffectsofsearchenginecachingandproposea
modeltomeasuretheimpactofdifferingcachingtechniquesatsearchtimeusingrealquerylogs
andcollections.Finally,wederiveinformationfromquerylogsforuseasexternalevidenceand
considerthisfirst,asaformofdocumentpriorandsecond,for thetaskofdifficultyprediction.
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