Special Criteria for Student Research Papers Submitted for the Competition in Technical Sciences and Applied Mathematics

Requirements for the design of the work

1. Remove any names of authors, co-authors and the academic supervisor from the paper’s text, header/footer, and the title page. IMPORTANT! Information on the author(s), academic supervisor, and the place of study shall ONLY be included in the application form
2. Limit the size of your paper to 60,000 characters (including spaces). This includes total character count of the file, with a bibliography, appendices, a title page, and a table of contents.
3. Save your file in .doc, .docx, .rtf or .pdf. format.

Recommended work structure

Not all items must be present in the competition work. Below is an approximate structure of the work with a brief description of the content of the items.

1. Abstract and keywords
   After the abstract, please indicate the keywords and/or classifiers for the respective subject field. For an example of this, check out the personal page of your supervisor. This will help the expert committee select the appropriate reviewers, who can best evaluate your work.
2. Contents
3. Introduction
   Describe in short the subject field. Indicate that your work is focused on finding a solution to a relevant problem (relevance) and the new idea you are proposing (innovation). Write about the object of your research (object of research) and what part of the object of research will be analyzed (subject of research) – for Master’s students and graduates. What is the key goal of your paper? What objectives should be met in order to achieve this goal? You should concisely spell out your plan for future research: describe the subject field, explain its relevance, innovation and practical importance of the selected topic, formulate research goal and objectives, which should be reached in order to achieve this. The experts will review the execution of your research plan in the section “Discussion of results”.
4. Main Part
   1. Literature review
      1. description of contemporary situation in the subject field;
      2. comparative analysis of current analogues;
      3. selection of technical solutions/methods/models/algorithms;
   2. Theoretical section: justify theoretical solutions, prove theorems, describe newly designed / utilized technical solutions/methods/models/algorithms
      AND / OR 
   3. Practical section: describe technical solutions / their implementation / experiments and analyze generated results. If one of the key results of your work is a technical solution or a software product / IT solution, please provide a photograph of the solution, links to repositories with source codes / run files / information system. You may also provide a link to a video to demonstrate the operation of the technical solution, software solution / hardware and software solution / information system.
   4. Discussion of results
      1. Provide a list of key results generated. Your research project should be complete and coherent. Make sure to specify its objectives and provide answers to the questions: What is being studied (object of research)? What part of the object is being examined (research subject)? What is the key goal of your research? What objectives should be met to reach that goal? Which experiments prove that your goal has been achieved? Your answers to these questions will allow the experts to assess your examination of the topic and the completeness of your research.
      2. Specify the academic innovation / practical value of your solution (each aspect of innovation/practical value should be concisely formulated in one sentence. E.g., “… was developed…, and it differs in that it…”);
      3. Highlight your individual contribution (e.g., “section XXX describes the author’s ideas for modifying the algorithm”). You need to indicate which results were obtained personally by the author. This is very important for experts, since scientific research is usually conducted collectively,and experts evaluate your work.
      4. Possible applications of the generated results;
      5. Areas of further research.
5. Conclusion
   Provide a short description of the results (up to one page). Your conclusion should describe the results of your work and subsequent conclusions. In this section, you should provide a summary of the “Discussion of results” section. The results indicate what was produced/achieved (should be described using verbs in the past tense). Conclusions mean what can be done in the future based on the achieved results (should be described using verbs in the future tense).
6. Bibliography
   (presented in alphabetical order and in line with GOST standards)

Example:

Bibliography

1 Aggarwal, C. Mining text data / Charu C. Aggarwal, Checng X. Zha. – USA: Springer Publisher Company, 2012 – 522 с. - Book

2 Agrawal, S. Dbxplorer: a system for keyword-based search over relational databases / S. Agrawal, S. Chaudhuri, and G. Das // Proceeding of the 18th Intl. Conference on Data Engineering. – IEEE Computer Society – 2002 – С. 5-16. – Article in a conference collection

3 Banerjee, A. A generalized maximum entropy approach to Bregman co-clustering and matrix approximation / A. Banerjee, I. Dhillon, J. Ghosh, S. Merugu, D. Modha // Journal of Machine Learning Research – 2007 – vol. 8 – С. 1919-1986. – Journal article

4 Brin, S. The pagerank citation ranking: Bringing order to the web / L. Page, S. Brin, R. Motwani, and T. Winograd // [Электронный ресурс]: Stanford InfoLab, Technical Report 1999-66. – Режим доступа: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/, свободный. (дата обращения: 05.04.15). – Online publication

Rules and Limitations

• The research paper for the competition should be written individually or in co-authorship with other students (no more than five co-authors). Research papers written in co-authorship with an academic supervisor shall not be accepted for the competition
• Each applicant can apply with no more than two papers, and only one paper can be submitted for a single field. 
• A research paper written in co-authorship by bachelor’s and master’s students, should be submitted for the competition by Master’s students.
• The competition welcomes research papers written in Russian or English.
• For more information on the formatting criteria for research papers, please refer to Annexes No.1 and No.2, as well as recommendations on the website, along with the application form. Should your paper fail to comply with these requirements, you’ll be informed within seven workdays after your application’s submission.
• Violation of these requirements doesn’t mean you are no longer eligible for the competition. If the application period has not expired, you still have time to fix the errors and re-apply!
• Do not send plagiarism. Works with plagiarism are removed from the Competition by the Organizing Committee, and their author is deprived of the opportunity to participate in future competitions.

Application Package

• a competition application indicating the subject area, nomination, information about the author(s) and academic supervisor (if any);
• for students - a copy of a student ID card and/or a certificate of attendance (for participants who are not students of HSE University);
• for alumni - a copy of an education and/or qualification document (for participants who are not alumni of HSE University);
• the text of research paper submitted for the competition.