Название: Research Techniques for Computer Science, Information Systems and Cybersecurity
Автор: Uche M. Mbanaso, Lucienne Abrahams, Kennedy Chinedu Okafor
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2023
Страниц: 187
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.26 MB

This book introduces impact-driven research paths in computer science, information systems and cybersecurity with practical insights, effective instructions, and examples. The book takes the students through the full cycle of research until the point of submission and evaluation. The book begins by providing postgraduate research students with the foundational concepts and techniques to simplify the complexities associated with choosing topics in the Computer Science (CS), information systems (IS) and cybersecurity (CY) research domains. The authors furnish readers with fundamentals that facilitate active quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research enquiries. The content offers important perspectives on how to think about deepening research in CS, IS and CY, noting that these subjects can be studied from computational sciences, engineering sciences, health sciences, social sciences, or interdisciplinary perspectives.

Undisputedly, this unique book is a ‘must read’ for postgraduate students, and in particular PhD researchers pursuing research in CS, IS, and CY. I strongly recommend this textbook to postgraduate students as it pragmatically introduced research activities and processes in the fields of computer science (CS), information systems (IS), and cybersecurity (CY) in a phased-out fashion. The chapters are presented in chorological order, making the book self-explanatory and a holistic tutorial masterpiece for understanding the full life cycle of any research endeavour. I am persuaded that this shall remain a valuable handbook for scholars who wish to maintain competative edge as top-rated researchers, particularly in CS, IS, and CY.

The book is organized into eight chapters. Chapter 1 introduces twenty-first century postgraduate research, including the concepts of research, research types, research attributes, research cycle, philosophical research design and quality in research writing, among others. Chapter 2 gives an overview of computer science (CS), information systems (IS) and cybersecurity (CY) research, and the intersection amongst them is highlighted. Chapter 3 focuses on designing the research proposal, or interim report. In this regard, the discussion explains the need to understand the research proposal as a structured motivation to undertake and produce original research. Chapter 4 presents the concept of the funnel strategy and mind mapping to visualize research design. Chapter 5 focuses on the necessary skills for research writing, and for writing the background discussion, the literature review and analytical framework. Chapter 6 sets out key issues in research theory: philosophy, design and methodology. Chapter 7 explains processes in data collection, data presentation and data analysis. Chapter 8 wraps up the book with ideas about research planning and research management.