------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PH.D. THESIS STRUCTURE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 0. Prelims (title page, Table of Contents, List of Figures, List of Tables, Acknowledgements, Abstract, List of Abbreviations, Note-on-access-to-contents) CHAPTER-1: Introduction (incl. overview of thesis) CHAPTER-2: [Literature review] of previous work in area of focus of Ph.D. (sometimes this may be more than 1 chapter) CHAPTER-3: [CONTRIBUTION] description of unique theoretical contribution to Computer Science given in form of algorithms/heuristics (and sometimes mathematical description) (i.e. The Thesis !) CHAPTER-4: Implementation description of implementation (computer program) which acts as a testbed for the unique theoretical [CONTRIBUTION] CHAPTER-5: Evaluation results from testing and evaluating the unique theoretical [CONTRIBUTION] (using the implementation) CHAPTER-6: Conclusion (includes summary, relation to other work, future work) 7. Appendices 8. References (use Harvard/Chicago Style; e.g.: Solon, Anthony J., Paul Mc Kevitt and Kevin Curran (2007) ``TeleMorph: a fuzzy logic approach to network-aware transmoding in mobile Intelligent Multimedia presentation systems'', Special issue on ``Network-Aware Multimedia Processing and Communications'', A. Dumitras, H. Radha, J. Apostolopoulos, Y. Altunbasak (Eds.), IEEE Journal Of Selected Topics In Signal Processing, 1(2) (August), 254-263.) see example Computer Science Ph.D. theses on http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/~paul/phd/ Dr. Minhua (Eunice) Ma Dr. Nazlia Omar Dr. Anthony G. Solon Dr. Glenn G. Campbell soon: Jonathan P. Doherty [Abbas/Sheila are next...] (Note that these have a similar (standard) structure) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------