Your group is to submit a one or two-page written proposal for the project with an initial bibliography. The due date is in the course calendar. It is advisable to get going early; I will gladly accept proposals before the deadline. This assignment gives the teaching stuff a chance to review and approve your project proposal, and to suggest references that you may have overlooked.

Attention: Submit your project proposal in one of the following formats ONLY: PDF, HTML, ASCII text. Proposals in any other formats will be discarded. Only first two pages will be read.

You are also encouraged to arrange a short meeting with the course staff to discuss what you want to do for the project. The deadline for such a meeting is specified in the course calendar.

The following are the questions that your project proposal should address in brief, if it's a design project:

1. What is the problem we are going to address?
2. Why is this problem important?
3. How is this problem currently addressed by others?
4. What is the way we are proposing to address the problem?
5. Why and in what respect is our way to address this problem is going to be better than those developed by others?
6. What is our plan for completing the project and submitting the report by the deadline (see the course calendar)?

For analysis projects, the questions are similar but need to be adjusted for specific analysis cases. I leave it up to the project teams to come up with specific questions for analysis projects.