Writting PhD Thesis

Monday, September 25, 2006

Dear All,

Here is the season for writting thesis and award of degrees. Even I am planning to be a part of this race so, started writing thesis. The content is as below.

Table Of Content

1 Introduction And Statement Of The Problem

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Problem Statement

1.3 Organization Of The Thesis

2 Literature Review

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Phylogenetic Trees And Supertree

2.2.1 Preliminaries

2.2.2 Existing Phylogenetic Supertree Methods

2.2.3 Research Direction

2.3 Phylogenetic Networks

2.3.1 Preliminaries

2.3.2 Existing Phylogenetic Network Construction Methods

2.3.3 Research Direction

2.4 Automatic Phylogenetic Question Answering System

2.4.1 Preliminaries

2.4.2 Automatic Question Answering Chronicle

2.4.3 Research Direction

3 Distance Based Supertree Construction

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Background

3.3 UPGMA And Its Variant

3.3.1 Standard UPGMA

3.3.2 Failure Of Standard UPGMA

3.3.3 UPGMA Variant

3.4 The DISTSUPERTREE Algorithm

3.5 Properties Of The DISTSUPERTREE Algorithm

3.6 Experimental Evaluation And Comparisons

3.7 A Heuristic Algorithm For Unrooted Supertree

3.8 Conclusion

4 Supertree With Ancestral Divergence Time

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Background

4.3 Conditions For Conflicts In Divergence Date Statements

4.4 An Algorithm For Supertree With Ancestral Time Divergence

4.4.1 The Divcompat Algorithm

4.4.2 The Ddatesupertree Algorithm

4.5 Performance Evaluation And Illustrative Example

4.6 Working Of The Algorithm By An Example

4.7 Conclusion

5 Supertree For Semi-Labeled Taxa

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Background And Preliminaries

5.3 The Resolvedsupertree Algorithm

5.4 Application Of Different Distance Based Phylogenetic Tree Construction Algorithms

5.4.1 DISTSUPERTREE

5.4.2 Matrix Representation Of Parsimony

5.4.3 Average Consensus Method

5.5 Performance Evaluation And Conclusion

6 Phylogenetic Network Construction With Recombination

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Background And Preliminaries

6.3 Conditions For Detection Of Recombination Nodes

6.4 Phylogenetic Network Construction Algorithm

6.4.1 The Node_Class Algorithm

6.4.2 Working Of The Algorithm With An Example

6.4.3 Correctness And Time Complexity Of The Algorithm

6.5 Discussion And Conclusion

7 Automatic Phylogenetic Question Answering System

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Phyqa: System Architecture

7.2.1 Document Preprocessing

7.2.2 Term Weighing And Scoring

7.2.3 Question Classification

7.2.4 Query Formulation

7.2.5 Answer Extraction

7.2.6 Answer Ranking

7.3 Performance Evaluation

7.3.1 Evaluation Metrics

7.3.2 Experimental Evaluation

7.4 Conclusions

8 Conclusion And Suggestions For Future Work

8.1 Conclusion Of The Thesis

8.2 Scope Of Future Work


Dont know how fast I will complete it. My suppervisor asked me to submit it by the end of this month. I think I can do it but need do it with concentration.

C U soon with the first draft of the PhD thesis.