ITC571 - Emerging Technologies and Innovations: Weekly Progress Report

This assignment is a weekly progress report for the ITC571 course, focusing on the development of an employee management system using emerging technologies and innovations. The report details the project's milestones, including choosing a research area, developing an annotated bibliography, defining research objectives, designing a research methodology, and conducting experiments. Each week's progress is outlined, including planned versus actual achievements, issues encountered, and actions taken. The project involves selecting a suitable topic, reviewing peer-reviewed journals, developing an annotated bibliography, defining research objectives, justifying the solution in terms of originality, designing a research method, experimental setup, and architectural design. The student faced challenges like tight schedules and data mining software changes. The final weeks involve obtaining volunteers for experiments, evaluating test results, and completing the project report. The report showcases the iterative process of research, experimentation, and refinement in the application of AI in employee management.

Weekly progress reports
Weekly Progress Report
Full Name
Student ID
Subject ITC571 – Emerging Technology and Innovations
Assignment No Weekly Progress Report
Due Date
Lecturer’s Name Malka N. Halgamuge
Web link of your blog/website: http://thinkspace.csu.edu.au/
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Week 2:
NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Emerging Technologies and Innovation: Employee
Management System for ABC
WEEK NO: DATE:
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Choose a suitable
area and topic of
research
Review available
topics and areas
of research
Select a suitable
research area
Completed on
Time
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
Selected suitable Completed Yes
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topic and research
area
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Week 3:
NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Emerging Technologies and Innovation: Employee
Management System for ABC
WEEK NO: 3 DATE:
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
To have written an
annotated
Bibliography for six
journals
Select six suitable
peer reviewed
journals on
emerging trends
and technologies
on employee
management
systems from
approved sources
and read through
them
Managed to
identify and read
FIVE peer reviewed
journals and
developed an
annotated
Bibliography for
Five articles
Was short of
target by one
article (5 read
instead of 6)
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
Tight college
program meant I
did not read all the
targeted articles
and use them to
develop an
annotated
bibliography for 6
articles
Developed part of
bibliography with
five articles, instead
of six
No
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Week 4:
NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Emerging Technologies and Innovation: Employee
Management System for ABC
WEEK NO: 4 DATE:
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Complete the
annotated
bibliography
section
To identify and
read and
understand
SEVEN peer
reviewed articles
from approved
databases for
purposes of
developing the
annotated
bibliography
Managed to
identify, read, and
understand SEVEN
peer reviewed
articles and
developed an
annotated
bibliography with
TWELVE articles
Completed the
annotated
bibliography
section as
planned, with a
total of 12 articles
reviewed
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
Had to change two
articles after finding
them unsuitable for
research topic
Removal of two
articles from the
bibliography and
adding two new
articles
Yes
4

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Week 5:
NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Emerging Technologies and Innovation: Employee
Management System for ABC
WEEK NO: 5 DATE:
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Define research
objectives and
develop an original
solution
Define the
research
objectives,
evaluate past
related works,
justify the solution
in terms of
originality after
identifying the
research gap after
a literature review
Managed to
introduce my
research by
identifying the
research aim,
evaluating past
related works,
justifying the
solution in terms of
originality after
identifying the
research gap after
a literature review
Task completed
on time
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
Correcting
introduction section
Removed certain
irrelevant sections
from the review and
followed provided
template
Yes
5

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Week 6:
NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Emerging Technologies and Innovation: Employee
Management System for ABC
WEEK NO: 6 DATE:
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Finalize research
approach and
methodology
To design a
suitable research
method and
approach, source
any relevant tools
and materials for
the research
Managed to choose
a suitable
experimental
research design for
the project
Task completed
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
Overall research
approach
Selected
experimental
research design
Yes
6

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Week 7:
NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Emerging Technologies and Innovation: Employee
Management System for ABC
WEEK NO: 7 DATE:
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Experimental setup
and architectural
design of the
system
Identify suitable
algorithm to use,
test them, and set
the experiment
with materials,
including
database. Search
for CV’s to use for
the experiment.
Design a suitable
architecture for
the system
Managed to set the
system and identify
suitable algorithms.
Obtained 100 CV’s
that would fit the
research
requirements.
Developed a
suitable
architecture for the
system
Tasks completed
successfully
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
Data mining
software change
Had tried developing
a data mining
algorithm without
success so changed
and used WEKA
software
Yes
7

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Week 8:
NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Emerging Technologies and Innovation: Employee
Management System for ABC
WEEK NO: 8 DATE:
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Obtain past reviews
of CV’s by
recruiters and
conduct
experiments
Obtain volunteers
to review some of
the identified CV’s
and rank them
and then conduct
the experiments
after using a
training set to
train the algorithm
Managed to get
volunteers to
review some of the
identified CV’s and
rank them and then
conducted the
experiments after
using a training set
to train the
algorithm
Task completed
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
Obtaining a
suitable training
data set
Got volunteers and
myself to evaluate
and rank CV’s
Yes
8

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Week 9:
NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Emerging Technologies and Innovation: Employee
Management System for ABC
WEEK NO: 9 DATE:
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Evaluate test
results to ensure
reliability and
validity
Repeat the
experiments and
obtain results, and
then undertake
correlation
analyses
Repeated the
experiments twice
and obtained
consistent results,
though the results
gave increasing
correlation
coefficients as
algorithm became
better
Tasks completed
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
Slow Internet issue
for web based
database system
Switched to faster
Internet connection
Yes
9

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Week 10:
NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Emerging Technologies and Innovation: Employee
Management System for ABC
WEEK NO: 10 DATE:
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Complete project
report and develop
reference list
To write a draft
report, and then
revise it to
generate final
report
Managed to write a
draft report and
complete a review
of whole report,
making changes
Task completed
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
None
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